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Why Everyone Smells Bad || BODY ODOR 101

P.U.! What’s that smell? Turns out, it’s p-YOU. Body odor starts with sweat—but your perspiration itself isn’t what stinks. Your skin’s microbiome mix and interact with compounds within your sweat—and that is your B.O. — Producer/Video by: Jason Lederman Narrator: Claire Maldarelli Researcher: Jess Boddy Music: APM Music Special Thanks: Chris Callewaert (aka “Dr. Armpit”)…

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P.U.! What’s that smell? Turns out, it’s p-YOU. Body odor starts with sweat—but your perspiration itself isn’t what stinks. Your skin’s microbiome mix and interact with compounds within your sweat—and that is your B.O.

Producer/Video by: Jason Lederman

Narrator: Claire Maldarelli

Researcher: Jess Boddy

Music: APM Music

Special Thanks: Chris Callewaert (aka “Dr. Armpit”)

Media: Pexels, Pixabay, Prelinger Archive, Flickr, Pond5

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11 Comments

11 Comments

  1. Enigma

    March 14, 2019 at 6:37 pm

    Nice video ??

  2. Johnnyrising

    March 15, 2019 at 2:13 pm

    This is a really awesome vid?

  3. John Senchak Internet Security Guru

    March 16, 2019 at 7:52 pm

    BO RAILROAD

  4. Nikki&Aba Spoknik

    March 16, 2019 at 8:43 pm

    Love PopSci!

  5. Buttercup&Aba Spoknik

    March 16, 2019 at 8:43 pm

    Love PopSci!

  6. JKC

    March 17, 2019 at 12:04 am

    Just rub your arm pits with rubbing alcohol after a shower. The rubbing alcohol kills the bacteria that causes you to smell, and you won’t have to wear deodorant ( which is bad for you) anymore. You’ll still sweat, but the daily/nightly ritual of rubbing alcohol will keep you stink-free!

    • Fritz Machsnichts

      March 17, 2019 at 12:33 am

      You do realize that rubbing alcohol is a poison. Absorbing it through your arm pits might not be in your best interest.

    • Garry Kenney

      March 18, 2019 at 1:57 am

      I use Purell hand sanitizer because I am allergic to every deodorant I tried. It’s 70% alcohol really does the trick as a deodorant.

  7. WiseOldDude

    March 29, 2019 at 4:59 pm

    Gene therapy, fix the “ABCC11”.

  8. I Benz Aroun

    April 10, 2019 at 3:56 pm

    Popsci you need an old British guy to narrate the videos. This girl talks to soft and little girl like and its reminiscent of a asmr video. I want to learn but this is distracting.

  9. Death Dealer

    April 17, 2019 at 3:07 pm

    ???

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If you lived in the 1920s, you might have found a pamphlet advertising “the greatest therapeutic force known to mankind.” Radithor was a tiny bottle of clear, colorless water that claimed to cure acne, anemia, heart disease, poison ivy, impotence, asthma, and any other malady you could imagine.

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Host: Annie Colbert
Reported by: April White
Editing and graphics by Avital Oehler
Written and produced by Matt Silverman

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