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9 Things Your Sweat Is Trying To Tell You

No one likes when her face is too damp to apply makeup on summer mornings or when it seems like every white shirt you own is permanently discolored, but sweat is actually the body's (pretty brilliant) built-in cooling system. Your body temperature rises, your nervous system gives your sweat glands the green light, and moisture pops onto your skin, where it promptly (well, eventually) evaporates, cooling you down in the process...

And yet, we're constantly at battle with our sweat: trying to make it stink less, trying to stop it altogether during an important meeting, then trying to lose buckets of it at the gym. But if you stop and pay attention, all that perspiration can actually…

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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.

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.

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sweat

It's an eternal struggle when it starts being remotely nice outside – your body begins to actively sabotage you by leaving sweat marks under your armpits, on your back, under your boobs. It seems disgusting, but honestly, sweat is natural and beautiful and essential.

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.

The Science of Sweat

Sweat gets a bad rap. We blame it for stink. We accuse it of staining clothes and ruining white tees, and we react in disgust when it appears. But this ill will toward perspiration is misguided. Truth is, we need sweat...

These Engineers Have Found A Way To Use Sweat For Some Medical Tests

Engineers at the University of California Berkeley have developed a patch that can measure someone's sweat composition and sweat rate at the site of excretion.

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.

Everybody Sweats, Even Famous People

Summer is the best time of the year, because of the beach, the ocean, fresh fruit, beer, sports, and enough Vitamin D to end seasonal depression. But it comes with a cost: humiliating sweat stains. You are not alone. Look at all these sweaters.

Fact or Fiction: Can You Really Sweat Out Toxins?

There are plenty of good reasons to work up a sweat. Detoxifying your body isn’t one of them.

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.

No One Knows Why We Sweat When Were Nervous. But Scientists Have a Gross Idea

Of all the animals on Earth, humans are the best at sweating. We’ve got not one, but two sets of sweat glands: one to cool us off, and one that kicks in when we’re anxious.

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?

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.

What’s ‘Normal’ When It Comes To Sweat?

We talked to experts in several sweat-related fields — including neurology, dermatology and surgery — to get to the root of why some people sweat more than others, why we sweat more in certain situations, and how to deal. Firstly, keep in mind that everyone sweats.

Why Stress Makes You Sweat

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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

s 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.