The impact of olfactory and gustatory perception on metabolic homeostasis in obese patients

Obesity is currently a major global public health problem. As result, in recent decades there has been growing interest studying the impact of this disease on functioning central nervous system. One least understood aspects that obesity sensory systems.The olfactory and gustatory systems are closely related to various vital functions, such as nocifensors activation, stimulation digestive reflexes. In addition, these known play an important role mechanisms food consumption through regulation appetite satiety, influencing choice and, therefore, they involved development obesity. A number clinical studies have shown obese patients more likely suffer from hyposmia compared lean people same age.The reasons why relationship exists remain largely unclear. The aim review assess available data topic identify new promising areas for further research. was conducted PubMed databases 2017–2023.