My grandmother is from Ethiopia, and she has no body odor either. She doesn’t use deodorant or any perfume. She just doesn’t have odor for some reason. We don’t know why and not even she knows. She’s also very old but can run and exercise and has no illnesses either. She’s the only one in the senior citizen building with no illnesses and is perfectly healthy. She says it’s because she doesn’t take all the drugs and medicines that doctors have and she eats pure food and drinks milk straight from the source-She ate and drank everything fresh when she was young so she developed strong bones and muscles. That really blessed her later on
Western medicine wasn't invented to decrease lifespan. In the past 200 years, lifespans have increased 2x because of medical advancements. Your grandma would definitely benefit with medicines if she has any deficiencies.
@@YariP94 I agree, genetics & maybe her environment growing up. Even a stressful upbringing puts you at a much higher risk for autoimmune disease as an adult.
@@ffnovice7Are you BO free if you don’t wear deodorant, though? Because I don’t smell of BO if I use deodorant, but I’m obviously capable of having BO because I have to wear deodorant every day to prevent it. I also shower almost every day because I just feel gross if I don’t.
Mother Nature gave the odor-free glitch. So some Asian went extra heavy on fried garlic dishes. The kind of cooking that just radiates for hours on end!
@@VerminaeSupremacy it's a great ingredient. You just need to realize if you're heading into public, eating a ton of it on a hot summer day is very offensive to anyone who hasn't eaten it. If you're in Korea, where many dishes contain it, the public has probably eaten it and no one will smell it from you. It's all different in US. P. S. Other cuisines can go heavy with garlic too, like Italian.
Half Asian people probably mostly have body odor because the BO version of the gene is a “gain of function”. People with the low-BO gene have a defective version of the gene and don’t produce the fatty acids. So if you inherit both versions of the gene you end up producing the fatty acids and getting BO.
I have dry ear wax and no body odor. ❤ but I personally don't believe anyone is 100% free of smelling bad. Bad hygiene can make you smell bad even if you don't sweat 😂
*As an East Asian with dry earwax, I will debunk that when it builds up (because I'm terrible at cleaning consistently), it **_does_** smell bad... just not as bad as the wet earwax*
I didnt learn about wet ear wax until I saw a non-asian friend pulled out some crusty earbuds. I did not know earwax can be gooey and have color's ranging from orange to black. I always thought everyone have dry flaky pale yellow earwax lol
Am I the only one who only stinks when I've endured *extreme* stress..? Im talking about that moment of realization that your life is about to be or is being turned upside down in a the worst way kind of stress. Not I have to meet a deadline stress.
How much to not shove aluminum and even worse things in my glands. It freaks me out how much chemicals I have to shove on my armpits, just not to smell. How does the major types of diets impacts this? Paleo, non processed omnivore, vegan,processed (garabage can) omnivores, vegetarians and keto. I have switched diets and noticed lots of fruits and less dairy help me a little. vegetarian did help at times. certain fatty foods seemed to lower the odor/more tolerable. Anyone have personal research done over many months or years on diets impact on BO?
@@EdvardBocMunch I switched to keto for 6 months. 15 to 30g carbs and 15 to 20g sugar per day from mainly veg and some fruit. Nothing processed. No grains/bread. Lots of meat, cheese, butter. Definitely noticed less body oder overall, poops for sure drastically changed in smell. Try washing underarms with panoxyl. Leave it in for the indicated about of time, then dab on glycolic acid toner after air drying. This also really helps reduce underarm oder. Try it out.
