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If you've been overindulging on cheese over the festive period and can’t seem to stop, this video might help kill your addiction in just a couple of minutes.

It’s a guide to making your own cheese, flavoured with your own armpit sweat.

Yes – armpit sweat.

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Of course, the sweat is just a small part of it – you’ll also need milk, some starter culture and a cupboard to store it in.

It should only take a few days, with the bacteria in your sweat modifying the cheese as it ripens.

Oh, and don’t eat it – some types of armpit bacteria can make you ill.

American biologist Christina Agapakis doesn't seem too bothered by that though – she has made a series of 100 living “exposures” from her own body bacteria.

She took swabs from her armpits, mouth, belly button and toes as part of the project.

Christina even used the microbes from the belly button of author Michael Pollan and the tears of artist Olafur Eliasson to make some cheese – which is something that not many of us can say.

Still craving some Camembert while you’re watching the telly later on?

Thought not.