Lemons: Day 3

After sleeping on the lunch room discussion with clean, fresh smelling pits, I thought of more appropriate questions to ask my colleagues. At lunch, I asked, “what would motivate you to go to such lengths as cutting a lemon wedge every morning to use as deodorant, or another natural alternative?” The answers funneled down to ‘an official/surgeon general’s warning on modern deodorants.’ I can understand the their skepticism. To the same degree, I am baffled they would trust any company with their body, assuming because it is available for purchase at a store that its safe. I think there are plenty of products/ingredients that are legal to sell/use in US stores that should turn that skepticism back where it belongs, on the man made products and not the natural plants our bodies have evolved with for thousands of years. Click here for examples. And here.

 I make an effort not to talk too much about these topics because I probably come off as some hippie, elitist douche bag (as I write a blog about it). There are times I can’t help myself, and it’s a little more often than I like. Cramming how I feel down other peoples throats (TWSS) isn’t how I want to carry myself, and certainly won’t change any minds. However, from posing questions and an honest discussion, hopefully we will seek information and reassess why we make the decisions we make when it comes to taking care of ourselves. Then maybe change will occur and ideally we will naturally live longer, healthier lives. This is exactly what happened in the lunch room. A nice discussion about arm pits. I don’t think any of them are going to go to the grocery store and buy a bag of lemons, but maybe they think a little differently now… Or most likely they went home and told their families about their hippie douche bag co-worker smearing fruit in his pits.

I worked out tonight and did not smell offensive afterwards. I changed and ran some errands after without showering, which would not have been a good idea before the lemon revolution. I have to say, my expectations were pretty low here. But these lemons are seriously doing work. Day 3 is another total success.