The smelly mystery of the human pheromone | Tristram Wyatt

Do our smells make us sexy? Popular science suggests yes - pheromones send chemical signals about sex and attraction from our armpits. But, despite what you might have heard, there is no conclusive research confirming that humans have these smell molecules. In this eye-opening talk, zoologist Tristram Wyatt explains the fundamental flaws in current pheromone research, and shares his hope for a future that unlocks the fascinating, potentially life-saving knowledge tied up in our scent.
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[@peterpetrov6522]

It's crazy that we know the temperature of distant stars but we know so little about human sexuality. It's almost as if we are a bunch of 10 year olds.

[@uknowwhatimean5000]

Scientist are trying. As if you had contributed.

[@Thezazaas]

@@uknowwhatimean5000 maybe your mom can teach us

[@kaufmanat1]

No. Stars are quite simple when compared to the complexity of the human brain.

[@DanteLikesRock]

@@Thezazaas savage lol

[@Confessions089]

​@@Thezazaasarrogance is so unattractive, unless you're trying to attract a lesser person then you won the comment.

[@slhines7]

I found that the aluminum used in the "white" antiperspirant deodorants actually causes the pores in the armpit to build up the stank pheromones, which is why I switched to clear deodorant.

[@glomr]

Interesting. There are several men that experience more attraction from women by increasing their testosterone levels in relation to strength training. Would have been interesting to see if this has an effect on the secretion of "smell" molecules in the body, in addition to making it more masculine.

[@sidtapia09]

I feel don’t sweat as much from my armpits as I used to when, and for a few weeks after I took a pct supplement

[@javier.alvarez764]

high testostorene secretes androstorene. androstorene is what attracts women make them receptive and submissive to you. strange but true.

[@DanteLikesRock]

@@javier.alvarez764 and what are your sources for that statement

[@Arcus2658]

This TED talk taught me that "secrete" and "secretion" are incredibly unsexy words, even when used in the context of breasts and nipples.

[@nadiayvonnerazanajao7082]

Kudos for the Video! Sorry for chiming in, I would love your thoughts. Have you considered - Sonsaiah Nonpareil Superiority (should be on google have a look)? It is a great one off guide for attracting amazing ladies using this simple pheromone trick minus the hard work. Ive heard some amazing things about it and my friend Sam finally got astronomical success with it.

[@vibes7826]

@@nadiayvonnerazanajao7082 I know where you live

[@HowardFarranDDS]

As a dentist I really enjoyed this TedTalk by @TristramWyatt“The smelly mystery of the human pheromone" and wondered how all this all applies to bad breath. Howard Farran DDS, MBA

[@jacksonbvalencia]

That it interesting. I've recently been reading up on commensal vs pathogenic mouth bacteria. Perhaps there could be some chemical signaling (or at least scent recognition) between people based on our microbiomes? That seems to be the case in the armpit region.

[@Walteralexander1]

Bad breath isn’t a sign of good health. Healthy bodies do however produce attractive Pheromones. It’s all about health.

[@3hustle]

00:12 🌡 "Pheromone" is a powerful word associated with attraction, but it's only around 50 years old, invented in 1959. 02:57 🌐 Pheromones exist in various animals, but their existence in humans is still uncertain due to cultural factors and individual differences. 05:51 🙃 Human smell changes during puberty, but cultural factors influence our perception of odors, making it complex to study pheromones in humans. 10:35 🌍 Research into human pheromones needs to be systematic, exploring the entire body, and considering individual variations. 13:30 🚼 The identification of potential pheromones could have significant medical applications, such as aiding premature babies in breastfeeding.

[@SaraevKS1985]

Doucet S, Soussignan R, Sagot P, Schaal B (2009) The Secretion of Areolar (Montgomery's) Glands from Lactating Women Elicits Selective, Unconditional Responses in Neonates. PLoS ONE 4(10): e7579.

[@ZardoDhieldor]

This was an astonishingly interesting TED talk! Thank you for uploading! :)

[@kylemeeson]

Lots of men notice an increase in attention from women when they abstain from ejaculation for at least a week, perhaps this is down to pheromones?

[@likeworldlikeworld2485]

I think this is a good idea, if it is true. Best of both worlds, morality and likeability. However to feel good about ANY smell one has coming from ones body perchance it might be the wanted pheremones? There can be NOTHING SICKER THAN THIS! I feel one should assume the opposite! Very much so!

