What Would Happen If You Never Showered Since You Were Born?

taking a shower is for many people more than just a daily hygiene ritual from crying to drinking a cold beer showers are used for much more than just washing your grimy nooks and crannies so why would these two men's su showers all together for decades at a time [Music] this video is sponsored by surf shark find out more about them at the end of the episode Kyle Ashe Singh of India and amou of Iran have collectively lived over a hundred years without bathing which is absolutely bonkers why would these men choose to live such dirty lives attributes his aversion to bathing to trauma from his childhood while Singh says that he chooses not to clean himself so he and his wife can have a son why is he serious well I guess not everyone likes to sing in the shower okay I'm gonna set aside the fact that Singh and his wife have seven children all girls these men are according to everyone around them pretty stinky but what exactly is happening to their bodies now they've ascended beyond the petty squabbles of the washed masses and is it possible to never shower again but not smell like a compost bin today's video concerns new theories in the realm of medicine as with all theories they must be studied intensively under rigorous conditions for years before we can make any solid claims this video is meant to educate on the science of Hygiene not to recommend any course of action as usual we do suggest asking your doctor about what is best for you and with that out of the way let's get into it so what actually happens when you forego your morning shower for that disheveled look for more than a few days at a time I'm definitely not a shining paragon of personal hygiene but I don't think I smell right the first thing you'll notice when you start your journey to a soapless shower las' life is the smell commonly referred to as body odor vo is particularly severe where body hair grows the armpits groin breasts and between your toes though if you leave it long enough you'll stink pretty much everywhere next dead skin cells will build up since you're not scraping them away on a regular basis this can lead to a condition known as hyperkeratosis which is defined by a buildup of keratin on the surface of the skin it's kind of like developing calluses when you work with your hands except your calluses are comprised of hundreds of little scaly cones you would also quickly develop skin rashes on top of the buildup of dead skin Elisabeth tansy associate professor of George Washington University Medical Center's dermatology department says that when the skin is not cleansed or exfoliated it can get itchy from a lack of exfoliation and a pink greasy scaly rash can form on certain parts of the face scalp and chest you'd also be more prone to fungal and bacterial growth in the little corners of your body that are most prone to sweating now I'm no germaphobe but I don't think anyone likes the sound of the words skin fungus moreover if you were to go an extended period of time without showering any injuries or cuts would be more prone to infection from the increased cultures of bacteria on the surface of your skin it's obvious that regular bathing and showering is a good thing from slowing away dead skin to wiping away colonies of bacteria there are a myriad of benefits to cleaning oneself but there are more benefits to showering beyond basic hygiene the American Center for Disease Control notes that frequent bathing has aesthetic and stress relieving benefits but serves little microbiological purpose cleaning yourself a few times a week should suffice for most people that is if you're not building up a good sweat every day in a study on the physical and mental benefits of bathing Yasuo Kyoto researcher with the journal evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine found that there is a correlation between feelings of wellness after both showers and baths however those participating in the study who took baths frequently voiced a higher degree of wellness than those who took showers the most important benefit according to go toe is the hyperthermic action of bathing essentially the hot water warms your extremities and as your blood passes through your veins they absorb some of the warmth and carry it back to the rest of your body which induces perspiration and allows your body to get rid of metabolic waste materials resulting in a feeling of cleansing oh by the way metabolic waste materials are substances that are unable to be used by or byproducts of different bodily functions that must be excreted you know stuff we remove metabolic wastes from our bodies through urine feces and wait for it sweat but the sweat itself even though it's chock full of waste won't actually make you smell bad no body odor is created when bacteria on the surface of your skin consume that waste and reproduce there are however different kinds of sweat that are produced in different sweat glands across the human body apocrine endocrine glands are the two most frequent and they are the source of most of our body odour problems there are about 200 eccrine sweat glands per square centimetre and they can be found fully developed at birth all over the human body say for the lips and the glans penis the sweat that they produce varies but it is mostly comprised of water like 99% regular h2o though it also contains sodium potassium calcium and lactate among other things thank God our lips don't sweat that'd be awful yeah or else you know we'd have some pretty salty kisses apocrine glands on the other hand are a bit different they can only be found where body hair is grown as they open and secrete and hair follicles this includes the underarms the genitals and the mammary regions they also do not become active until puberty which is unfortunate because teens really have more than enough to deal with these days as opposed to eccrine glands apocrine glands secrete a sweat comprised of proteins lipids and steroids and the contents promote bacterial growth more than eccrine sweat don't get it twisted though if you only had eccrine glands and he refused to shower for weeks at a time you would still experience all the symptoms of an unwashed body you'd still reek like a dumpster in July what's really fascinating about apocrine and eccrine sweat glands is that the ratio of one to the other varies from ethnicity to ethnicity an article published in frontiers of genetics by toshihisa chicawa studying patients with exhilarated osis excessive underarm perspiration and body odor found there were genetic differences between individuals that could explain varying severity zuv body odor so now we know that body odor is a byproduct of bacterial life cycles but what if there was a way to get rid of it without actually having to wash ourselves now you might be thinking that the solution is antibacterial lotions and other products but that might be more detrimental than helpful a study done by Elaine Larsen PhD of Columbia University found that tested antibacterial products did not reduce the risk for symptoms of viral infectious diseases in households that included essentially healthy persons hmm so getting rid of bacteria doesn't actually make you healthier it just it just makes you stink less to a point yes if you have an overgrowth of bacteria you'll be more likely to get sick but getting rid of them altogether isn't good either how are we supposed to do then well chemical engineer David Whitlock the co-founder of skincare brand mother dirt apparently has an answer for us he claims to have perfected a serum of good bacteria that he has been using to keep himself smelling prim and proper in spite of the fact that he hasn't showered since 2004 Whitlock's journey into the world of skin microbiomes began on a date over a decade ago his date asked him why horses kept rolling around in the dirt and marsh and having no good answer he decided to probe a little deeper he found that horses used dirt to help colonies of good bacteria thrive on their skin this drove him to ask if humans could do the same thing whitlock collected bacteria from dirt at a local farm and fed them ammonia until they started producing nitrates then cultivated the ones that would theoretically live best on the human body he argues that these bacteria which he calls ammonia oxidizing bacteria or AOB are the key to salvaging your body odor in a life without soap by consuming the stinky byproducts of regular bacteria and neutralize body odor so you can go about your day in peace I should add that Whitlock does still wash his hands with soap and he doesn't actually recommend that anyone stop showering altogether in lieu of his product a O+ mist in an interview with motherboard Germany Whitlock says that in order to enjoy the benefits of ammonia oxidizing bacteria you don't have to stop showering you just have to use the spray after drying off after a shower to restore the balance of your skin flora if Whitlock is to be believed then it is altogether possible to never shower again but still maintain a smell decent enough to continue living amongst the rest of us we need not seclude ourselves like if we so desire to shirk off the cloak of regular bathing regular hygiene will always be good for you but there is a lot of new research being done on how our skin microbiomes affect our health and well-being just like how probiotic yogurt can have positive effects on our gastrointestinal microbiome so can probiotics skin care products have beneficial effects on our skin we can't all be so lucky as to be genetically predisposed to milder body odors so most of us are gonna have to continue to do that whole shower thing once every few days though I wouldn't really want to never shower again Whitlock might not long for his old bathing habits but there's something beautiful about those 15 minutes I get to spend in my porcelain panic room that I'd miss if they went away uh well it's not like coffee leads to bad Bo right 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Id: jXCYNK4eZAg

Length: 12min 21sec (741 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 08 2020

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