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Is Sweating Good for You?

Is Sweating Good for You?

by Rachael Carter

Everybody sweats. It's a natural body function. But is sweating good for you? Is sweating healthy? Does sweating a lot mean that you are degraded somehow? Or that you aren't hygienic enough?

Without sweat, your skin and your body as a whole wouldn't be able to perform one of the most basic and useful functions ever - thermoregulation.

Read on to see how sweating is an important activity conducted by your body and in fact, it isn't sweating that makes you smell bad! Intrigued?

Your Sweat Doesn't Smell Bad, but the Bacteria on Your Skin Producing Waste Do

You might not believe it, but it isn't your sweat that actually smells bad.

It's the bacteria that are always present on the skin that are the real culprits. These bacteria break down the acids that are present in your sweat and create waste products. These waste products are the ones that create your body odor.

Your sweat glands are located in three primary locations, in your armpits, your breasts, and your genital-anal area. And these are the areas that smell the most odorous, as you might have noticed.

Again, it's not your sweat that smells malefic, but the bacteria's waste products. That's why you don't need to start berating yourself, or your body for performing a very useful function, i.e., sweating.

The answer to the question, is sweating good for you, is hopefully becoming clearer to you.

Evolution isn't a foolish taskmaster - there's a reason why sweating developed as a body function at all. Let's look at some sweating benefits.

1. Thermoregulation

Even though you might hate the idea of sweating when you are working out, because it makes you smell, there's actually a point to all that liquid gushing out of your armpits and temples.

Sweating is one of the most important ways your body regulates its body temperature. If you didn't have the capability of sweating, you wouldn't be able to go to very hot or very cold places, because your body wouldn't be able to adjust to those extreme temperatures fast enough.

The minute you step from an airconditioned room into the heat outside, or you start working out, your body starts making rapid adjustments. Like a thermostat works at ensuring your room stays at a certain temperature, your body does the same. It does everything it can to ensure your body's temperature stays within an appropriate range.

As soon as anything outside your body causes you to overheat or cool down too much, your body goes into reparation mode. When it's hot outside, you sweat, so that the water evaporating off your skin cools you down, and helps with body temperature regulation.

When it's cold outside, your body closes off all the sweat ducts and constricts the blood vessels so that it doesn't let go of too much precious body warmth.

Your body is so beautifully and intricately built, and it's amazing to see how it uses different techniques to keep itself at homeostasis. Sweating is an important tool that evolution has bestowed us with.

2. Pheromones

You might not have known this, but there's a very important reason why you sweat - to catch a potential mate. Got your attention now? Well, research has shown that male sweat has this one chemical that is known to boost women's arousal levels. Basically, male sweat contains pheromones, which is necessary to attract a mate, evolutionarily speaking.

Scent is seductive. That's why you slather on perfume or cologne every time you go out on a date or to an important meeting. But it isn't only artificial scents that matter. Body odors are important in attracting the right mate.

In fact, if you are on birth control pills as a woman, it has been proven that your preference for the scent of males changes, which might cause you to choose males with the same MHC genes as you. This is a negative because the more diverse the MHC genes, the more robust your child's immune system would be.

Your sweat contains powerful clues about you, and presents that to the world, and to potential partners. You might only be thinking negatively of your sweat, but it has a silent albeit important role to play in your propagating path.

3. Waste Removal

In stressful situations, the two main modes of excreting waste products might not be enough. Normally, you rely upon your kidneys and liver to excrete toxins and waste. And that usually works fine.

But if you are living under stressful or polluted conditions, it puts an extra strain on your body. At these times, your body turns to your skin (your body's largest organ) to pitch in. When you sweat, you won't be sweating out only water, and a few salts, but toxins as well.

When you have a tense argument with your spouse or partner, your sweat smells especially rank afterward. It's because your body is trying to get rid of extra waste and toxins, and is using your armpits and sweat glands to do so.

In fact, your underarms will produce 30 times more sweat when you are stressed than when you are at rest. Wowza!

This is a great indicator for you. When you notice that your sweat is especially stinky, you can use it as a gauge for how stressful your life is, and amp up the self-care routines you perform to keep your mental sanity.

Is Sweating Good for You - Absolutely Yes

In conclusion, sweating isn't as bad as you imagined. Even if you like sweating or not, it's here to stay. Unless you are somehow able to transfer your memories into an AI robot. Still, a lot of time before that happens!

Now if someone asks you, is sweating good for you? You can reply with a resounding yes.

Sweating is useful in maintaining tiptop body function, and it doesn't smell, unless the bacteria on our skin start doing their thing.

If you are interested in learning more about a deodorant that stops body odor by stopping the odor reaction caused by bacteria on our skin, look no further than Lume Whole Body Deodorant.

And although sweating is actually a good thing and serves a purpose, there are times when it can be a real nuisance and it’s nice to have options to reduce wetness. Just like body odor, sweat can be optional with Lume Deodorant plus Sweat Control.

So whether you want to do something about body odor, sweat, or both, Lume’s got you covered.

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Rachael Carter

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