[@Sisterlisk]

It could instead change his behaviour? Maybe they check women out more when they ejaculate less. At least for me, when a cute guy has the guts to check me out (and smiles at me), it excites me.

[@ben.rowley]

Nofap is extremely powerful. I swear by it.

[@bichitoarroyor8726]

So dam right my friend Because it brings that necessity up to your skin. And they pick up on that, I don't know how it works but it does! Is like.. magic!!! But it's hard not to jerk.. so... I guess is a decision..

[@peterhernandez2293]

kylemeeson I’ll put this to the test, I’ll let you know how it goes next week

[@zarkoff45]

Pheromones might be more important than just stimulating sexual desire.

[@prettypetite]

Yes, that's what he said.

[@ChuckNorris-cu8gb]

That's also what she said

[@oggamer15]

Chuck Norris Go away.

[@ChuckNorris-cu8gb]

TheLegend That's no way to talk to your Dad

[@oggamer15]

You're embarrassing dad! Now go away!

[@Northflowo]

But what in humans processes the pheromones? Most of us don't possess the parts other mammals would use to identify pheromones, and in those of us who do they don't seem to be functional.

[@fluiditynz]

This is not so much a mystery to people like myself. I'm one of those who scent female pheremones. The effect on me is on a sliding scale of sexual arousal or disgust. The scent is not from the armpits but from the woman's genitals, especially left hairy but not essential. It varies considerably in strength to my perception. When I was in my 20's and 30s, I would scent a variety of pheremones strongly, typically on a first spring warm day when women choose to wear a little less. There are rare women who make me just want to close my eyes and inhale through my nose in bliss, these women are outliers but the phenomenon is so strong that I look for the evolutionary rationale. I don't think it's simply an absence of deodorant or ovulation. I chose a flatmate like that many years ago and the effect was uninterrupted from her. My theory is that it ties into instinct. We are woefully ignorant of how instinct works but if you follow Luca Turin's work on scent then you will know that scent is based on vibration, not shape of molecules. My theory is that our mitochondria co-evolved to pass instincts through the bottleneck of conception independently of human DNA and that their communications with each other extends bidirectionally from them to our axons and other nerve cells, they are our co-evolved symbiont. Possibly those few outlier women I've met, that was instinctual attraction passed to me through my ancestors in a mitochondrial equivalent of the Bene Gesserit breeding program as in the book Dune. In which case I bred poorly. Maybe it's simpler for moths. I still scent pheremones readily but as mentioned, sampling opportunities require consent.

[@id104335409]

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind

[@laken1804]

Totally different from pheromones The character in the book had a well developed sense of smell, so he could isolate ingredients to compose a good perfume. With pheromones a person's smell that will cause me to be attracted to him is based on his own chemistry composition.

[@id104335409]

@@laken1804 the perfume was made by isolating the very essence of a pure virgin that caused everyone to fall in real love - purified and magnified. He wouldn't know what it was that he was isolating, but he knew it came from the skin glands of young women.

[@Brehvon]

Last I heard Napoleon wrote that don't wash thing so he'd know if she had been faithful while he was gone...

[@caradocapcunobelin2875]

Lol "I know you cheated I can smell it on you" 😂😂

[@user-jd3pb2zl8v]

Wonder how far we’ve come in the 8 years since this talk

[@TeerthaSwaraMardolkar2012]

transcript has many wrong word translated....

[@Smiles4Kids]

He make me fall asleep.... Just like one of my college professor....

[@annewang4997]

There was a Chinese romantic film about pheromone. It's about attraction between females and males, a little bit interesting!!! I watched the film several years ago.

[@ek_number_food1984]

Huan Wang do u remember the name of that movie

[@63M1N1]

enjoyed the voice

[@saleemisgod]

It occurs to me that humans unlike a lot of mammals don't have a definite mating season. For example when studying a dog or a cat it's reasonably easy to pinpoint when the female is "in season". Are humans seasonal? Just an observation, probably means nothing pheromone wise.

[@Fedreal_Bureau_Of_Investigaton]

I like the extra-terrestrial approach at 8:16

[@telmesomethinidk]

🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@ShirellW]

This was very interesting! I think moms should know this when their babies aren’t latching on to breastfeed.

