Does what I eat have an impact on the smell of my perspiration?

2023-07-18 12:11:00

Eating asparagus flavors the urine. It’s common knowledge. To the point that we wonder if certain foods can have an impact on our body odor and, in particular, our perspiration. We take stock.

How does the human body convert food into smells?

To put it simply, it is the microscopic bacteria present on the surface of the skin that consume the proteins, sebum and fatty acids contained in the sweat produced by the apocrine glands. In parallel, it is even bacteria generate malodorous chemical components.

Then there is also the case of foods which, because they increase the body’s temperature, cause an increase in the quantity of sweat produced and an amplification of its smell.

And the armpits are not the only ones affected by these bad smells. In fact, all the areas where we have the most sweat glands (which have the role of producing and evacuating sweat) will smell ‘bad’, namely the armpits – therefore -, but also the hands, the thorax, the feet as well as the private parts…

What Foods Cause Bad Body Odor?

Everything is obviously a matter of appreciation but certain foods, thanks to a clever body chemistry, will stimulate the production of malodorous odors by the bacteria in our body. In question :

• Animal proteins and in particular red meat and charcuterie¹,
• Asparagus, whose digestion causes a fragrant amino acid, asparagine,
• Garlic,
• The onion, whose digestion gives off a smell of sulphur,
• Cabbage, the digestion of which gives off a smell of sulphur.

In some people, there are special cases:

• Dairy products, which when poorly digested cause a cabbage odor due to a poor assimilation of lactose by the organization,
• Fish, in some people with a metabolic disorder (trimethylaminuria), causes a strong smell of rotten fish.

What foods amplify the smell of sweat?

It’s simple, it concerns all foods that will increase body temperature and, in fact, perspiration.

• Spices such as curry, chilli, cumin,
• Alcohol, assimilated to a toxin by the body which will seek to eliminate it as quickly as possible,
• Tea, coffee and hot drinks in general…

Do certain foods improve body odor?

Pour don’t smell bad, it is first necessary to integrate the right reflexes: adopt an antiperspirant or an effective deodorant, avoid letting perspiration macerate (by favoring cotton rather than synthetic fibers, among others). In addition, the hairs present under the armpits will retain secretions and promote the proliferation of bacteria, which is why we find that hairy armpits smell more (than when they are free of their hair).

If there really is nofoods that promote good body odorsome can on the other hand attenuate the processes generating bad body odor :

• live yeasts will counter the action of bacteria in the body that generate bad odors,
• fruits and in particular citrus fruits,
• green vegetables, thanks to the chlorophyll they contain and which acts as a natural deodorant,
• sage, known to reduce perspiration, can be consumed in herbal tea or capsules,
• green tea, helping to drain, participates in the elimination of toxins responsible for bad odors accumulated by the body.

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