Tip Eat Dirty Smell Dirty Search Skip to content Menu Menu follow us Store Articles Community Loyal-T Club Loyal-T Points Rewards Subscribe to Save Search Search The World s Trusted Source & Community for Elite Fitness Diet & Fat LossEating Tip Eat Dirty Smell Dirty Your food choices can change how you smell Here' s what to eat according to science to produce sweat that attracts women by Tessa Gurley September 2, 2017April 5, 2021 Tags Diet Strategy, Feeding the Ideal Body, Nutrition & Supplements, Tips You've heard the phrase, "You can't out-train a bad diet." Turns out that you also can't out-cologne a bad diet either. In a new study, researchers wanted to see if women preferred men who ate cleaner diets over those who ate "dirty." Turns out, they really could sniff out the difference. In fact, the ladies found that men who ate more fruits, veggies, and meat smelled more attractive than those who ate refined carbohydrates. So How is This Possible Our sense of smell affects us on a deeper level than we know. Inside your nasal cavity is something called the olfactory cleft. In it lies millions of olfactory neurons that connect directly in to the brain. It even seems that our noses can pick up on the diets, genetic information, and health statuses of those around us through chemicals released in sweat. One study showed that humans preferred the smell of sweat of those genetically dissimilar from themselves, potentially as an evolutionary advantage to avoid inbreeding. Certain disease states also affect the way your sweat smells. If you're immunocompromised or infected by some kind of pathogen, your sweat also stinks more. And people around you know this. Why You Might Still Be Single In this latest study, researchers took a group of dudes, gave them some T-shirts, and told them to exercise wearing the shirts. The guys also filled out questionnaires that determined their "food frequency" or how often they ate certain groups of foods like fruits, veggies, oils, meats, seafood, and carbs. The researchers also measured their skin yellowness with something called "skin spectrophotometry," a tool that measures skin tones. Eating more carotenoids (things in fruits and veggies) gives the skin a yellow tint, and this tint is considered more attractive. After the guys got their sweat on, the shirts were given to women. Researchers asked them to rate the smell first according to liking, attractiveness, health, and intensity. They had other ratings for smell (animal/floral, fishy or chemical) but these didn't totally correspond to the attractiveness scores. The Votes Are In Men who ate more fruits and veggies passed the sniff test. Guys who ate a good amount of meat also passed. The women were more attracted to the sweat from men who ate more fruits and veggies. And these were guys who really did eat more fruits and veggies as measured by the yellow hue of their skin. Good news for you carnivores, too. The ladies also found that those who ate more meat had more pleasant and less intense smelling sweat. The researchers concluded that "sweat can serve as a further honest cue to women about a man's health status." References Andrea Zuniga et. al., "Diet Quality and the Attractiveness of Male Body Odor", Evolution and Human Behavior 38 (2017): 136-143. Ivanka Savic et. al.,"Smelling of Odorous Sex Hormone-like Compounds Causes Sex-Differentiated Hypothalamic Activations in Humans", Neuron 31 (2001): 661--668. Get The T Nation Newsletters Don' t Miss Out Expert Insights To Get Stronger, Gain Muscle Faster, And Take Your Lifting To The Next Level related posts Eating Tip Increase the Quality of Your Sleep How to sleep more, sleep better, fight cortisol, and boost natural GH. Calm Down & Sleep, GABA, Nutrition & Supplements, Tips Mike Roussell, PhD March 17 Supplements Tip You re Missing This Protein Achy joints, digestive problems, difficulties losing fat, and even lousy hair might all be caused by a deficiency of this protein. Diet Strategy, Nutrition & Supplements, Paleo Diet, Performance Proteins, Protein, Tips TC Luoma May 18 Diet & Fat Loss Tip What a Bug Can Teach You About Diet There's an insect that tries to copulate with beer bottles. Really. And he has much to teach you about diet. Check this out. Diet & Fat Loss, Losing Fat, Nutrition & Supplements Nick Tumminello June 10 Diet & Fat Loss Tip Make PB& J Protein Parfait Tempted to splurge? Kill your cravings with a double dose of protein. Get the easy recipe here. Feeding the Ideal Body, Nutrition & Supplements, Tips Dani Shugart May 6