SMELL BLEACH?!?!!? Ammonia???

I experience the same thing, I have no clue why it is either. I'm interested to see if anyone has an answer.

Hmmm..I don't think it's food related. As for smelling that in the shower, sometimes I can smell bleach strongly in our water.....otherwise maybe its...well, the body. Not to get into too much detail, but it might just be your own body odor that has a bleachy smell. Sometimes my husband has this when he's a bit ripe....haha, it's all good, I don't think there's anything to worry about...

lmao smelly cat

The same thing happens to me! I just assumed I was weird. I smell a more ammonia-like smell. So strange.

Okay so this might SOUND stupid but here is what I am pretty sure it is: Your body's PH. Like "Strong enough for a man, but PH balanced for a woman" I ONLY notice it after I work out. I think while you are sweating out (your body's cooling system) I think the PH pheremones (sp?) are released thru your pores. I notice it most when I PUNISH a work out. Like when I just do like 250 cals and a quick circuit afterwards for whatever reason (usually kids/daycare related cuz I'm a single mom) I don't smell it. But the othe day I burned 535 cals and NO weight training and I smelt it.

That's my guess, and what I believe it is myself :happy:


Edit: After reading that article on the smell coming from amino acids in the muslces, if I understood correctly, due to a lack of Carbohydrates makes sense...I have been on a long term low carb diet so on my longer workouts I must be running out of energy reserves. Makes sense.

Yeah I would just ask your doctor. Sometimes you can just e-mail them and that way you don't have to go in and pay if it's nothing big!

Hmm, maybe it's the whole ketone thing. When I went low carb/no carb for a wedding I noticed my breath smelled terrible, my pits were sweating and smelly, and I had really bad gas.......other than that, if I have a really good sweat fest at the gym, I stink. There's just no nicer way of putting it...

Well, maybe see your doc.

Increase your carb intake. Basically, when you don't have enough glycogen (carbs) stored in the muscle and liver or enough carb intake to fuel the activity, then the body has to breakdown protein to convert it to carbs for fuel. It is actually a by-product of carbohydrate burning that helps the body burn fat for fuel, so if you don't eat enough carbs, then the body makes carbs from protein so that it can break the carbs down to be able to burn fat for fuel during your workout. Anyway, the breakdown of protein into individual amino acids and then the breakdown of those amino acids to make the glucose needed causes the nitrogen from the protein/amino acids to be a by product that the body has to get rid of so it is sent to the liver and converted to urea and then sent to the kidneys to be excreted. Sometimes it is too much for the liver and kidneys to get rid of just through urine, so you will literally sweat it out, which is why you will smell it after a workout. It is actually in several body fluids which is why you may have the same smell on your breath. It's a sign of ketoacidosis. It's not only rough on the liver and kidneys, but the acidity of your blood can be out of balance which can cause all kinds of problems. Increasing your carb intake, especially right before exercising, can help though.

After reading the articles in this thread try

1) increasing your water intake to stay hydrated and to help flush out your system.
2) Increase your good (complex) carb intake, you don't want to be burning muscle.
3) if all else fails throttle back on your workouts.

i just had the smelly ammonia smell thing happen to me on saturday and i wasnt sure if it was me or someone else
when i got back from the gym i asked my boyfriend to tell me if i was stinky and if so .. of what
he said kinda like ammonia...i was mortified

glad to see it happens to others

What you can smell is your body breaking down protein.

You're burning muscle not fat. Look at your training.

http://www.bodybuildingtoday.com/bodybuilding/that-ammonia-smell-after-training/

This is very eyeopening for me, I experience this alot, I had chalked it up to the dandruff shampoo I use.

I smell a bleach smell more than ammonia...I think the answer related to fat burning through the KREBs cycle makes the most sense. When I have this odor, I have used all my water up and have exercised very strenuously! The answer is more water intake and the smell goes away...then take in some fruit and vegetables to balance the body and then guess what....no smell! YAY!