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One of life's greatest mysteries has now been solved.

Georg Steinhauser, a young, affable Austrian chemist, spent three years gazing at his own navel — and those of friends and family as well — to discover how exactly we get belly-button lint.

"Abdominal hair is mainly responsible for the accumulation of navel lint," proclaims Steinhauser in the abstract to his paper, presented in the online version of the journal Medical Hypotheses. "Therefore, this is a typically male phenomenon. The abdominal hair collects fibers from cotton shirts and directs them into the navel where they are compacted to a felt-like matter."

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Intriguing! :wah:

:yh_rotfl Took him 3 years to come to this conclusion?? Ummm its pretty obvious to me how it happens.

My question is what about when women get belly button lint. I don't have a hairy stomach, so what causes me to occasionally have some lint buildup?

my belly button is always squeaky clean! :p

maybe it depends on the types of materials people wear??

Just checked and no lint in mine either.:wah: