{"id":217188,"date":"2009-12-18T06:47:52","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T11:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds2.feedburner.com:\/\/c1db0a936d594f835f364c25b74459e8"},"modified":"2009-12-18T06:47:52","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T11:47:52","slug":"is-it-true-that-sweat-does-not-smell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/217188","title":{"rendered":"Is It True That Sweat Does Not Smell?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sweat is indeed odourless !&nbsp;&nbsp;It is actually the bacteria which then feeds on the sweat which create a rather pungent odour, because the bacteria actually breaks down the fats (which are in fact sweat deposits)into unsaturated fatty acids.&nbsp;&nbsp;And the familiar smell of body odour ensues.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blurtit.com\/var\/question\/q\/q1\/q10\/q108\/q1086\/q108699_28628_810_3239627157_7c016bd174.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blurtit.com\/css\/common\/cc.png\" style=\"vertical-align:text-bottom;width:16px;height:16px;border:0;\" title=\"Creative Commons License\"\/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/72825507@N00\/\" >mikebaird<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Fresh sweat ie sweat which has not yet been broken down actually contains pheromones which can attract the opposite sex.&nbsp;&nbsp;But within half an hour or so, this will have changed into a body odour, so the pheromones are quite short lived !<\/p>\n<p>Some people seem to produce body odour very quickly.&nbsp;&nbsp;This is because if they have not washed for a day or so, then the underarm area will be &#8216;home&#8217; to an astonishing number of bacteria, which will feed off the sweat very quickly.&nbsp;&nbsp;Fewer bacteria means that the smell is less pungent&#8230; Hence why it is important to wash frequently.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Blurtit\/~4\/1s3VA9D0fcQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweat is indeed odourless !&nbsp;&nbsp;It is actually the bacteria which then feeds on the sweat which create a rather pungent odour, because the bacteria actually breaks down the fats (which are in fact sweat deposits)into unsaturated fatty acids.&nbsp;&nbsp;And the familiar smell of body odour ensues.&nbsp;&nbsp; mikebaird Fresh sweat ie sweat which has not yet been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}