What your body odour says about you
· 40 min · Episode 6
Episode What your body odour says about you
Body odour has a reputation problem. It is often treated as a hygiene failure or a social offence. In reality, it is biology at work, plus a big helping of culture.
And yet people online are trying chlorophyll shots to make their BO smell better. Hosts Katie Edwards and Dan Baumgardt discuss what evidence there is behind this, plus some of the health conditions that can affect body odour.
And we talk to Mats Olsson, a professor of experimental psychology at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, who studies how humans perceive body odour.
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Hosts: Katie Edwards from The Conversation and Dan Baumgardt, University of Bristol
Executive Producer: Gemma Ware
Editing and mixing: Anouk Millet
Artwork: Alice Mason
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