{"id":172,"date":"2011-08-13T12:23:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T12:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bettina-network.com\/blog\/?p=172"},"modified":"2018-10-19T10:14:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T10:14:27","slug":"anti-perspirant-follower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/archives\/172","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Perspirant Follower"},"content":{"rendered":"

A blog from a guest at a Bettina home<\/span><\/u><\/b><\/p>\n

I have been reading your blogs on giving up deodorant and anti-perspirants. \u00a0That 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. \u00a0In 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. \u00a0Now using perfume is a low class\/trashy thing to do. \u00a0Times do change and sometimes really quickly.<\/p>\n

I have been trying to give up deodorant and especially anti-perspirants because I believe they contribute to our epidemic of Alzheimer’s. \u00a0The 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. \u00a0I imagine aluminum stuffed into my pores under my arms and it gives me the chills. \u00a0I have not been successful at giving up deodorants, however, until I read your blog.<\/p>\n

Several ideas came to me since reading and re-reading your experiments. \u00a0The first – after a few weeks – I realized this is a great, unintentional weight-loss program.<\/p>\n

I keep a food diary and write down everything I eat. \u00a0It 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. \u00a0The diary has made giving up deodorants without smelling loud quite easy.<\/p>\n

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. \u00a0Really horrible smells came out of me when I ate beef – non-organic. \u00a0I smelled almost immediately after I got out of the shower and the smell was not pleasant.<\/p>\n

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. \u00a0It 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.<\/p>\n

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. \u00a0If 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.<\/p>\n

It has felt like a long journey, but I like where I have reached. \u00a0I have lost 15 pounds in the process. \u00a0Apparently, the foods that make you stinky also make you fat.<\/p>\n

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. \u00a0Maybe they will help someone going through what I’ve been through or maybe they will just peak someone else’s curiosity. \u00a0I 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.<\/p>\n

Ed. Note:<\/b> This was from someone who has been a guest in a Bettina home. \u00a0We are sharing it in the hopes you find it useful. \u00a0If 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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