Don_Dickle to Today I [email protected]English • 24 days agoTIL that due to a disfunction of the ABCCII gene the majority of Asians have significantly less body odor than other populationswww.nbcnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square99fedilinkarrow-up1434arrow-down14
arrow-up1430arrow-down1external-linkTIL that due to a disfunction of the ABCCII gene the majority of Asians have significantly less body odor than other populationswww.nbcnews.comDon_Dickle to Today I [email protected]English • 24 days agomessage-square99fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•23 days agohold on what’s the connection between the two? what type of earwax is present in people with less body odor?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•23 days agoI 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”.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•22 days agoOr you get body odor and… alas, earwax!
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•23 days agoMaybe 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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•23 days agoDid you know that you can click the headline to get to an actual article that you can read, which answers this question?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•edit-223 days agoguilty! 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.”
hold on what’s the connection between the two? what type of earwax is present in people with less body odor?
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”.
Or you get body odor and… alas, earwax!
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.
Did you know that you can click the headline to get to an actual article that you can read, which answers this question?
guilty! should have read it before commenting blindly
for everyone else reading,