Ya my sweat glands are defective ( don't always work )and one of my brothers would have to go to the doctor's to have his ear wax removed because it would be hard as rocks and youngest brother all but lost his hearing because his ears didn't self clean the right way
I hardly ever use deodorant. My armpits never have a strong smell. They will definitely get a slight odor but only after wearing the same shirt a couple days in a row that I even notice it most of the times. I feel like I am almost in between because my earwax is usually dry but sometimes a little moist. Sometimes I can feel the ear wax just fall out of my ear. I read about this years ago and it makes sense. And sorry to offend anyone but there are races that technically stink more
I have dry earwax, and I can go for weeks and not stink. I wash my pits because they feel uncomfortable from too much salty sweat. The salt gets irritating, making my skin burn. I wear antiperspirant, not deodorant, because I hate the sweating. Not because my pits stink. I only need to use the antiperspirant once a month. I bathe less often than others because I'm disabled due to a neck injury, and taking a shower is a non-trivial exercise. Those of you that can just jump in the shower, get clean in 3 minutes, then hop out having experienced no more effort than using an ATM, you're the ones who made a daily shower or bath a social norm. For me, that's like a day of hauling wheelbarrows full of clay, racked with pain every minute. I have to use a slower seat because it's too painful to stand and take a shower so often.
For what it's worth, I'm one stranger who doesn't recoil if you say that you don't shower often! My husband is the same way and genuinely smells good to me c:
For what it’s worth, it sounds like you’ve not had an easy go of things and thank you for sharing some of your story 🙌🏽 I’ll try to be more mindful and grateful of something I normally take forgranted. And for what it is worth, my apocrine glands be stankyyyy 😂
@thegingerrunner9448 It may resonate with certain ppl for a plethora of reasons. I don't think shame or blame should be directed to those who have it easier, but more thought can go towards those who do find it more difficult to keep up with societal "expectations"/norms.
Oh my gosh, i just remembered! Where i am, it is often said that if you dip a baby in bat blood then they will not grow hair in the area that's dipped! (Or pat with a cloth or something, since dipping makes it feel so wasteful 😅) I really want to know what's with that theory! Have you ever heard of it @DrKaran?
This is crazy. My fiance is Asian (Chinese) and doesn't wear deodorant. I've always wondered why she doesn't smell, even after being out all day. Very cool fact! Unfortunately for me, i don't have that lol. If i don't wear deodorant, the world suffers.
Im scottish and I have this. My grandmother too. Strangely I still used antiperspirant for years because it was just what you did i guess? Havent used it for 15 years now though.
Hubby belonged to the unfortunate 25% with wet earwax and is super Jomon and many other instances. But he's a flusher and turns red with the first gulp of alcohol. I think dairy is okay though he is no big fan of it. Except in coffee perhaps.
For as long as I’ve known my partner, he’s almost never stank even after 2 days in hot weather. His ears are flakey and until now we know why! 😱 he also suffers with Seborrheic dermatitis on his scalp and I’d always thought the ears and scalp issue were related. Obviously not. Thank you for educating us all 😘
Can this gene show mosaicism? As it turns out, my right armpit doesn't smell and right ear has flaky earwax while the armpit and ear in the left are stinky.
He has it’s essentially a branch of the vagus nerve which also innervates the throat and is responsible for gag reflex or cough. When stimulated in the ear it thinks u got something in ur throat
@@SaheeliRai yea not everyone has this reflex and some ppl instead have a “eargasm” where they have a pleasant feeling from sticking things in their ear
I feel like he might have done a video on that unless I'm thinking of someone else. I cough and almost gag when I clean one of my ears in particular. It drives me crazy.
How much to not shove aluminum and even worse things in my glands. It freaks me out how much chemicals I have to shove on my armpits, just not to smell. How does the major types of diets impacts this? Paleo, non processed omnivore, vegan,processed (garabage can) omnivores, vegetarians and keto. I have switched diets and noticed lots of fruits and less dairy help me a little. vegetarian did help at times. certain fatty foods seemed to lower the odor/more tolerable. Anyone have personal research done over many months or years on diets impact on BO?
I have both dry and wet ear wax, though it is mostly dry and I am digging it out of my ear constantly all day. I noticed that my BO is very mild, if I have any at all, but usually I don't stink no matter how much I sweet. Not sure if this has to do with the gene or not. When I got a genetic test kit done, it came back with about 7% southeast asian ancestory. I wonder if I got some good genes like the low/no body odor gene. LOL.
