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Sorry, hot yoga fans. Sweating doesn't cleanse your body

Sweating is not only entirely and utterly normal, but also necessary, so I wanted to know what gave the liquid such a toxic societal association. I began looking to the past. Something must have happened during sweat’s upbringing that caused it to turn from an everyday Joe into a villain. I felt like a therapist trying to figure out why my patient began to enjoy dismantling gophers. Something had happened during his formative years, but what?

It took some time, but while searching through old medical journals and studies, I discovered a German medical historian and doctor, Michael Stolberg, who’d spent more than a year trying to untangle our ancestors’ views on sweat.

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Articles of Interest

Do You Sweat Too Much?

While there’s a wide range of how much people sweat and how willing they are to tolerate it before seeking treatment, about 3 percent of the population suffers from excessive sweating, or hyperhidrosis, according to the International Hyperhidrosis Society.

Everything You Need to Stop Sweating, According to a Heavy Perspirer

Everyone sweats, obviously, and perspiring is a sign that our bodies are healthily regulating our internal temperatures. But some of us perspire a lot, and it doesn’t take much for us to get there. Hyperhidrosis is the clinical term for abnormally excessive sweating, but there’s also a middle ground of people who find themselves breaking a sweat more easily, and for longer, than most.

I Microwaved My Underarms to Stop Sweating—and It Worked

They say beauty is pain— even if it’s for practical purposes—and I’m not gonna lie, the treatment was no walk in the park.

Some people have extremely sweaty palms - but spraying Botox may help

A possible new method of treating excessive sweating involves blasting the palms of the hands and armpits with liquid Botox at high pressure, avoiding painful injections. A small study of this experimental technique found it improved sweating from the palms and armpits, but we need larger studies to confirm it works.

Sweating the Effects of Antiperspirants

Sweat glands do have an important role in eliminating undesirable substances from the body, but blocking “a few sweat glands under the armpit does not have a significant impact on the overall excretion of sweat...

What Makes Some People Sweat More Than Others?

A doctor’s advice for those who perspire an unusual amount and how to keep it in check.

Resources

3 Reasons You Sweat So Much—And What to Do About It

For when "glistening" is more like "sweating buckets."

5 Expert-Approved Ways to Stop Sweating FAST

As someone who has had notoriously sweaty underarms since childhood (RIP old dance costumes and all who stood near me), I’m incredibly familiar with the plight known as sweating, and the disappointing array of products designed to stop it. But even if you don’t deal with excessive sweating like I do, it doesn’t mean you’re not totally dreading the sweat-inducing heat of summer, especially if your sweat extends to your hands, feet, and, well, everywhere else.

Sweat Block

Stop excessive sweating for up to 7-days with just the dab of a towelette.

Carpe

Sweat control for all areas of your body. #StandUpToSweat

Why do I sweat so much?

The body’s largest organ, the skin, is also designed to remove heat from the body. The most noticeable way is losing heat via evaporating sweat.