Looking at the Earwax, You Will Know Right Away if You Are

According to scientists' results, the body's earwax and sweat glands (armpit odor) are closely related. Through your body's earwax, you may know if you have a 'heavy' body odor.

If your earwax is wet, you have a bad smell, and if it is dry or an array, you don't need to worry about body odor.

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Specifically, scientists have discovered a variant of the ABCC11 gene, a variant of the gene GBCC11 that is commonly found in East Asians with sweaty armpit odor and wet earwax related to together.

People with genes corresponding to the letter G have many apocrine glands - the first sweat glands, which appear only in certain areas such as genital organs, armpits, umbilical cord,. Mechanism of action of apocrine is to put sweat into the hair follicle, then push indirectly onto the skin. Therefore, sweat will bear the same control of the gene that makes the smell so that it will make the body more susceptible to armpit odor.

In contrast, those with genes corresponding to the letter A have fewer apocrine glands, so there is almost no body odor.

This study was published in the American scientific journal - FASEB Journal.

According to statistics, odor-heavy genes appear in 80% of Europeans, 25% in Japanese, and in Korean people this rate is only 0%. In particular, the type of heavy-smelling genes makes up almost absolute in Africans and Latin Americans.