[@user-gl3mr2oj2b]

my mom's body smell something that makes me feel comfort, but I also ever found that smell(my mom's body smell) in many other people, in similiar smell, very similiar smell, is that pheromone?

[@js5791]

No sorry bud that’s a perfume jk

[@Sisterlisk]

It's probably just the smell of the soap and moisturizer she uses that you like

[@eymenkolo7635]

correct

[@zamansarkar36169]

no

[@kaushikdharur1179]

No! That is Oedipus complex🤣

[@mx2649]

As a Hongkonger, I am pretty sure our armpits smell...?

[@melexdy]

Very interesting subject. Hormon actually translates into: charge Hormeterion(stronghold from where one charges),Hormo(verb: charge),hormomenos( the one the charges),horme ( torque force) etc The language is greek btw.

[@ndubstar]

Interestingly the definition of pheromones is something we should easily notice not something we should search for

[@warmleatherette]

BBC has a good doco - "Human Instincts" series by Robert Winston. Do a search.

[@georgiaguardian4696]

I can smell different levels of “sexy smell” from my wife of around 10 years. There are around 2 weeks she emits particularly strong sexy smell and responds well to me about sexual hints.

[@roymarshall_]

Wow the initial comments on a TED talk are possibly some of the dumbest things I have ever seen

[@phuongbinhhuynh6064]

Oh i live his voice so much...

[@ttfun4421]

hypnotising voice !!

[@john3152]

This is a general knowledge everybody should know...in human body..is it a women or men every each of human they produce in different phoremone or smell it is a sexual attractive

[@2bsirius]

If you can find a volunteer to go through all the orders that humans produce, let me know how that turns out.

[@oggamer15]

I put in an "order" for a big mac at mcdonald's one day, I ended up a few dollars fewer, but I still got my big mac. It seemed like a good "order" to me but let me know what you think. BTW, the "odour" from the burger really made me hungry.

[@DTrinh09]

Scientific breakthroughs / technological advancements don't come free...

[@hassanatriss1825]

DTrinh09

[@jonathanbriand3446]

Very interresting.. But I listen to it because this guy name is Tristram (game from Blizzard refference)

[@Oberonjames]

No idea what you're talking about, but Tristram was a knight of the Round Table. He is sent to Ireland to fetch a girl named Iseult and escort her back so she can marry the king of Cornwall, but they end up accidentally drinking a love potion and falling in love with each other.

[@Jimaix]

Oberonjames he means the town tristram in the diablo series

[@Maxander2001]

Oberonjames *Tristan & Isolde

[@lolzaloids]

Anyone else have problem with the sound cutting in and out ?

[@TheDrunkardHu]

allow me to briefly give an anecdotal experience that may support the theory of pheromones: my wife and i were having some troubles, i decided it was time to move on (at the time), i ran into an old friend, courted and attempted sexual intercourse... i was erect at the idea, but when the time came i was flaccid, and i feel it was partly due to her smell, which wasn't terrible but, for some reason, not desirable. i very briefly later visited my current wife, and was so erect it hurt! sexual intercourse was as good as it's ever been. i will say with almost absolute certainty that scent was a huge factor, but there are too many other factors to consider... now, i will watch the rest of the video! :D this was AMAZING! i love these sort of talks that touch on topics that not many people focus on.

[@sherriestephenssnow4154]

I keep my pheromones under control with invisiblesolid Secret ph balanced spring breeze, also i like to bathe😃

[@brianfitch5469]

If your a few days before, during and few days after ovulation. Nothing you do can keep it under control. Not just down there but during the cycle as the hormones changes the concentrations in your sweat will change as well. Men who pay attention a women can learn there smells. She had irregular periods. The first kid took about 9 months before she got pregnant during this time and year before I had learned at different times her smells. She wouldn't know when her period was coming exactly but I could tell her your period is a day or two away. Just a slight subtle smell. And our next two daughters she got pregnant twice on the first cycle. She didn't believe me the first time I told her second time she did.. I said now's the time your ovulating I can smell it. Most of the time it didn't have a smell and tasted like water. Had I not always been down there I probably wouldn't have been able to tell.

[@alkfelk]

I feel bad for the sound guy.

[@elouandaliyasser9166]

I really enjoyed this video... Thank you

[@likeworldlikeworld2485]

Best is to keep oneself clean, and to be healthy in body mind and spirit. Leave the rest to g-d. Also, look into 5 element chinese medicine/accupuncture. One should be free from blockages/imbalance. Most older people have blockages which make bad body odours.

