This feels good! Many will not be familiar with my previous blogs due to a malfunction on Blog.com but believe me they are there and I enjoyed composing my thoughts in that way. I feel very positive about wordpress and its ability to let the world (well maybe just my friends) read what I have to share with them.
Today, I think that perspiration is on my mind. Summer is coming and the sun’s natural heat is everywhere you go. Today in Minnesota, for instance, it is going to be 86 degrees and it is only the 10th of May. Will I apply the antiperspirant that Proctor and Gamble advertise frequently or perhaps some other secret to dryness. Categorically the answer is NO!
First of all let me say that I am a faithful follower of Joe Mercola’s site but only because the advice I have followed from that site has proven over and over to be correct. So imagine my surprise when the topic of deodorants and antiperspirants was discussed. Joe Mercola said something preposterous like “you don’t need to use those products”. I had for sometime disliked putting those chemicals on my skin as I was familiar with the aluminum hazards of anti-perspirants and to be honest, I have a mother with Alzheimer’s Disease and I know the association of excess aluminum in the brain tissue of that disease’s victims. Why would I want to absorb a metal with known negative affects on the human body? To smell nice that’s why.
It was with great trepidation that I went out of the house the first time with nothing under my arms but bare flesh. I did take the chlorophyll pills that Mercola recommended if you were concerned about body odor but otherwise I was without chemicals to dry and deodorize my pits. I kept my arms close to my body that day and at the end of the day I felt there was some odor but it was no worse than the smell emitted from a pit that has had some awful artificial deodorant fragrance of “spring” or “sport” taped over it every morning.
I felt not only relief but some irritation at the end of that day that for years I had been fooled by everything I read and heard in to thinking that my body required a band aid to be okay. Amazingly not one doctor ever told me I didn’t need such perfumed nonsense or that if I eat the right food for my body it won’t emit toxic wastes that smell.
To be succinct and I am usually anything but, I am and have been sporting unadorned pits for two years now. Do I occasionally have some body odor? Yes. Did I occasionally have body odor when I still had my dirty little “Secret”? Yes. The difference is that now if I have a highly stressful situation to cope with I will dust a teaspoon of baking soda under my arms to neutralize smells and go happily on my way to, you guessed it, work (the stressful place where I worry about smell as my pits are in someone’s face almost all day).
