Under Arm Odor

Posted by Marjolein Brugman on Monday, June 21, 2010

FACT or FICTION: Everybody has pungent under arm odor.

The answer is FICTION. The root of under arm odor is genetic; a gene that causes a person to have larger and more numerous apocrine glands whose sweat contains specific compounds that become more pungent when mixed with bacteria and which are stimulated by the stress hormone, cortisol.

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