Update. I just spent a month in Thailand, and ate a lot of spicy Thai food every day. I garnished it with a lot of chili pepper and vinegar. My Taiwanese girlfriend complained that I reeked when I sweated. Absolutely foul-smelling. (she described it in Chinese as “sao wei”). I got a whiff of myself, and I have to say, my sweat smelled a lot like uric acid. Sour and acidic.
I’ve changed my diet quite a bit now that I’m back in Taiwan. No garlic or onions. Lots of fresh fruit and vegetables, but no durian. Not much meat. No chili pepper. Basically, I try to go with with foods that don’t have an “essence” to them. No spices or anything strong smelling.
After 2 weeks of this, my girlfriend says I smell better, but not completely better. I have a feeling my liver, kidneys, or intestines are clogged, and my body is excreting waste through my skin instead. (Is this medically possible?) If this is the case, I’m thinking of doing a fast on apple juice in order to purge my liver.
I don’t relate to any of you who’ve seen or experienced localized sweating underarm or on their hands and feet. I sweat EVERYWHERE BUT my hands and feet! I noticed that some of the foulest smelling sweat I excrete is not only under my arms, but between my shoulder blades.
I ruin white t-shirts. My sweat stains them yellow under the arms after about 20 wears, and around the collar, and this yellow stain can’t be easily bleached away. My mattress also has foul-smelling yellow stains on my side of the bed, where the upper part of me lies.
Something in me is obviously imbalanced. My metabolism is, and has always been, out of control fast. I can eat three huge meals a day and still be skinny as a stick. Still, I tend to reek of whatever I’ve recently put in me. I can have a single beer, and an hour later, I’ll meet someone who’ll sniff me and ask, “Are you drunk?”
I’m not happy about all this, because I very much enjoy eating spicy food. I love garlic and chili peppers. I could eat Indian food every day of my life. I don’t understand how some people can eat the grossest, stinkiest diets possible, and still not seem to excrete it through their pores.
My skin isn’t good, and has never been good. Besides excreting too much sweat, it’s thin, pasty, and sensitive. My face, neck, and scalp are very oily. I was one pimple-faced teenager.
Am I genetically cursed, or is something in my body out of whack?