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Armpits: The Science Of Stink

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Do You Feel Like You Need to Wear a Deodorant in the Winter?

In the summer, I have to very consciously think about what I'm wearing because it looks like a baby mommy, you are a pit stain, okay? I am a sweater. In the winter, I don't need to think about them as much. It's not, when people say, oh, I'm sweating, I smell bad, it's actually two separate glands. Very important evolutionary trait. Whereas the apocrine glands, which are in your armpit and in other parts of your body, they secrete the liquid that the bacteria then kind of interacts with and smells.

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