Present He assures that it is not a medical necessity
James Hamblin is a teacher of Yale University Medicine that I was curious. “I know a lot of people who bathe very little. I knew it was possible, but I wanted to try for myself to see what the effect would be,” he said in an interview with BBC.
This 37-year-old teacher decided not to take a shower in 2015, as a scientific experiment. “Over time, your body gets used to it more and more, so it doesn’t smell so bad if you don’t use deodorant and soap.. And your skin does not become so oily when you no longer use strong soaps “, he assured.
Hamblin drew conclusions that, in his opinion, are interesting: “The main thing is to understand that it takes time, it does not happen overnight, it is not immediate. There were times when I wanted to take a shower because I missed it, it smelled bad and I felt fat.. But this was starting to happen to me less and less. “
On a personal level, this teacher explained that he has a “Own smell” and assured him that his wife liked him. In fact, Hamblin has criticized some social conventions on the subject. “We hope that people do not smell anything or that they smell like perfume, cologne, body wash or otherwise it means that it smells bad. If there is a detectable human odor, it is negative“, said.
The teacher motivated his experimentation as follows. “Body odor is the product of bacteria that live on our skin. When you go aggressive, you destroy ecosystems. They repopulate quickly, but species become unbalanced and tend to favor the types of microbes that produce odor, “he said.