Social media is heating up over why Asians don’t have body odor
www.nbcnews.com
Between 80 and 95% of East Asians have little to none of that typical acidic body odor smell. And it all comes down to a gene mutation.
    • 1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I don’t have an answer for you, but I love how seemingly random it is. Like someone reached into a raffle bowl and was like “Okay ABCC11 you get… Earwax and <shuffles around> …ah. Body odor”.

    • CookieOfFortune@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      Maybe affects the kind of bacteria that can grow on your body? That’s where the smell in your armpits come from and earwax stops bacteria.

    • flying_sheep@lemmy.mlEnglish
      63·
      4 months ago

      Did you know that you can click the headline to get to an actual article that you can read, which answers this question?

      • isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        11·
        4 months ago

        guilty! should have read it before commenting blindly

        for everyone else reading,

        a dysfunctional ABCC11 gene is also connected to drier, less goopy earwax. “So less of that means less body odor, and also translates to dry earwax.”