This smell is very similar in many elderly men. Is there a condition causing this odor? Do certain foods make you smell this way in older men? Can it be prevented?
2007-12-19 08:02:19 · 29 answers · asked by rmcgeelsu 1 in Health ➔ Men's Health
I think its possibly a chemical change that may occur in our bodies composition and thus emits an odor of decay (not in the bad way) but we are getting old. It probably also has something to do with the type of supplements and medications we have to take at an older age and the way that finally comes out of our pores. Finally, I think as we get older we get less concerned with the perfumated products that will utilize when we are younger and old people may in fact just smell like a normal person would smell like without all the stuff. So in conclusion, it's probably a mixture of what I just said.
2007-12-19 08:04:58 · answer #1 · answered by cspb 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Old Man Smell
2016-09-27 23:18:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As men age their testosterone levels decrease somewhat, leaving them with higher estrogen levels.
I think that the smell may originate from the metabolic breakdown of the estrogen hormone. The odor seems to occur more on thinner individuals.
2015-01-13 08:07:02 · answer #3 · answered by Polly 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The older the man, the less sophisticated the cologne . . . Plus, taking a full, complete shower or bath-tub bathing seems to decrease in it's occurrences as the elderly age . . . Even then, when they do, they don't do it all the way properly.
2007-12-19 08:06:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Old Spice?
Seriously though ...
-not washing clothes daily, medications, old fashioned cologne and most of all, a house full of old stuff that isn't cleaned regularly.
The thing is .... Don't you miss the way your grandfather used to smell? Mine smelled like a pipe. I still love that smell.
2007-12-19 08:07:13 · answer #5 · answered by ....... 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've worked in a nursing home for three years. The smell comes from lack of hygiene and decomposition, best I can tell.
2007-12-19 08:05:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Their are two types of odor: body odor and clothes odor. Both need to be clean.
If it's not the telltale onion or urine odor from body odor, then it's probably unclean clothes. Wash the clothes.
2007-12-19 08:06:06 · answer #7 · answered by Greg 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
my husband showers eveyrnight but the minute he steps out side during the day and comes back inside like today the strange stink is so annoying the smell every room he walks into .makes me want to kill him its terrible.
2014-07-13 08:42:47 · answer #8 · answered by ? 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
the smell of old people is caused by decomposition. see as you get older, your insides decompose faster than your outsides so what your smelling is old people slowly dying, either that or they like cheap chologne
2007-12-19 12:10:25 · answer #9 · answered by Clumsical 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm thinking it's the smell of their lotion and the heat in the room mixing together.
And their love of moth balls for their clothes.
2007-12-19 08:05:38 · answer #10 · answered by Yen 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