Friday, January 30, 2015

Meet Dr. Armpit, Changing Body Odor With Bacteria

What's really happening under your arms? The secret to skin smells is all in the microbes.

Here's an undeniable fact: In samples collected from seven of New York's subway platforms, scientists discovered that we're surrounded in plumes of microbes wafting off other people's skin. Here's another undeniable fact: Those bacteria colonize all of our glands and follicles and the entire epidermis. They make our skin smell. The scientific justification for l'eau de bacteria is that scents enabled great apes to sniff out those with optimal fitness and health, basically, find sex without the sickness.

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