Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months 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-square77fedilinkarrow-up1107arrow-down13
arrow-up1104arrow-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@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square77fedilink
minus-squareisolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agohold on what’s the connection between the two? what type of earwax is present in people with less body odor?
minus-squareflying_sheep@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoDid you know that you can click the headline to get to an actual article that you can read, which answers this question?
minus-squareisolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-22 months 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.”
minus-square1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months 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-squareSLVRDRGN@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoOr you get body odor and… alas, earwax!
minus-squareCookieOfFortune@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months 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.
hold on what’s the connection between the two? what type of earwax is present in people with less body odor?
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,
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.