Posted by Korling 17 hours ago
"High-dose ascorbic acid increases intercourse frequency and improves mood: a randomized controlled clinical trial"
> The odour of the men on meat-free diets was on average rated as more attractive, more pleasant and less intense.
The article goes on to say:
"Fish and beans, for instance, can cause body odour because they're filled with trimethylamine, a very strong-smelling compound. There's even a health condition, called trimethylaminuria – also known as "fish odour syndrome" – which arises when the body can't turn trimethylamine into a non-smelly compound, says Beeson. "This can lead to a strong body odour," she says"
She said that it wasn't bad, but it was certainly odd. I stopped eating it (which is good for me, anyway), and I returned to my usual stinky self.
> "To our surprise, those who were eating meat smelled slightly worse than when they were not eating meat," says Havlíček.
My guess would be non-adapted gut microbiome.
Imagine working at the office and whenever one of your co-workers comes up to talk to you he always sniffs incredibly deeply inbetween sentences.
(Although maybe not their breath. Last time I was in Japan I tried an iekei ramen place and smelled so much like garlic to myself I was too embarrassed to go outside for the next day or two.)
IIRC the lingering curry cooking smell is from fenugreek.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/dec/24/d...
This is the first study on human axillary odour to sample a large number of subjects, and our findings are relevant to understanding the chemical nature of human odour, and efforts to design electronic sensors (e-nose) for biometric fingerprinting and disease diagnoses.
~ https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rsif.2006...
Any updates on how that's panned out in the past decade; robustness in the face of diet change, application in the field, overt or covert, marketing sales of magicTech to LEO adjacent bodies, etc. ?
Anyway, the point I want to make is that when I am stressed or nervous I definitely find my sweat smells different (and bad). Unless it’s just some heightened awareness and I actually always smell that way but don’t notice, I’m pretty sure there is a real causal relationship.