WEBVTT - Body Odor: You Stink 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.880 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:07.600 It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you should know 0:00:08.200 --> 0:00:16.520 from House Stuff Works dot Com? Hey, and welcome to 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:20.680 the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, Charles W. Chuck, Bryan's with me. 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:24.680 If my my nose doesn't deceive me, I didn't do 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:30.240 my cheeks today, that's bad luck. Now, thank you. I 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:33.239 don't think that that's gonna save this episode, but it 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:36.760 will make it from being the worst, probably like the one, 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:40.680 the unreleased one. Yeah, in case of brake, we'll make 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:43.400 that when we retire, that will be our final episode, 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:46.280 will go out of the whimper. That's not bad idea. Yeah, 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:49.280 there's a lost episode everyone that only Jerry, Chuck and 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:52.720 I know about, in case of emergency breake Glass episode. 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:57.240 It is so bad that if if something happens, we 0:00:57.240 --> 0:01:02.440 we released the emergency episodes. Right. Yeah. That feels good 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:06.399 to have, does it? Yeah? Yeah, I guess so. I 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:10.600 feel like we have a margin of error, but of one. Um, 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:14.160 All right, Chuck, let's get this started, all right. You stink, 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:19.080 I stink, We all stink. Jerry doesn't stink. Jerry smells 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:23.120 like lilac. She does. Um, but the wow, you just 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:25.920 threw me off with that one. But your stink and 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:31.720 my stink are unique. Um, it's like, um uh it's 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:35.800 called an oder type, right, So an oder type is, 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:39.320 as I said, very unique. It's uh so unique that 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:43.000 there is research into figuring out how to identify somebody 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:45.880 through their odor. Yeah. I thought that was interesting. It's 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:51.120 like a smelly fingerprint. Yeah. Um. And no matter what 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:55.360 you do, it can't be masked, like you can't alter 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:59.840 it to where a machine that's designed to molecularly and 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:04.080 allies odors can't say oh it's Josh, Oh there's chuck. 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:07.600 And they're also they're really laying on the Polo cologne 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:12.160 today for some reason because this that was my man. 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:14.000 I remember the day I did you wear that bottle 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:15.880 of Polo? It is like the size of my torso 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:18.519 and I was so excited. I only wore one cologne 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:22.760 in my life for like two years in high school. Yeah, 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:28.280 Benetton Colors it was. But um, I haven't worn cologne 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:31.200 since literally I was seventeen. Yeah. I went through maybe 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:33.280 like three periods of my life where I worked cologne 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:35.200 for a little while, and then finally I'm like, I 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:39.519 don't wear cologne? What am I doing? Not? Not many 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:43.440 guys do anymore? Do they? Yeah? Really? At the gym 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:47.360 I go to, it's like get out of the sauna. Now, Wow, 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:50.000 it's bad. Yeah, when I told you, I think one 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:52.040 time when I lived in Arizona for a year. It 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:54.720 may be cultural, but those dudes work alogne like a 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:58.600 lot and hair jail, don't they. Um, I seem to 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:01.880 remember a fair amount of depitty do Yeah, Arizona is 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:08.600 like New Jersey West, So anyway, we all have very 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:11.840 distinct odor types, is what it's called. Oh and not 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:14.320 only can you not alter it to with the machine, 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:16.320 but if you're a mouse and you're trying to mask 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:20.400 your scent, other other mice can still see who you 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:24.480 are through their Yeah, I saw that that study. Should 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:27.240 we tell them that the technique they use, even though 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:32.400 I don't understand it involves tickling uh volatile b ocs 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:35.640 like you get in paint, volatile organic compounds also in 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:38.520 your body, which is just something that turns to gas 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:42.000 at what we consider room temperature exactly. They use they 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:45.480 can analyze uh, these scents in your sweat, saliva, and 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:52.280 urine using gas chromatography, mass spectrauma spectrometry. That's good stuff. 