Perspiration Causes Smelly Feet
by Dr. Roseline Hamsley

The main contributing factor to smelly feet is sweat. The feet like any part of the human body sweats. This is especially true when you consider the fact that our feet are normally bound in socks and subjected to the heat and moisture inside a leather shoe. In a normal day, research has shown that the area of the body that sweats the most are your feet.

Perspiration and sweat aren’t the direct causes of foot odors, rather it creates the best environment for the growth of bacteria and fungi. The bacteria and fungi don’t necessarily smell themselves rather it is when their excrement that smells and creates the foul odors.

The best environment for bacteria and fungi to grow are in dark moist environments which (when shoes and socks are worn) is the perfect description of the environment that your feet enjoy. It is only natural then that bacteria will readily grow and multiply at your feet.

A little know fact is that eating different types of foods will affect the general mineral composition of your sweat. A less talked about and researched school of thought suggests that by eating the right foods most bacteria causing agents or minerals in sweat can actually be eliminated. I personally tried this but it hasn’t been officially tested of proven, but if you actually had only carrots or as a suspect vegetables for breakfast your body doesn’t create the toxins that have to be dumped through the sweat and thus bacteria would have a harder time multiplying despite the moist conditions.

 Perspiration Causes Smelly Feet: Part 2