This document discusses metabolic body odor caused by a condition called Trimethylaminuria. It notes that people may experience strange body odor that is not relieved by bathing and that their family cannot smell but others can. It encourages those who experience these symptoms to discuss Trimethylaminuria with their doctor and learn more about it from other sufferers on a website or the National Institutes of Health page about this rare disease.

1. Strange BODY ODOR?
ITS NOT ALL IN YOUR HEAD
Metabolic body odor exists.
Ask your doctor to discuss Trimethylaminuria with youu
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Do people look at you funny?
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Do they rub or cover their noses?
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Your family doesn’t smell it, but others do?
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Is the odor not relieved by bathing?
It could be a form of medically-based body odor which is
only partially understood by the medical community,
and much more research is needed in this field.
If any of this sounds familiar, please take an opportunity to learn first-hand from
fellow sufferers at:
MEBORESEARCH.COM
For more information on Trimethylaminuria, only one form of metabolic
body odor, please go to:
https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/GARD/Condition/6447/Trimethylaminuria.aspx
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH: OFFICE OF RARE DISEASES