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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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Post by soco »

goda90 wrote: post #27
lazide wrote: 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.

I had a work mate who also said he wouldn't need to shower because he doesn't stink. Boy was he stinking, lucky for us he left very quickly. Since then I treat all the arguments "but I don't stink" with a solid grain of salt.

Re: Foods that make you smell more attractive

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Post by amelius »

IncreasePosts wrote: post #32
amelius wrote: post #21

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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 ab…

Most vegans I know consume a lot of nuts.

Re: Foods that make you smell more attractive

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Post by NaomiLehman »

goda90 wrote: post #25
sixtyj wrote: post #22

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

If I recall correctly, he was attributing it to his testosterone levels, which he was measuring. But in the book he also talked about garlic being part of his weight loss supplements, which this article mentions impacts attractiveness too.

it's all very scientific.

Re: Foods that make you smell more attractive

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Post by NaomiLehman »

downut wrote: post #20

I used all of the plants discussed, interesting meats like various types of game, lamb, offal, turtles, frogs, raw oysters, all shellfish in general, and a whole bunch of fermented foods including every kind of cheese, and all the curries, to filter out the squeamish during the partner search. 45 years later I think the strategy has proved itself spectacularly. During the pregnancy all that stuff was in the mix every…

What's happening here?

Re: Foods that make you smell more attractive

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Post by lazide »

burnt-resistor wrote: post #49
lazide wrote: post #37

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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.

Aluminum-based antiperspirants, commonly called "deodorants" as a misnomer, do no such thing. Their purpose is to prevent sweating by sealing sweat gland pores. Many are dual action deodorant-antiperspirants but not that much of the former.

They have very strong antimicrobial action - the same aluminum salts are very strongly antimicrobial.

Re: Foods that make you smell more attractive

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Post by zoklet-enjoyer »

amelius wrote: post #53
IncreasePosts wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ab…

Most vegans I know consume a lot of nuts.

I eat a lot of peanuts/peanut butter, cashews, tofu

Re: Foods that make you smell more attractive

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Post by devchix »

zorobo wrote: post #38

I love cumin (the spice) but stopped having it as it makes my sweat smell bad.

Cumin is an olfactory note in perfumery. When well-paired it adds a lovely and unusual note of spice. Example: The Different Company Rose Poivrée was created by Jean-Claude Ellena, the in-house perfumer for Hermes before the current one. It has notes of coriander and cumin, subtle but distinctively there. If you like it, you like it. Unfortunately for me, after a while it starts smelling like a stinking armpit. Indole is another compound use in perfumery, at intense concentration it smells like poop.
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