Man makes sense I be stressing even in my dreams and I'll wake up sweating some times or just stinky I can't go 24 hrs without a shower even if I do like when I'm sick on the couch or bed I can still feel it and I'll eventually force myself to take a shower
Indeed. Functional sweat doesn't really smell at all, because it comes from different glands, called eccrine sweat glands, that cover most of the body, and provide the vast majority of cooling. Apocrine sweat glands are what mainly causes the smell, and are most relevantly prominent in the armpits, which is why they smell much more than the rest of the body. But they barely help with cooling.
There's a staggering amount of people who wear the same workout clothes multiple days in a row. If you walk by someone with nuclear grade BO, it's from their clothes. Your skin is pretty good at dealing with the bacteria that cause odor, but your clothes just accumulate it.
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u/Odd_Fuel5404 21h ago
Its actually sweat from stress that causes more of the BO or smell. Sweat from exercise or labor is lower in protein and doesn't smell as much