It's in the peanut butter

About five years ago, I worked with a guy who was training to become an airline pilot. At the time, he was working on earning his engine certifications, and though I didn’t know much about aviation, I remember him talking endlessly about flight school and the technical side of flying.

What really stood out, though, wasn’t his talk about aircraft—it was the steady stream of women who came by to see him. Practically every day, a different girl would show up. I finally asked him what his secret was, and he told me with complete seriousness that it all came down to one thing: peanut butter.

He said he ate an entire large jar of peanut butter every week, straight from the jar with a spoon. According to him, it somehow triggered a chemical reaction in his body that produced pheromones—making him, in his words, “irresistible to women.”

Then he leaned in, grinned, and said, “I’m telling you, man… it’s in the peanut butter!”