Speaker 1: It's time for our strange science. Strange. It's like weird science,
Speaker 1: but strange.
Speaker 2: All right, this is there's a couple smelly stories for
Speaker 2: good reason in our strange science today. I asked earlier,
Speaker 2: what is your opinion? You a morning shower er a
Speaker 2: nighttime shower er, because science says one is better than
Speaker 2: the other.
Speaker 3: Hey, guys, Trucker Bill, great job. Anyways, I shower at
Speaker 3: night to wash the dirt off, sleep real nice, and
Speaker 3: then shower in the morning so I can do my
Speaker 3: hair all nice, plus watch the night sweats off and
Speaker 3: in case I have a nightmare about your guys show. Anyways,
Speaker 3: science is always wrong.
Speaker 1: Have a good day. Well, I haven't even told you
Speaker 1: what the science says yet.
Speaker 3: Hey garyto here, Hey, Yeah, I'm usually if I'm not working,
Speaker 3: I'll take a shower in.
Speaker 2: The morning, right when I'll wake up ready for my day.
Speaker 4: If I'm working on a working day, as soon as
Speaker 4: I get home from work, I take a shower.
Speaker 1: And I never take a shower at night.
Speaker 4: I don't know why, but it's either morning or after work.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, it's because you're uh, maybe a stink
Speaker 1: after work?
Speaker 5: Hi, Gary and Shannon Scott Here in Topanga.
Speaker 1: Ny Scott night shower, always night shower.
Speaker 5: That's when i'm dirty. I'm not dirty in the morning
Speaker 5: unless I've been dirty all night. So why would you
Speaker 5: take a shower in the morning. I work all day,
Speaker 5: I'm dirty, I take a shower, I get clean, I
Speaker 5: get in bed, I get up in the morning, and
Speaker 5: I go. Don't have to worry about taking a shower. Okay,
Speaker 5: great question, Thanks guys, great show.
Speaker 1: Keep it up. I don't know if it's a great question.
Speaker 4: Hey, Gary, this is DM or beside. Hey, I'm primarily
Speaker 4: a morning shower. Three reasons. One it wakes me up. Two,
Speaker 4: your bed is.
Speaker 1: Not as clean as you think it is.
Speaker 4: Ree, What if you end up having sexonvill the night
Speaker 4: or before you get up in the morning for work.
Speaker 1: Are sure people have sex? I'm sure people. Somebody does.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Gar Beer, So glad you asked a question here
Speaker 5: about showering.
Speaker 1: Sure.
Speaker 2: I took a twist and a sudden stop showering about
Speaker 2: five years ago.
Speaker 4: I just jump in my backyard pool.
Speaker 3: Have you soap in like ten years?
Speaker 1: It's very liberating and very organic.
Speaker 2: Not to mention it cuts down on the cost of
Speaker 2: soap and shampoo and stuff.
Speaker 4: Like that.
Speaker 2: So if you take a shower in the morning, chances
Speaker 2: are you're gonna say it helps you wake up and
Speaker 2: start the day. But if you take a shower at night,
Speaker 2: they'll tell you you wash away the day literally in
Speaker 2: some cases, and helps you relax before you go to bed.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 2: A microbiologist on science alert dot com says, there is
Speaker 2: a clear answer to the question of which one is better.
Speaker 2: So the question is are you a morning shower er
Speaker 2: or a nighttime shower er or are you somewhere in
Speaker 2: the middle.
Speaker 1: Gary.
Speaker 3: For those that are in perimenopause or menopause, showering at night.
Speaker 1: May not work because you sweat when you sleep.
Speaker 5: So for those of us who get a little heated
Speaker 5: when we sleep, showering in the morning totally worse.
Speaker 3: Hi, Gary, night shower always.
Speaker 1: I cannot stand dirty feet in the sheet.
Speaker 2: Okay, kind of a trick question here, because you can
Speaker 2: do either one. Showering at night showering in the morning.
Speaker 2: They do say this microbiologist, and by the way, did
Speaker 2: look at the specifics of what is going to be
Speaker 2: more beneficial to you? Does have an answer, but that
Speaker 2: there is another factor in all of this we need
Speaker 2: to keep in mind. So just first of all, showering
Speaker 2: is an integral part of good hygiene period.