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:54.440 I'm glad you got hung up on that. Yeah. I 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:56.000 don't know how that works, so I didn't have enough 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:58.480 time to look into that. But that's what the Pentagon 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:00.800 and the Homeland Security are using to try and snip 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:08.400 out terrorists and also apparently to figure out if someone's 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:12.480 lying because there's different kinds of sweat. There's different kinds 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:16.640 of sweat glands. Um as you know, we've actually kind 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:18.560 of covered some of this. Remember we did what's the 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:22.240 difference between any perse print and deodorants? Again? Yes, okay, 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:24.039 I didn't think that was me. I mean you were 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:27.960 wildly impressed with Like I had a theory about, um, 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:32.640 deodorant stocks going up. Remember hormones and milk are making 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:36.200 kids hit puberty younger in my opinion. Uh, and then 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:40.160 with global warming, people are going to need more deodorants, 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:43.279 so theodorant stocks were the way to go. Um, that's 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:45.400 not as good as my early man theory. What happened? 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:49.520 They melted? So happened to the Neanderthals? These are the 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:52.400 old days. Yeah, I think that theodor one was like 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:54.360 one of the ten minutes shows, wasn't it. It It was 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:56.800 pretty quick, like really early. Yeah, but we're going to 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:59.159 revisit it because even you don't remember it, and you 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:01.760 were in it, I remember right now. Um, So we're 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:04.520 gonna talk about the different kinds of sweat clans because 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:07.080 we've also talked about this before and what can you 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:10.640 sweat colors? Yeah? Okay, but let's let's do it again. 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:14.080 You want to? That was the introduction. That's great, I 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:17.120 love it. Um. You know, they also have studies that 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:20.680 that say that little babies are more attracted to their 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:23.440 mothers obviously because of their scent and like early on 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:28.240 humans can sniff out their parents, which is and I 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:29.920 don't think it's a theory of mine. I think it's 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:32.400 pretty well established that if you're like a smoker, even 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:34.200 if you're like, oh I don't smoke around my kids, 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:37.400 they still sniff that stuff out and they are more 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:42.159 likely to smoke later on because of that. Is that true? Yeah? 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:45.119 Oh yeah, children of smokers are way more likely to smoke. 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:49.880 I know in studies of um babies born eyeless and 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:53.719 as worms, they will like they'll sniff their parents out 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:55.640 and like just wiggle over toward them even though they 0:05:55.680 --> 0:06:00.600 can't see usually can't hear. It's a neat study. Um, 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:04.279 there's a lot of stuff in here like that. Um, 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:07.000 so let's talk about the different kinds of sweat glands. 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:10.840 You got echrone glands. Yeah, those are my favorite, same 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:14.240 here because they cool me off. Yeah, they're innocuous. They 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:18.320 basically just secrete water and electrolytes, which if you've seen 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:24.360 um idiocracy, you know how important electrolytes are. Um and yeah, 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:28.280 it's used to regulate body temperature. Your hypothalamus says, hey, 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:30.520 you're getting a little warm here. Let's get rid of 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:35.160 this perspiration. The water, the the the water and electrolytes 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:38.559 on your skin. When they evaporate, it's going to cool 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:41.159 you down. And I love it. And sweat doesn't stink. 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:43.919 I think we've pointed that out before, but it bears repeating. 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:47.080 The sweat itself is not smelly. And I like saying 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:50.840 that because for obvious reasons, it's well established that I'm 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:53.760 a sweaty guy. But I'm not a smelly guy. No, 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:56.040 you really aren't. I was thinking about this. I'm like, 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:58.640 I was. I was thinking about you as I was 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:02.159 researching this, and I was like, you know, Chuck doesn't smell. 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:05.240 I've never I've never smelled chuck. And I've been around 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:08.080 you when you're sweating. I've been around you when you 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:13.560 were wearing nothing but like shorts and a Hawks jersey sweating. Sah, well, 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:15.720 you better be sweating if you're wearing that. Yeah, that's 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:19.360 because I take exactly, That's because I take care of 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:21.320 myself and do all the things that we're gonna talk about, 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:26.360 like bathing. Yes, So in ekorne sweat um, there's nothing 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:29.400 to smell. Electro LTEs don't smell in the other sweat 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:31.720 gland and ecorn sweat glands are found all over your body. 