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		fractallyte on Aug 7, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Eating Spicy Food Linked to a Longer Life As with garlic sulfur compounds, the odor is due to substances your body can't metabolize, so it excretes them - most noticeably through your skin.

hncomment on Aug 7, 2015 [–]

I figured roughly that. But is there anything I can do to enable any metabolism of these compounds, or otherwise neutralize them? (Can some people metabolize them better? Would the right skin microbiome help? Etc...)

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