I have finished working and I am sitting here, trying to write an assignment and all I can smell is my feet, maybe a little to much information for ones liking, but hey its a start, and I would love to explore pheromones, etc. so this is the pathway that I see coming
Foot odour -> Scent chemicals -> scent chemicals effect on the brain -> other scent chemicals effect on the brain -> pheromones -> could foot odour ever be a pheromone?
If these concepts are already studied, that doesn't matter because I am not intending to break new ground here, but rather explore what is known, and other people to say, hey, thats such a good point, oh Ive always wondered about that, I wonder why.
Well this is why
I am quite busy with my assignment so I cannot say too much here, but hey, anyway.
Apparently foot odour has to do with:
- short chain fatty acids found in the socks and on the feet,
- particularly iso-valeric acid, as this was found in those with foot odour, and not those without,
- and by incubating sweat and lipids from people with strong foot malodour, the smell can actually be reproduced, with gas chromatography/ mass spectrometry analysis revealing a similar short chain fatty acid profile
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2369557 - I'll just give the link for now, so it can be found really fast for those who need rapid confirmation of things that they read :P
So there you go, now I will know that forever and whoever reads it will know it too...now to investigate iso-valeric acid, no, I shall study...but in time... :P
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