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:36.200 The other sweat glands epicrine like sweat glands, they don't 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:38.400 smell either. I know what you're saying. Like that, you 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:40.720 you produce sweat, but it has a lot more than 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:46.640 just water and electrolytes chuck. Anytime a cell excretes waste, 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:52.000 poop something out, or is destroyed through maybe autolycens or whatever, 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:57.720 there's a lot of little um cellular detrius and that 0:07:57.760 --> 0:07:59.760 stuff has to leave the body because you don't want 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:01.200 it to build up. You want to get rid of 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:06.880 your broken up dead cells, and they enter secretory cells 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:11.440 in the skin and hike along with your sweat. So 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:17.440 the apricrine sweat is a means of disposal, cellular detritus 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:22.880 disposal in your body. But even that doesn't smell. Yeah, 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:26.240 what produces the smell? Uh well, And we did cover 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:30.400 this before, but it is bacteria that basically eats those 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:36.920 proteins that we sweat out and then they poop them out. Essentially, 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:40.760 they poop out fatty acids that stink. That's the smell. 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:44.599 It's not us, it's the local flora, the bacteria. I 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:47.120 don't even like the word flora, I know, and it 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:50.240 doesn't even make sense because bacteria aren't plants, and even 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:55.800 if they were plants, um flora apparently refers to multicellular plants. Yeah, 0:08:56.840 --> 0:09:02.880 but they call local flora bacteria's local flora um and 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:06.760 a little protozoa on your body, those are called fauna 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:11.319 local fauna. And I can't figure out why. Uh well, 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:14.120 I bet the answers out there. I looked, man, really, Yeah, 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:17.080 if anybody knows that this is the one I'd really 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:19.560 like to know from this episode. Well, what we do 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:23.960 know is that these nasty applecrine glands are found in 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:27.680 some pretty unfortunate places like you're growing or you're growing 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:34.640 and your armpits um, your what is it the and 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:38.920 your hands and your feet, So that's where you're gonna 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:43.520 smell um in your feet. Interestingly, the reason they don't 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:46.000 smell quite like your armpits is because they also produce 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:51.200 fungus in addition to the bacteria pooping out batty acids. Yeah, 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:52.800 and that's why your footot is going to be a 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:55.280 little different. It's not really coincidence that, like all of 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:58.520 these places are hairy, well except for your hands. Yeah, 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:00.760 and I guess the soles of your feet, but your 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:05.959 armpits and your groin are hairy. I'm five years old, 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:12.640 loves naturally they're hairy. Um, and uh, when we wear shoes, 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:16.440 were in socks whatever. Where we are providing like these 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:19.680 great places for bacteria to thrive and eat the stuff 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:24.280 to their hearts content. But it takes about an hour apparently. Yeah, 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:27.599 that's a good news. So when you start sweating apricrine 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:32.160 cell detrius through your armpits um, you it takes about 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:35.040 an hour for the local bacteria to digest. I mean 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:37.280 they'll eat it immediately, but then they lay around, have 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:40.960 they wake up and they're like, I got a poop 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:44.000 and they poop and then you start smelling. Um the 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:47.320 other gross thing, and there will be many gross things, 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:50.960 but to me, one of the gross things is the 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:54.199 the ekron glands secrete kind of you know, clear liquid, 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:58.280 but the apicrin glands excrete liquid that can be thicker 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:02.720 and milky and hello, which is why if you've ever 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:06.760 had the old mustard stains on the undershirt, which are 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:10.000 really unsightly they are, that means it's time to get 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:14.199 rid of that undershirt, or if you're like me, then 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:18.439 it's time to keep wearing it until it's crunchy. Yes, 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:21.280 and I know the crunch you're talking about. Yeah, I 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:24.080 think that's the deodorant as well, I hope, so in 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:29.719 combination with the milky yellowish secretions. Yeah, uh yeah, so 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:32.280 that that's the gross stuff. That's where your pit stains 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:35.080 come from. UM and the smell. Also one of the 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:39.280 big guys of the smell world as far as the 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:43.240 waste products that the local flora are producing is um 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:49.199 E three methyl two hexanoic