A blog from a guest at a Bettina home
I have been reading your blogs on giving up deodorant and anti-perspirants. That is quite brave of you because we all know people in our society now judge you as immoral if you have any odor at all. In fact, we are beginning to judge people as immoral even if they have a perfume odor where once we considered using perfume a good thing. Now using perfume is a low class/trashy thing to do. Times do change and sometimes really quickly.
I have been trying to give up deodorant and especially anti-perspirants because I believe they contribute to our epidemic of Alzheimer’s. The aluminum Chloride? – not sure which aluminum compound is in it, but that aluminum closing your pores so you can’t perspire cannot be a good thing. I imagine aluminum stuffed into my pores under my arms and it gives me the chills. I have not been successful at giving up deodorants, however, until I read your blog.
Several ideas came to me since reading and re-reading your experiments. The first – after a few weeks – I realized this is a great, unintentional weight-loss program.
I keep a food diary and write down everything I eat. It took about two weeks to begin to get it as a regular thing without missing foods or forgetting to write down what I had eaten. The diary has made giving up deodorants without smelling loud quite easy.
I noticed as I kept this food diary that when I eat heavily processed, pesticides, antibioticized foods – in other words foods that have been doctored and are not organically grown – my bad smells went up. Really horrible smells came out of me when I ate beef – non-organic. I smelled almost immediately after I got out of the shower and the smell was not pleasant.
The more of the “wrong” foods I ate also turned my body into a foul smelling center. So gradually I started the food diary so I could ascertain which foods were the culprits and gradually I have become extremely aware of my body and the reactions I have to what I eat. It has been an amazing revelation – and I am a very busy person so being busy is not an excuse to remove yourself from your own responsibility to take care of yourself.
When I go out to a restaurant with friends or an evening on the town or wherever I am going to eat foods that cause foul smells to emanate from my body I use deodorant. If its going to be a long night, I even use anti-perspirants because I need to be careful to not be ostracized by those who can’t stand to smell the human body when it is doing its job of getting rid of toxins through the pores.
It has felt like a long journey, but I like where I have reached. I have lost 15 pounds in the process. Apparently, the foods that make you stinky also make you fat.
This is an awful note to send you, but you have opened the door to such a discussion and I want to air my experiences. Maybe they will help someone going through what I’ve been through or maybe they will just peak someone else’s curiosity. I look forward to reading responses and suggestions from someone who has been through this and can help me go the next step in understanding more about my physical self and how society has intruded on the health of my physical self in a very negative way and what I can do to either mitigate or reverse those problems.
Ed. Note: This was from someone who has been a guest in a Bettina home. We are sharing it in the hopes you find it useful. If you are a Bettina Host Family or have been a guest in one of the Bettina Homes, please feel free to send us your thoughts, ideas, suggestions, discoveries and we will add them to the summaries of discussions we get from conversations over breakfast in Bettina homes.
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Anti-Perspirant Follower
A blog from a guest at a Bettina home
I have been reading your blogs on giving up deodorant and anti-perspirants. That is quite brave of you because we all know people in our society now judge you as immoral if you have any odor at all. In fact, we are beginning to judge people as immoral even if they have a perfume odor where once we considered using perfume a good thing. Now using perfume is a low class/trashy thing to do. Times do change and sometimes really quickly.
I have been trying to give up deodorant and especially anti-perspirants because I believe they contribute to our epidemic of Alzheimer’s. The aluminum Chloride? – not sure which aluminum compound is in it, but that aluminum closing your pores so you can’t perspire cannot be a good thing. I imagine aluminum stuffed into my pores under my arms and it gives me the chills. I have not been successful at giving up deodorants, however, until I read your blog.
Several ideas came to me since reading and re-reading your experiments. The first – after a few weeks – I realized this is a great, unintentional weight-loss program.
I keep a food diary and write down everything I eat. It took about two weeks to begin to get it as a regular thing without missing foods or forgetting to write down what I had eaten. The diary has made giving up deodorants without smelling loud quite easy.
I noticed as I kept this food diary that when I eat heavily processed, pesticides, antibioticized foods – in other words foods that have been doctored and are not organically grown – my bad smells went up. Really horrible smells came out of me when I ate beef – non-organic. I smelled almost immediately after I got out of the shower and the smell was not pleasant.
The more of the “wrong” foods I ate also turned my body into a foul smelling center. So gradually I started the food diary so I could ascertain which foods were the culprits and gradually I have become extremely aware of my body and the reactions I have to what I eat. It has been an amazing revelation – and I am a very busy person so being busy is not an excuse to remove yourself from your own responsibility to take care of yourself.
When I go out to a restaurant with friends or an evening on the town or wherever I am going to eat foods that cause foul smells to emanate from my body I use deodorant. If its going to be a long night, I even use anti-perspirants because I need to be careful to not be ostracized by those who can’t stand to smell the human body when it is doing its job of getting rid of toxins through the pores.
It has felt like a long journey, but I like where I have reached. I have lost 15 pounds in the process. Apparently, the foods that make you stinky also make you fat.
This is an awful note to send you, but you have opened the door to such a discussion and I want to air my experiences. Maybe they will help someone going through what I’ve been through or maybe they will just peak someone else’s curiosity. I look forward to reading responses and suggestions from someone who has been through this and can help me go the next step in understanding more about my physical self and how society has intruded on the health of my physical self in a very negative way and what I can do to either mitigate or reverse those problems.
Ed. Note: This was from someone who has been a guest in a Bettina home. We are sharing it in the hopes you find it useful. If you are a Bettina Host Family or have been a guest in one of the Bettina Homes, please feel free to send us your thoughts, ideas, suggestions, discoveries and we will add them to the summaries of discussions we get from conversations over breakfast in Bettina homes.
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Learn More About How We Use Your Donation!
[give_form id=”3763″]
______________________________________________________________
Want to join us? Have a home that you want to open to become one of Bettina Network’s Hedge Schools? Call us and lets talk – or email us.
Ed. Note: Members of the Bettina Network Lifestyle Community can contribute to the Bettina Network Blog whenever they have anything they want to say and be heard by this fantastic group of people. Send your blog to bettinanetwork@comcast.net or mail it to us at P. O. Box 380585 Cambridge, MA. 02238 or call us on the telephone at 617-497-9166 to tell us what you want to say and we will write it for you.
Volunteer with Bettina Network Foundation, inc. to work estate sales; to help move items from one home to another; to contribute your ideas on how we can better use our resources in this effort to relieve and eliminate homelessness and poverty. We also need photographers; designers; and more. However much or little time you have, we are grateful.
Send your event information to be included in Bettina Network’s Menu of Events to: bettina-network@comcast.net
This is a curated blog so you cannot write your responses at the end of each entry. TO RESPOND TO THIS BLOG email bettina-network@comcast.net or info@bettina-network.com
TO LEARN MORE about Bettina Network, inc. try www.bettina-network.com
IF YOU ENJOY OUR BLOG, USE OUR SERVICES TO BOOK ACCOMODATIONS WHEN YOU TRAVEL!
1-800-347-9166 inside the U. S. or 617 497 9166 outside or inside the U. S.
This entry was posted on Saturday, August 13th, 2011 at 12:23 pm and is filed under Guest comments, Health, Making Connections, Reader Feedback. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.