Unfortunately, it’s not all Asians. If only deodorant were more widely used in China, especially among teenage boys, my classroom would be a less stinky place. Also, there was a surgery that was common 30-40 years ago where people had sweat glands removed from their armpits. It seems to have stopped some time after that because almost everyone I have dated who is in their 40s had the surgery, but people in their 20s and 30s don’t seem to have had it.
i used to have dry earwax as a kid, and at somepoint in my teens, i started getting waxy earwax. how is that possible? didn't have a BO issue through all this though.
I'm from south east asia. my cousins would clean each other's ears. I was embarrased to let anyone clean my ears bc I'm the only one who has wet earwax they call it "luga" I always thought it's because I have constant mucus in my sinus.
What would be the cause for someone to not have stinky BO (I’m a Mum to two young boys, a dancer [swing, etc., so it’s not like it’s low energy, low exertion dancing], and live in Australia), and I have literally NEVER smelled due to BO. I’ve only ever had my sweat described as “doesn’t smell like anything”, and “sweet, like fruit” (multiple times, by different people), and I’ve never smelled like BO the way others do, to myself, but I don’t have dry earwax? Is that a genetic thing? A luck thing? I’m confused…
Doc, how does one treat and hopefully cure TMAU2? From my online searches, I've learnt about taking probiotics in the form of fermented foods like sauerkraut, kefir, kombucha, eating leafy greens and eliminating certain foods. Kombucha gives me migraines, sauerkraut doesn't seem to be effective and I lost my kefir grains coz I didn't handle my batch very well. SOS😢😢😢😢
I'm complete european descent. Ive never had to wear deodorant in my 27 years of life because I don't have a smell when I sweat 🎉 I just realized how rare it is. Lucky me 😅 and yes I also have dry ear wax
I am italian and have absolutely no bo at all. I have never even sweat from my armpits at all in my life. Even when im extremely hot, i can sweat everywhere else but not my armpits. I have never met another person who doesn't.
I mean. No one should be super smelly if they have access to hygiene products imo 😐 It would be cool to not necessarily need deodorant though. I get anxiety sweats and will literally be wiping myself with baby wipes in the bathroom because I have a meeting with management or something and cannot show up stinking of FEAR. 😭
I’d always wondered why my European friends obsessed with deodorants when I never felt the need to wear one. If it’s a glitch in the gene, are there any downsides of stink free armpits and dry earwax?
No one in my family has ever bought deodorant. It was a culture shock for me and my mom when all the girls in gym started sticking stuff onto their armpits 😂
Native Americans tend to have dry earwax as well, though I don't think they're necessarily free from BO. I had to take my kid for routine earwax cleanings at the doctor for years, though. Dry earwax was more of a curse than a superpower.
I've watched a bunch of videos of ppl getting their ears flushed with water in order to get the impaction of wax out, and it did seem as though the more dry earwax was a bigger culprit/ more problematic in ways. Prior to seeing those videos, I figured everyone had more of the "gooey" yellow/orange wax.
@@JustJ-Me speaking from experience its hit or miss, water doesnt work but sometimes hydrogen peroxide works, i got hit with swimmers ear a lot even tho i cant swim but now i know its dry ear wax
I have both type earwax and I do not stink fast, but I can stink if I do my best (not showering and going to the gym without deodorant and then still not shower. I am asian but not that east asian
it’s either sticky or hard, you can tell from the consistency. if it comes out in crust or formed balls it’s hard, if it’s sticky it will come off on a q tip.
@@shadowsoulless6227This is BS information. I’ve been using q-tips to clean my ears since I was a child, and my ears are still healthy and clean after checkups. Clean your ears, you nasty 🤢.
Well now I want to get an ancestry DNA test, my husband and kids have wet earwax and my sister. But I've always had dry earwax and never had BO but my siblings did.
this is only one factor. Diet and microbiome also play a huge role in how you smell. Don’t feel too bad tho my girlfriend gets really aroused if i haven’t showered in a few days
