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“I Have Not Taken a Shower in Over 12 Years:” Here’s What a Chem. Engineer Suggests We Try Instead
KFOR ^ | SEPTEMBER 7, 2015 | Dallas Frankllin

Posted on 09/09/2015 4:03:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A Massachusetts company says spraying live bacteria on your skin is all you need to keep clean.

“I have not taken a shower in over 12 years,” Dave Whitlock said.

Whitlock, a chemical engineer and MIT grad, says he doesn’t miss bathing at all.

“No one did clinical trials on people taking showers every day. So what’s the basis for assuming that that is a healthy practice?” Whitlock said.

In fact, what Whitlock does believe is healthy is restoring good bacteria to our skin that our ancestors enjoyed long ago — bacteria that’s been slowly stripped away by excessive cleaning.

To prove his theory, Whitlock helped found “Aobiome,” a company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

“We’ve confused clean with sterile,” Jasmina Aganovic said.

Aganovic, also an MIT grad, says as humans, we need to reconnect with our environment.

“We’ve taken the dirt out of our lives. We don’t spend as much time outdoors as we used to — even as little children,” Aganovic said.

To add a little dirt back into our lives, Aobiome has created “Mother Dirt” — specifically the AO+ mist containing live bacteria that’s sprayed directly on the skin twice a day. It has no odor, and feels like water.

“Our users are able to reduce their dependence on conventional products. Examples include cutting out or cutting down on deodorant, cutting out or cutting down on moisturizers,” Aganovic said.

There’s a Mother Dirt shampoo and cleanser that doesn’t contain bacteria, but Aganovic says it won’t interfere with it either.

While Whitlock still doesn’t shower, he does use Mother Dirt every day and hopes the rest of the world will join him.

“I would like a billion people a day to use this,” Whitlock said.

While Aobiome officials believe in the health benefits of these live bacteria, they’re not making any scientific claims right now.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: analretentivefreak; disgusting
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1 posted on 09/09/2015 4:03:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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So wanna see this guy in a Speed Date situation.


2 posted on 09/09/2015 4:03:55 PM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: nickcarraway

I he married?


3 posted on 09/09/2015 4:04:53 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: nickcarraway

Can I use the term “Nose blind” to describe this guy?


4 posted on 09/09/2015 4:05:37 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Genius at Large)
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To: RIghtwardHo

Date? He is probably still living at home with his mother.


5 posted on 09/09/2015 4:06:18 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
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To: nickcarraway

I’m betting the guy is single.


6 posted on 09/09/2015 4:07:13 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Ha! Or in his mother’s home. She probably moved to Motel 6.


7 posted on 09/09/2015 4:07:53 PM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: Fai Mao

I’m thinking he could give Debbie blabbermouth Schultz a run for her money for worst mayonnaise hair of 2015


8 posted on 09/09/2015 4:08:14 PM PDT by DAC21 (.z)
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To: nickcarraway

Why does he need to spray on bacteria? If the crud does not bathe, he has plenty crawling all over him already!


9 posted on 09/09/2015 4:08:27 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: nickcarraway

My grandfather thought bathing made people weak.
Gramps was very strong, especially this time of the year.


10 posted on 09/09/2015 4:08:49 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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I have one luxury in life my wife buys me Caswell ell Massey soap called Newport it is heavenly shower even when I don’t need it


11 posted on 09/09/2015 4:09:01 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: nickcarraway

“I have not taken a shower in over 12 years,” Dave Whitlock said.


Now, there may be some merits to his ideas about “good bacteria”, but this is taking things too far. Even animals bathe themselves with some kind of regularity...

Not to mention, in the U.S., since we use toilet paper, not bathing is really not an option unless you like the not-so-good bacteria that come with fecal matter setting up a colony in your nether regions!


12 posted on 09/09/2015 4:09:14 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: nickcarraway

His nickname is “Stinky”.


13 posted on 09/09/2015 4:10:12 PM PDT by mkmensinger
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No offense, but I don’t think his butthole is going to be very sweet smelling without a daily washing somehow...


14 posted on 09/09/2015 4:10:41 PM PDT by DouglasKC (I'm pro-choice when it comes to lion killing....)
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To: nickcarraway

How much you want to bet this guy will be one of the first in line to get the new iPencil...


15 posted on 09/09/2015 4:10:49 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: nickcarraway

Now he’s famous, or infamous, for being unwashed and unashamed.


16 posted on 09/09/2015 4:11:40 PM PDT by lee martell
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“His nickname is “Stinky”.

There’s a nickname that will cling to ya.


17 posted on 09/09/2015 4:12:24 PM PDT by jessduntno (The mind of a liberal...deceit, desire for control, greed, contradiction and fueled by hate.)
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To: nickcarraway

Interesting...

I remember playing ‘mud ball’ when I was a kid- it was the best time ever AND i remember i always felt great after.

The idea was to go out to play tackle football in the rain in the muddiest place we could find and try on purpose to get tackled in the mud.


18 posted on 09/09/2015 4:12:25 PM PDT by Mr. K (If it is HilLIARy -vs- Jeb! then I am writing-in Palin/Cruz)
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To: nickcarraway

He must be from France.


19 posted on 09/09/2015 4:13:41 PM PDT by theoilpainter
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To: nickcarraway

I think he and Sheryl Crow should get married. They’d deserve each other.


20 posted on 09/09/2015 4:14:20 PM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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