Body Smells Related To Health, Recognize The Factors

Illustration of body odor factors related to health (Freepik/8photo)

YOGYAKARTA A smell has many factors and elements of its formation. While what about the aroma or smell of the body? The body's aroma is formed by complex factors, including genetic conduction. Researchers believe that the main factor of body odor is complex hystompathy. The genes in these complexities affect the body's smell by encoding protein production and body chemicals.

If you observe, the body odor is not stagnant. The body's aroma changes due to the interaction between the body's odor compound and the surrounding environment. However, through the body odor, it can track certain people and distinguish between healthy and unhealthy people. Assistant chemistry professor at Framingham State University, Chantrell J. G.

The body's aroma consists of organic compounds that are volatile. The shape of the gas is released from the skin. These gases are a combination of sweat, oil, and elements that are ejected from the glands in the skin. The main component of the odor depends on internal factors. Such as race, ethnicity, gender, biological, and other properties. The changing secondary component, such as stress, diet, and disease. While the tertiary component, comes from external sources or from outside the body. For example perfume, deodorant, or bath soap.

There are three components but there are many body odor factors. But a person's body odor can be an identification feature. This is why sniffer dogs can detect targets through body scents by following in the footsteps left by the target. This practice relies on the assumption that the aroma of each person is quite different so that it can be distinguished from the aroma of others.

The researchers also studied what distinguishes each person's body odor differently. For more than three decades, finding that body odors appear to have the same genetic code for twin brothers identical. But sniffer dogs can detect the difference even if they are the same in the genetic code. So what are the factors that influence everyone's body odor with all their physical conditions different from each other?

Research in 2017 proved that the composition of human odors can be classified by gender, race, and ethnicity. Researchers also train dogs to sniff out COVID-19 infections. In addition, research on odors continues to provide insight regarding a person's health detection.

The body's aroma is used to medically assess someone with seizures and as a diabetes warning. Medical detection dogs, can also show whether a person is sick or healthy through body odors. For example, research showing that dogs can be trained to detect cancer in humans. Dogs have also been trained to detect COVID-19 infection with an accuracy of 90%.