Consuming modest amounts of alcohol can boost your sense of smell a new study has claimed. However drinking too much can lead to a significant reduction in sense of smell researchers said. Yaara Endevelt of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot Israel and her colleagues investigated whether drinking alcohol - known to lower inhibitory signals in the brain - affected the sense of smell. In one experiment 20 volunteers were asked to smell three different liquids. Two were a mixture of the same six odours the third contained a similar mixture with one odour replaced. Each volunteer was given