acid. That's what's making you smell, friends, 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:53.000 that's the one. It's one of. And the bacteria that's 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:57.480 producing this are called microcoxie or staphylocoxie. And um, like 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:01.480 I said, this is where they love living in your pits. Um, 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:03.880 And I don't know if like they live in our armpits, 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:09.079 like over time they've become attracted to human armpits the revolution, 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:10.840 like they're like, oh, well this is where we eat, 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:14.360 so we live here. Um. And they never learned you 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:16.800 should never poop where you eat. They do the whole 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:21.199 gam but you know, um, or poop where you live? Um, 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:23.960 but it's poop where you eat. I think it's both, 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:29.640 is it? Yeah? Okay? Um? I wonder if like they 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:31.839 were attracted to humans over time, because I mean, are 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:34.760 we born with these things in our under arms? I 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:36.559 don't know how do we pick them up? How? How 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:38.199 soon after birth do we pick them up? Well, I 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:41.840 don't think we're born because newborn babies don't have the 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:47.240 ap aprican sweat. So that's why little babies smell delicious. 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:51.000 And unless they're pooping, which is like an ungodly thing 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:56.839 such what is wrong with babies? So yes, you're right, Um, 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:59.640 we we aren't born with apricream glance. We develop them 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:03.640 around puberty. You probably won't start the body out or 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:06.400 of the b o um as my mom always called it, 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:10.880 until until puberty, till your teen years, and that's when 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:14.680 you start getting stinky and um. So it's not just 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:19.040 there's not just a difference between little kids, between teens 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:26.120 and tweens, right, tweens on stink teen stink um. Supposedly 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:32.640 there's a distinction among um races. This is highly controversial, 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:36.720 is it? Yes, it's not nearly as cavalier as it 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:40.520 might seem in this article. You can't just say like, oh, well, 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:47.840 Asians are the least stinky um. There's there's supposedly here's 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:50.679 the problem. Okay, here's the problem that the field of 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:56.080 anthropology has with this. It's possible that there are differences 0:13:56.120 --> 0:14:00.680 among among races, but you can break it, don't even further? 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:03.040 Is it um? Is? Is it food based? Is a 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:06.360 diet based? Like? Is it? So if you are in 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:11.560 northern India you're eating less curry in southern India India 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:16.400 or vice versa. I can't whatever, So are all Indians? 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:20.840 Did all Indians share a similar smell that's more pungent 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:27.240 than say Europeans. The it you can't and even within that, 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:29.600 it's like, how many vegetarians are there that hate curry 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:32.160 in India? Well, the reason you point out curry, we 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:34.560 should point out is because that's mentioned specifically in the 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:39.680 article as one of the more highly um pungent foods 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:43.720 that will eventually come out in your sweat exactly like garlic. Right. Um. 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:46.720 But the the I guess the point is is, um, 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:51.360 when you differentiate among people, whether it's smell, especially if 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:55.960 something is unpleasant as body odor, then you are you're 0:14:56.280 --> 0:15:00.640 creating a disparity. You're propagating the possibility of racist stattitudes 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:03.040 because if this person is different from me and how 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:06.120 we smell, how else is that person different? You know, 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:08.600 maybe I don't really like that person. Well it's not 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:10.440 even endorsement. Well you just well you have to be 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:12.920 careful with Plus the other problem is is most of 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:16.680 the research that that is cited um these days for 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:21.080 difference among races and body odor was last compiled in 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:24.560 like the nineteen thirties. And then also for example, like 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:28.720 Asians have fewer axillary glands, do they? I don't know 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:30.760 when's the last time anyone checked. And then some of 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:36.480 the other old data suggests that half and estimated half 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:39.360 of Koreans don't even have axillary glands, so they couldn't 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:42.040 even sweat if they tried. You know, you see the point. 