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Foods that make you smell more attractive

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Re: Foods that make you smell more attractive

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It could also just be survivorship bias - the girls who found you repulsive never became your girlfriend in the first place to comment on your scent.

No you should read the article. The effect of eating meat on odour has been researched.

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Re: Foods that make you smell more attractive

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post #21

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It could also just be survivorship bias - the girls who found you repulsive never became your girlfriend in the first place to comment on your scent.

No you should read the article. The effect of eating meat on odour has been researched.

The article says that meat diet people smelled worse than'non-meat diet, but it also said "But the same study suggests that people consuming diets with a little bit of fat, meat, egg, and tofu intake were also associated with more pleasant-smelling sweat. Carb-heavy diets produced the least sexy of scents.".

A lot of the vegans I know (a lot! I live in boulder) have a carb heavy diet.

Any way. The point isn't even about diet because diet is just one factor in body scent.

Re: Foods that make you smell more attractive

#33
post #22

In 4-Hour Chef, Tim Ferris mentions eating steaks from grass-fed cows… He became almost magnetic for women.

> Another study of adult men from 2006 by Havlíček's team can offer insights about whether meat makes us more attractive. The scientists looked at 30 men who were either eating a meat or non-meat diet for two weeks. Women rated their scent for their pleasantness, attractiveness, masculinity and intensity. The odour of the men on meat-free diets was on average rated as more attractive, more pleasant and less intense.…

The people in the study probably ate lower-quality generic meat. Perhaps the hormones (artificial and naturally-produced from stress) caused them to smell bad, not the meat itself. Although I’m skeptical there’s anything magical in grass-fed beef that “magnetizes” women more than a good vegan diet.

Re: Foods that make you smell more attractive

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post #29

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I've definitely had stressful days at work where I don't recall any feeling of being too warm, but I find my armpits, especially on my dominate arm, has a very rancid sweat smell that's different than if I were outside on a hot day or exercising.

Yes that’s exactly how I would characterize it

You may be interested to know that your sweat glands come in two distinct types: Eccrine for thermoregulation and Apocrine for the wild mess of emotions we experience.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/eccrine-glands

Re: Foods that make you smell more attractive

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post #22

In 4-Hour Chef, Tim Ferris mentions eating steaks from grass-fed cows… He became almost magnetic for women.

> Another study of adult men from 2006 by Havlíček's team can offer insights about whether meat makes us more attractive. The scientists looked at 30 men who were either eating a meat or non-meat diet for two weeks. Women rated their scent for their pleasantness, attractiveness, masculinity and intensity. The odour of the men on meat-free diets was on average rated as more attractive, more pleasant and less intense.…

The book was exploring some about the nature of the meat eaten, particularly the fatty acid makeup. Tim Ferris was exploring grass fed beef against other meat, not meat against no meat. It could be some meat is better than others for scent?

Re: Foods that make you smell more attractive

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post #27
post #17

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Sweating releases whatever is in your sweat glands - which builds up. If you sweat a lot really fast, it even ‘washes’ them out in a sense. Sweat glands are under the skin, and a shower doesn’t touch them.

I've heard anecdotes that some athletes find they don't even need deodorant because they sweat so much during practice that it's nearly odorless.

Deodorant is also for when that sweat sits and things grow in it.

If they get cleaned up after their workouts, then yeah they probably don’t need it so much when actually working out.

Sitting in the cab/at home afterwards though will get a bit rank without it.

Re: Foods that make you smell more attractive

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post #35
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Some ammunition for vegans: > The odour of the men on meat-free diets was on average rated as more attractive, more pleasant and less intense.

…and vegetarians, and pescatarians…

> and pescatarians

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"

Re: Foods that make you smell more attractive

#40
post #24

All of my girlfriends have mentioned being attracted to my scent. I always assumed it was a combination of pheromones and a vegan diet.

Women sense your power, and they seek the life essence.

Never drink a café half/half, never eat gelato with milk, and never eat chicken parm. Otherwise you'll lose your powers after the third strike!
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