If you’ve ever worried that eating too much garlic would make you reek—think again. According to a new BBC feature exploring how food affects body odor, men who load up on garlic actually smell more attractive to women. Yes, garlic. The same stuff that keeps vampires (and maybe coworkers) away could be your new secret weapon.

The Study That Sniffed Out the Truth

Researchers had dozens of women rate the scent of men’s armpits after different diets. The guys who ate tons of garlic were rated as having the most pleasant and even “sexiest” body odor. Garlic supplements worked too—so if you’re not a fan of reeking like an Italian restaurant, you’ve still got options.

So why is this happening? The lead researcher, Jan Havlíček of Charles University in the Czech Republic, says, “We replicate

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