Re: Stink Happens

It is normal and essential to have Body Odor . What is abnormal is to smell more of bacterial growth on a dirty sweaty body, to smell of disease, or from toxins exuding from the skin. It is also abnormal to smell from applied or ingested chemicals.

I used to know a woman who took massive amounts of vitamin B-12. She was a retired nurse and gave herself injections a couple of times a day. It was not due to a medical condition, she just felt it gave her energy. One time a group of us went to a seminar near Little Rock. Riding in a closed car with her was agony. The woman, her car and her clothes reeked of B-12. When a person takes so much of anything that it oozes through the skin can't be healthy.

In another instance, I work with someone who wears huge amounts of a certain cologne. It is very strong smelling and its easy to know when she enters the building. When she enters the break room while I am eating, my food tastes like her cologne. A few days ago I followed her into the restroom. She is not a flusher, and even her urine smelled like Elizabeth Taylor's passion. That seems so wrong to me, to wear so much chemical on the outside, that the body absorbs it and the kidneys must excrete it. The skin is an excretory organ and we need to remember a lot of those scents that come from us can reflect the toxic levels within the body. Even the things we rub on the body to mask our natural (or unnatural) smells may wind up inside and be treated as something poisonous to the body.