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:45.760 So you're saying it's just hinky data, it's old data, 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:48.600 and you're not supposed to cite data over ten years old. Well, 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:51.240 why don't we just as a as a show, as 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:54.800 a part of the public specter, say, some people stink 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:58.600 some and some people don't. Yeah, people are people, Some 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:02.360 stink somet' so why should it a be jerry like 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:07.360 that one she saw her that. Um, men definitely, uh 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:11.280 are are stinkier than women in general. We don't mind 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:13.840 a little sexism, especially when we're throwing it on ourselves 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:16.960 as stinky men. But it's not sexism because it's true 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:20.840 and it's not. I mean, there's no there's no disparaging 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:23.520 that comes along with that. That's true. Um. But and 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:25.800 this is actually backed up by some science. We have 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:29.560 more testosterone, which is gonna up your production of the 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:33.160 apricree sweat. I'm just gonna lead to stinkiness. Um. Another 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:37.680 theory is that women are more efficient regulators of their 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:40.840 body temperature because they have less core heat going on 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:45.120 because less muscle and fat than us dudes. And conversely, 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:47.560 you can make the case that men are more efficient 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:51.880 at um cooling there themselves. Yet true because women don't 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:54.160 just tell sweat as much. And I thought this was 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:56.840 really interesting, and so did Emily because I was throwing 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:59.920 some stuff at her today while I was researching when 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:04.040 men actually need one degree higher body temperature in order 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:06.719 to start sweating to begin with. Yeah, I thought that 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:10.000 was interesting and must be significant. I found it sounding 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:14.080 hypothesis that that face unners attached to that. That's that 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:17.879 women have less body fluid than men and so have 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:21.159 evolved to sweat less. And so that would be the 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:24.000 mechanism that that that evolution is taken the form of 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:27.520 well lucky ladies, is what I say. But what's interesting 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:29.679 is no, because if you are working out and your 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:34.680 lady you suffer, you stay hotter longer, you get hotter. Um. 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:37.560 And there's a study in Japan of all places, because 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:40.960 they can't even sweat, you know, um that where they 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:45.080 found that um women could train themselves just by working 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:48.320 out a bunch like forming a workout routine over time 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:52.560 to start sweating earlier, um than women who were just 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:55.720 like working out for the first time got you. Yeah, well, 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:58.000 since you brought up Japan, this is a sidebar, but 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.919 we'll throw it in there. Um. And I thought this 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:03.640 is interesting. Apparently they take their their sweating and their 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:06.520 stink pretty seriously over there, because they have a couple 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:11.520 of interesting products. One company, um Aoki, has developed a 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:17.280 deodorant suit that uses uh fabric with silver ions impregnated 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:20.480 in it to fight off this bacteria just by wearing 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:22.920 it right. And then they think they have determined. A 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:28.640 cosmetic company thinks they have found the fatty acid responsible 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:32.680 for old people smell, which I thought was really mean 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:36.320 to say. And uh, no, Neil is the fatty acid. 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:39.840 And in Japan they call old people smell carry issue 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:44.680 and they are trying to combat that. And I guess 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:46.840 grandkids all over the world they're just gonna be like 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:50.520 spraying their grandparents when they walk in or when you 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:55.880 inherit the house, you just walk around and spray carry issue. Uh. 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:58.360 It's interesting though. I went over to my mom's last 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:02.199 night and I realized that her home that it's not 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:03.760 the house I grew up in. This is She's been 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:06.919 there for a while though, um, probably fifteen years. It 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:09.560 smells like my grandparents house that I went through growing 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:12.760 up in Tennessee. That's interesting, like a lot like it, 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:15.160 And I don't know. I mean, it's gotta have something 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:18.480 to do with heredity or maybe products or furniture that 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:20.520 you have some of their stuff, do it. Odor types 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:24.280 are genetically um based, Yeah, so, I mean it would 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:27.600 make sense that your mom inherited some of her ODO 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:32.239 type from her parents. It's what. It was very comforting though. 