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It seems to me that body odour, especially from teenage boys smell like onion? could it be hormones causing this?
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Certainly...: When puberty starts hormones cause different changes and one of them is stimulation of the sebaceous glands which are responsible for the fluid( sebum) that mixes with the bacteria that inhabit the skin normally and produce the strong odor.
Answered 3/1/2016
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