[@Anthea437]

He could've chosen the fruit Durian, everyone would've agreed.

[@docinfoplus242]

It is NOT about "ODORS" (1:38) or "SMELLS" (1:45). It is not about "tiny quantities" (3:43). See kzbin.info/www/bejne/on3aqqt8Zq6dpbs

[@vinayseth1114]

But why would premature babies have problem with smelling their mother's milk?

[@sayeedbashashaik4052]

Dayuum love the accent

[@dzhibari]

7:00 Stinky tofu LOL

[@dubbarco4454]

Now its 50 years old

[@Vide0mak3r]

Inb4 they find out that pheromones are secreted by your left pinky finger.

[@fupayme5511]

I had THE weirdest dream last night, i was in a car and i couldn't move, not that i wasn't unable it was like i was influenced by something , i was talking ,i couldn't raise my voice,it was like having a bad fever y'know? the one where it's super hard to move but you still can.There was a man driving,i was in the back seat there was this strong urge to just hug him,i hugged him but It felt like i wasn't in control of myself.

[@austintexas9440]

And what does that have to do with pheromones lol

[@richgirl5635]

I guess it's a Christian add

[@aauae480]

This dream means that there will be a man who will take a lead and control your life, and you will have a good relationship with however that person is.

[@tulinbeyduz920]

I just went on two dates with a guy that is quite nice physically, but as soon as I met him he smelled like he left his clothes had been sitting in a washing machine for 4 days . I couldn’t get past his smell . I met up a second time and he smelled musty, pungent again ..:(... I can’t find myself attracted to him because of his smell I don’t know what to do . I mean I find it a real turn off

[@jayphogo3567]

No excuse for a grown man to smell bad

[@agus2001]

That guy must not have taken a bus or a train in China. People reek here.

[@JoseSanchez-bp7xz]

agus2001 People think they can eat whatever they want and let out smelly farts. Some people enjoy the smell of their own farts and like to whiff them.

[@mikhailbjornsson1874]

You mistakenly mentioned china but actually its India

[@caradocapcunobelin2875]

The thing I noticed about working at walmart in SoCal is that each race can be identified purely based on their body odor. Asians definitely have their own distinct BO.

[@laken1804]

He said Japan, Korea.

[@saeedurrahman2056]

This video was uploaded when I was 12 years old

[@a.k.akellym1950]

Now you're 18,hows that?

[@artjomraznjak8388]

very interesting

[@shuyintidus6246]

10:13 he's so overconfident😅

[@hadimert7127]

çeviri için teşekkürler :)

[@kiyohshi6827]

x2 speed folks

[@prototype9000]

theres allways one killjoy that contradicts science and everything else

[@michaelharned8741]

1 amino 3 propanthiol

[@takundag_]

I wanted to be like the Performer: story of a murderer. Oh well😌

[@ELdASenSei]

Teachme master

[@niu745]

and here I thought my smelly clothes attract females

[@niniitread8691]

Very interesting💃🏾

[@devilsscent]

Devil' Scent likes this video!

[@azad-4286]

hi

[@CBReptiles1]

Sometimes my armpits smell of vagina after a day or two of hard work and no shower 🤷‍♀️

[@meurtri9312]

napoleon never ever said that. jeez

[@laken1804]

Too bad for Napoleon, he missed the pheromone test.

[@baseball-11]

I don't smell

[@thelolminecrafter7830]

*MMM, DELICIOUS SOAP.*

[@neounicorn2023]

the only thing I could get from this, is armpits, odors and that people might get bored from low pitch story telling lecturer after a while. I'd prefer you got into the point a little bit faster and kept the focus on it, thank you.

[@lukasgayer5393]

The hysterical non-binary folk would completely destroy him today. "Lactating woman"???? How dare he!!! :D

[@sherinmth7966]

Who came here from reading too many omegaverse😂!!

[@fishertheadore6095]

💛💛💛

[@gauthier1129]

I always detected pheramones everywhere, cats, gays, agressive people....

[@hereforthelove159]

Bullshit! I brought that $10 crap and my man can't stay away when I use it this guy don't know nothing

[@wa_akii6873]

maybe it’s placebo?

[@TheSteezyCheese]

Great video! very informative