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:34.920 I was like, wow, oh yeah, man, I'll bet granddaddy'suse 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:37.960 you unless your grandparents stunk like ox and I'm sure 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:41.320 it's very comforting even more were abusive and hated my guts. 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:45.880 You're like the scent of Guardinia makes you like drop 0:19:45.880 --> 0:19:48.199 into the fetal position. You never hear that of like 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:51.160 abusive grandparents. That's like, that would be the worst thing ever. 0:19:52.760 --> 0:19:55.200 I'm sure there are some you gotta be out there, yeah, yeah, 0:19:55.240 --> 0:20:00.000 but you don't hear about it much. Thank god, thank god, everybody. 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:02.160 It keeps that secret. I've been around some mean old 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:06.360 people though, so you know what, everyone has that capacity. 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:11.399 It's true, and that's why I quit boy Scouts and protest. 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:13.640 Oh no, I just didn't like the idea of respecting 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:16.600 your elders. No matter what. I was like, no has 0:20:16.640 --> 0:20:21.639 to earn respect. Agreed, Thank you. Alright, I finally vindicated 0:20:21.680 --> 0:20:26.600 after all these years. Um. We did talk about this 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:31.840 in another podcast about women able to pick up um. 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:33.840 I think when we talked about it before, it was 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:36.560 a study about women able to pick up clues through 0:20:36.600 --> 0:20:39.439 scent about whether or not someone's a good reproductive partner. 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:43.960 Like that there they would have a different immune system 0:20:44.000 --> 0:20:47.960 than you together in form of super baby, definitely one 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:52.560 that wasn't born without eyes with a worm like body. UM. 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:56.119 We also kind of debunked that, yeah were The research 0:20:56.160 --> 0:20:58.159 we found is that like we don't even have the 0:20:58.200 --> 0:21:02.000 capacity to um detect for modains any longer, most most 0:21:02.080 --> 0:21:05.359 humans don't. So like that whole idea is a little um. 0:21:06.760 --> 0:21:09.439 There was there was it's it's hit or miss, Like 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:12.679 there's some studies that suggested, yes, this is true, others 0:21:12.680 --> 0:21:16.119 that didn't. If you read the um the release though 0:21:16.320 --> 0:21:21.040 on this study that this guy is talking about. Yeah, 0:21:21.080 --> 0:21:23.720 the guy just like the researchers just totally leapt to 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:28.960 a conclusion. They were like women can differentiate, Like it's 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:34.800 tougher to mask um a man's odor to a woman 0:21:36.200 --> 0:21:42.040 and he basically said, ergo, women can detect body odor better, 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:45.199 which means that they must be detecting like something like 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:49.160 immune system robustness or something. It was like, where did 0:21:49.160 --> 0:21:53.000 you get this extra stuff? You know, it's drive me crazy. 0:21:53.040 --> 0:21:57.560 I'm on a tirade today. Research. Yeah, I'm sorry, everyone, 0:21:57.600 --> 0:22:00.119 I'm I'm very sorry. Well, speaking of that leads us 0:22:00.200 --> 0:22:04.240 right into this article. Actually, we're we like to point 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:06.919 out when our own articles aren't quite up to snuff. 0:22:07.440 --> 0:22:09.639 And there were a few interesting things and it's a 0:22:09.680 --> 0:22:11.840 shame that we can't find verification on these, because I 0:22:11.840 --> 0:22:14.960 thought it was interesting, really interesting. Um. A tribe in 0:22:15.000 --> 0:22:18.640 New Guinea says goodbye to each other by rubbing each 0:22:18.640 --> 0:22:21.480 other's armpits before they leave, and so you can keep 0:22:21.520 --> 0:22:24.000 a little piece of the other person to sniff. That 0:22:24.040 --> 0:22:26.080 was really sweet. It's not a bit gross. And you 0:22:26.119 --> 0:22:29.280 said that it might be bunk like I found. I 0:22:29.320 --> 0:22:31.600 found virtually no support for this, and everything I found 0:22:31.680 --> 0:22:36.200 was like not a reliable thing. Um. And then Austrian tyrol, 0:22:36.359 --> 0:22:41.240 which is a very specific place to bus about, but um, 0:22:41.400 --> 0:22:45.800 they supposedly men would dance with handkerchiefs in there tucked 0:22:45.880 --> 0:22:48.960 under their arms and their armpits, and I guess, work 0:22:49.040 --> 0:22:51.280 up a real sweat, and then be like you and 0:22:51.359 --> 0:22:53.800 point to the girl he was going for and wave 0:22:53.880 --> 0:22:56.600 the handkerchief under and knows she would swoon, and they 0:22:56.640 --> 0:23:00.400 get married and have babies in that order. Didn't find 0:23:00.440 --> 0:23:03.320 verification for that either, right, No, same same thing. But 0:23:03.359 --> 0:23:05.560 I found even less for that. What about the last one? 0:23:05.640 --> 0:23:08.320 This one appears to be true, all right. I misinterpreted 0:23:08.359 --> 0:23:10.960 this because I told Emily this one this morning that 0:23:11.400 --> 0:23:15.600 in Elizabethan times they would soak peeled apples in their 0:23:15.720 --> 0:23:19.120 armpits sweat and give them to their lover when they parted, 0:23:19.760 --> 0:23:22.280 and I, for some reason, took the lead to mean 0:23:22.320 --> 0:23:24.200 that they would eat them, and I thought it was 0:23:24.240 --> 0:23:27.040 a grossest thing I ever heard. And Emily was like, no, 0:23:27.080 --> 0:23:28.399 I don't think they eat them. I think they just 0:23:28.520 --> 0:23:31.600 keep them. But they're they're called love apples, by the way, 0:23:32.320 --> 0:23:36.080 Well that's not what I call love apples. What do 0:23:36.119 --> 0:23:39.200 you call love apples? Apples that you know you give 0:23:39.280 --> 0:23:43.879 to the teacher on their desk? Yuh, because it seems 0:23:43.880 --> 0:23:46.480 odd that's an apple for the teacher's not love love 0:23:46.480 --> 0:23:49.119 apples because you love your teacher. Huh Um, were you 0:23:49.200 --> 0:23:53.320 home schooled by your mom? Wasn't? Uh, but my dad 0:23:53.359 --> 0:23:58.520 was my principle. Um, I don't know. Did they eat them? 0:23:58.560 --> 0:24:01.760 I'm sure some sick ate them. And how the oscar 0:24:01.800 --> 0:24:04.639 wilde ate them? How did they collect enough? How do 0:24:04.720 --> 0:24:07.240 they collect enough underarmed sweat to soak them? Is what 0:24:07.280 --> 0:24:09.040