Why We Have Body Odor?

For us to have body odor, something else has to happen before body odor can occur...and that is

, we have to sweat. But it isn't the sweat that gives us our body odor. This is mainly because sweat is primarily water and nutrients or minerals excreted by our body during the process of cooling down from being heated.

We sweat as a mechanism to cool our body down from when we have become too warm or too hot, either through our environment warming up or through some form of physical activity. There are some other forms of heating involved with our body; like sickness sweating, a sweating fever, or disease sweating, but our physical activity and the environment are our main two reasons for 'sweating up buckets'.

During our sweating process, where the water is brought to the surface of your skin and then cools in the surrounding air, thereby cooling you off, the minerals and nutrients are left behind by the evaporating water and they remain on your skin.

After a period of sweating and you have dried off, just rub your hand or fingers over those parts of the skin that you have sweated from and you will notice the skin is a little rougher than normal. That is the mineral/nutrient deposit!

Now, we have body odor because of what happens next in the cycle. This is where bacteria becomes involved as you perspire and starts to process the minerals and nutrients on your body. The bacteria that attack your sweated remnants they process those bits of nutrition through their own systems, and of course they have their own waste byproducts that they excrete. This is where your body odor comes from, the bacterial waste byproducts, not your sweat as such.

This is the unfortunate part of sweating, and unless you sweat whilst taking a shower where you can wash the sweat and bacteria straight off of your body, there is very little chance that you are going to be able to get away without some form of body odor when you sweat. Your are nearly always sweating, sorry about that!

Some people have strong, pungent and excessive body odor, while other people may only be affected by a slight smell, it has nothing to do with your age or your sex. But there is a case for your diet playing a major role in your personal body odor smell. So if you are going to exercise, play sport, or be strenuous, try not to have a dinner the night before that is loaded with loads of garlic, otherwise you may not have too many exercise partners that day...peeehew!

So become aware of how your diet will interact, and impact, with your sweating and your body odor.

Copyright (c) 2010 Lynsey Carter

by: Lynsey Carter

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