When I first heard of keto crotch I laughed. I was asked about keto crotch in my keto group if I thought it was real or something made up so big companies/fitness gurus can continue to prosper. How can keto cause your vagina to smell?! 🤔 (Does not apply to men.)
Diets can affect body odor.
https://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/men/sweating-odor/diet-affect-body-odor.htm
https://www.healthline.com/health/sudden-change-in-body-odor#causes
Ever eat curry 🍛 and smell it coming off your body? My sweat smells like kimchi when I eat it regularly too. So diets can change your smell, but to the extent of smelling like rotting fish🐟?!! Let’s dig deeper!
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.refinery29.com/amp/en-us/2019/03/226044/keto-crotch-symptoms-ketosis-diet this article links high fat diets to increase BV by this research:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2663425/ this is just an observational study. Participants weren’t randomized they were a subset from a different study. Participants took questionnaires on their diet. Found high fat diet associated with increase risk of bacterial vaginosis (BV). I’m not satisfied with this study. Too many uncontrolled unknowns.
Some experts think that the keto diet affects the PH of the vagina allowing bacteria to grow. (https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.insider.com/what-is-keto-crotch-2019-2). It’s the whole premise on the alkaline diet (https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/the-alkaline-diet-myth#what-it-is), that diets can change your bodies PH. Others think diets don’t affect PH at all. I am unconvinced whether your diet can affect your body’s PH.
We know keto can change the smell of urine like the breath, but if you’re clean you shouldn’t smell. So what’s going on?!
This is what I think is really happening. Low calorie keto can make you sexy! And when you’re sexy it increases the chances of you having sex. And the more sex you have and the more of a heaux you are the more likely you’ll get BV. Lol completely non scientific, but just a theory. I’m not an expert. Correlation isn’t causation.
Up next... keto farts... 💨 😷
