TMAU Solutions

DISCLAIMER:  I am not a doctor or medical professional of any kind, and nothing here is medical advice.   A more general theory behind the diet I used - the idea of accumulated buildups: I recently made a long post (with a couple long replies adding to it) about the vegan diet I used to solve this problem for myself about 20 years ago. I wanted to make a post about the basic theory behind it that would apply to any diet to deal with this condition, beyond simply vegan ones. The basic idea is that if the body can't properly process something it can either immediately get rid of it anyway it can, through the sweat and breath, or it can allow it to build up in the system. The body only uses sweat/breath to eliminate things as a last resort. The body and brain have enough intelligence to know this will cause a person a lot of trouble. So the body will allow something it can't process correctly to build up until there is no more room, and only then will it start getting ...

  DISCLAIMER:  I am not a doctor or medical professional of any kind, and nothing here is medical advice.  My quick suggestion is to try wearing a pair of Depends (or other brands) incontinence underwear. If there is any noticeable reduction in the smell at all, then you have likely established that actual fecal material in your colon/rectum is the issue. This will dramatically alter the course of treatment you attempt, as opposed to if the smell is coming out through your pores or sweat. Trying enemas to see if clearing out the fecal material gets rid of (or at least improves) the smell is another idea, a user here is doing that. EDIT: I am suggesting trying an enema to try and see if fecal material in the colon is the root cause. I am not suggesting you start using daily enemas to control this, as that has all sorts of potential negative consequences. You have to very carefully approach the idea of doing that.

  DISCLAIMER:  I am not a doctor or medical professional of any kind, and nothing here is medical advice.  UPDATE: I am going to be making a post soon on what a proper hygiene routine looks like. Make sure you check out that post to rule that out as a possible alternative to having TMAU. I think the vast majority of people here really have TMAU or a related condition. However, I am sure there is a certain percentage of people here who believe they have this condition, but it is really all in their head. These people can be CURED and quickly, which is why identifying them has to be a top priority. The key to knowing this condition is real and not in your head is to have a history of comments made about it. You MUST have a history of very clear comments about a bad smell made either in your presence, or better yet, right to your face, in order to conclude you really have this. The comments need to be ongoing as well, to rule out a past odor issue that no longer exits....

   I just made a post a few days ago [on reddit] about having medical researchers try to get to the bottom of this class of conditions, and I said how the liver is the most likely culprit. I did some more thinking, and I came up with a major new way of thinking about this issue. The case I will make here is that this is actually not a class of metabolic disorders, but rather the body is intentionally creating the smell for the same reasons it creates apocrine sweat and underarm/pubic hair to amplify smells - it smelled good to people 500,000 years ago, but the body has not done away with it yet. If correct, this changes the direction that medical researchers need to go. I want to say at the start that I am NOT a doctor or scientist or medical researcher. What follows are my opinions, and they are meant to be debated and discussed, not just blindly accepted as proven facts. ---------------------------- EVIDENCE AGAINST THIS CONDITION BEING A METABOLIC DISORDER: The tr...

  DISCLAIMER:  I am not a doctor or medical professional of any kind, and nothing here is medical advice.  INTRODUCTION: This is a copy of the post I made on the Reddit TMAU subreddit about the diet that solved my TMAU problem over 20 years ago. I am concerned that people may not be paying enough attention to the parts about who this is diet is likely and not likely to work for, as people are desperate for solutions. This diet is all about minimizing animal products. The key to seeing if this diet may work for you is whether or not you have an extremely powerful positive response to eating beef.  This is what I have, and in this post I explain why I think this points to the abnormal processing of carnitine being the culprit. Red meat (and beef in particular) has massive amounts of carnitine in it. I experience very powerful euphoric feelings when I eat beef, and this is a key indicator that this diet may be worth trying. The diet will need to be followed for some...

DISCLAIMER:  I am not a doctor or medical professional of any kind, and nothing here is medical advice.  Hi, this blog is going to be a source of helpful information for dealing with TMAU like disorders. I am using the term 'TMAU' to refer mostly to a general malodor condition, rather than the true form of TMAU. The true form concerns a (rotting) fish odor and is controlled through limiting intake of choline. This is the current standard practice for most people with this type of condition, to refer to it as TMAU.  Most of the posts on this blog are taken directly from my Reddit account. Keep in mind that there will be references to Reddit copied over in the posts at times, so just ignore those. I am going to be making a YouTube channel to go with this blog shortly. Stay tuned for updates!