Speaker 1: When you have it, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: Even the guy who doesn't shower finger quotes at least
Speaker 2: dips himself in the pool every once in a while,
Speaker 2: which is probably great. Showering can remove sweat. Sweat is
Speaker 2: not what smells, by the way, it's what eats your swet,
Speaker 2: the bacteria that exists on your body that turns that
Speaker 2: into bo So let's just get past that, okay. So
Speaker 2: during the day, your body, your hair collects everything pollutants, allergens,
Speaker 2: all that sort of stuff, sweat, subaceous oil. Some of
Speaker 2: these will be retained by your clothes, which is why
Speaker 2: your clothes can take on an aroma of you or
Speaker 2: vice versa, inevitably transferred to your sheets and your pillowcases.
Speaker 2: Right this is where it's gonna start getting gross. So
Speaker 2: the sweat and the oil from your skin will also
Speaker 2: support the growth of the bacteria that compromise your skin microbiome.
Speaker 2: Those can be transferred from your body onto your sheets.
Speaker 2: So showering at night would remove some of that, so
Speaker 2: less if it ends up in your bed sheets. Here's
Speaker 2: the problem. Whether you like it or not, depending on
Speaker 2: what time of life you're in it happen more. You're
Speaker 2: gonna sweat and your bed at night, that's just whatever
Speaker 2: it is. Your skin microbes then eat the nutrients in
Speaker 2: that sweat. That means, by the way time you wake
Speaker 2: up in the morning, you're gonna have again microbes on
Speaker 2: your bed sheets and probably wake up a little bit
Speaker 2: of snank to you because those microbes are eating the
Speaker 2: sweat that you sweat, regardless of whether you're warm or not.
Speaker 2: That would negate the cleaning benefits of a night shower.
Speaker 2: If if you don't you wash your sheets regularly, that's
Speaker 2: the key factor in all of it. If you don't
Speaker 2: wash your sheets at all, morning showering is the best
Speaker 2: because that gets rid of all that other stuff. If
Speaker 2: you don't wash your sheets regularly, if you watch your
Speaker 2: sheets regularly, do whatever you want. Showering at night doesn't
Speaker 2: stop your skin cells from shedding off into your sheets.
Speaker 2: Of course, dust mites can come. The waste of the
Speaker 2: dust mites can be allergenic as well. That could lead
Speaker 2: to a build up of dead skin cell deposits in
Speaker 2: your sheets. This is getting gross that can trigger allergies
Speaker 2: and exacerbate your asthma. Morning showers, however, they'll remove the
Speaker 2: dead skin cells well as any sweat or bacteria you
Speaker 2: picked up from your bed sheets overnight, especially important if
Speaker 2: your sheets weren't freshly washed when you went to bed.
Speaker 2: So a morning shower suggests your body will be cleaner
Speaker 2: of those skin microbes that you get. You'll start the
Speaker 2: day with less sweat for the bacteria to eat on
Speaker 2: and cause the bo So basically it sounds like the
Speaker 2: morning shower would be the way to go if you're
Speaker 2: not regular at cleaning your sheets.
Speaker 1: Your weirdo sick bastard all right.
Speaker 2: The other story is because it is a smelly story,
Speaker 2: the spray of perfume maybe a little swipe of lotion
Speaker 2: could mess with some of the highly reactive chemicals that
Speaker 2: cloud your body, and that could lead to unknown health effects.
Speaker 2: A chemical shield is known as the human oxidation field.
Speaker 2: Like a force field. Scientists think it reacts quickly with
Speaker 2: the molecules that surround us. It can neutralize some volatile compounds,
Speaker 2: but if you put perfume fume on that or lotion
Speaker 2: with perfume minute, it can transform the air chemistry in
Speaker 2: the immediate vicinity and that can potentially send some toxic
Speaker 2: chemical byproducts up our noses sinking into our skin.
Speaker 1: Not great.
Speaker 2: They're still studying a lot of the human oxidation field
Speaker 2: and how it impacts our health. It was only discovered
Speaker 2: a few years ago because a team of scientists found
Speaker 2: that oil from the skin reacts with the ozone pollutants
Speaker 2: in the air to form a field of actual hydroxyl radicals.
Speaker 1: Hydroxyl radicals around your body. There you go.