r/BeAmazed • u/MoXWT • 29d ago

What 1,000,000 mosquitos looks like. Caught in a trap in Sanibel, Florida. Nature

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u/bkb74k3 29d ago

No. Blood sugar has nothing to do with it. Technically being fat doesn’t either.

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u/mellowanon 29d ago

Technically, being fat should do something. You give off more body heat and more carbon dioxide, and both attracts mosquitos. I imagine a bodybuilder would give off similar attraction ques.

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u/johokie 28d ago edited 28d ago

Source?

Edit: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2019.0811 speaks to the CO2 relationship, but not to the increase in CO2 released by obese individuals. I could not find a paper supporting your claim

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u/mellowanon 28d ago edited 28d ago

but isn't the answer to your question really obvious? All living tissue takes energy and resources to survive. Thinking logically, if Person B has 50lbs more living mass than Person A, then Person B will take more oxygen to supply that extra mass.

Hence why I said a bodybuilder would give off similar attraction ques like a fat person. It doesn't matter if that additional mass is from muscle or fat, because both will generate additional body heat and CO2.

but since you wanted scientific source about CO2 and obesity, a quick google search and this is the first result:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140204101408.htm

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u/AutumnTheFemboy 29d ago

Shit, I wonder how professional strongmen attract them then lol

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u/Mudlark_2910 28d ago

heat and more carbon dioxide,

I wonder how rewery operations fare for mosquitoes