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James Hamblin is a teacher of Yale University Medicine who had a curiosity. “It’s from a lot of people who bathe very little. I knew it was possible, but I wanted to try it for myself to see what the effect would be,” he said in an interview with BBC.
This 37-year-old teacher decided to stop showering from 2015, as a scientific experiment. “Over time, your body gets used to it more and more so it doesn’t smell so bad if you don’t use deodorant and soap.. And your skin does not become so greasy when you stop using strong soaps, “he said.
Hamblin has drawn conclusions that, if understood, are interesting: “The most important thing is to understand that it takes time, it doesn’t happen overnight, it’s not immediate. There were times when I wanted to shower because I was pulling it out, waving badly and presenting that I had fat. But that started to happen to me less and less. “
On a personal level, this teacher has explained that he has one “Own smell” and has assured that his wife likes him. In fact, Hamblin has been critical of some social conventions on this issue. “We hope people don’t smell anything or that it smells like perfume, cologne, bath gel or otherwise it means they stink. If there is any detectable human odor, it is negative“, Has said.
The teacher has reasoned his experimentation as follows. “Body odor is a product of bacteria that live on our skin. When you shower aggressively, you destroy ecosystems. They repopulate quickly, but species become unbalanced and tend to favor the types of microbes that produce odor, ”he said.