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Top 5 Surprising Sweat Facts


it’s a dirty job but your body’s got to
do it I just wanna make you swing
welcome to watchmojo.com and today is
installment we’re counting down the five
most fascinating facts about sweat the
human body is a complex machine and that
salty liquid that streams out of your
pores every time you exert yourself by
unloading the dishwasher or brushing
your teeth is one of the crucial and
voluntary functions that keeps it
running smoothly
you look tired you’re all sweaty all the
time what’s your Excuse you want to go
there Jerry Oh number five
sweating is healthy excuse me
outside I’m schvitzing like a puttin it
a picnic puberty the time when your body
kicks awkwardness into high gear
hormones gross bird’s body hair and last
but not least sweat it’s the pits while
your underarms certainly function as a
fine purveyor of the salty stuff the
average human body is covered all over
with some 2.6 million sweat glands while
we may demonize sweat socially it’s not
only natural but necessary
thermoregulation is the means by which
living things manage their own body
temperature dogs pant elephants flap
their ears and human sweat but the
health benefits don’t end there
so what helps to cleanse the body
the active sweating reduces heavy-metal
build-up as well as working to remove
bacteria from the skin cleaning out your
pores and reducing acne man I got to
make my back sweat more number four hot
and spicy food cools you down through
sweat are you okay
cuz you’re sweating pretty profusely
yeah no I’m fine I always react this way
too spicy putin looking to nudge your
thermo regulatory system in the right
direction it may seem a little
counterintuitive but spicy and hot food
helps the body cool down which is part
of why so many cultures and hot climates
have spicy cuisines I can’t believe
you’re eating Indian you hate spicy food
food or beverages that are physically
hot trigger trpv1 receptors in the mouth
which signaling high temperatures
construct the body to lower its
temperature the only way it knows how
with sweat spicy food triggers a
slightly different mechanism the key
chemical found in most spicy peppers
like jalapenos is capsaicin this
peculiar compound triggers two sensory
responses heat and pain the body reacts
in kind with its default response to
heat related pain sweating to cool
itself down some of us are lucky enough
to break into a sweat every time we eat
no I swear by the time I’m on my third
Snickers bar I am definitely not feeling
hot number 3 vegetarian sweat generally
smells better meat eaters
you’ve probably heard every argument in
favor of a vegetarian diet and nothing
has stuck you like meat end of story
what if we told you that vegetarians
smell better not just better but more
attractive so what contains pheromones
which can communicate attraction and
arousal stings the nostrils but a 2006
study published in the Oxford Journal of
Medicine explored the relation between
sweat olfactory attraction and diet the
results when exposed to nothing but the
sweat of an individual test subjects
consistently identified the sweat of non
meat eaters as more attractive more
pleasant and less intense so if you’re
looking to improve your mating game
consider cutting the meat
number two
hippo sweat is red and more useful than
yours human sweat as you know it’s
healthy it keeps you cool and if you’re
single it might just convince you to
become a vegetarian but our sweats got
nothing on hippo sweat typically mammal
sweat is thin and predominantly
water-based to maximize its cooling
potential hippo sweat on the other hand
referred to as blood sweat by early
Europeans due to its distinct pink
reddish hue is a thick waddling
secretion that serves no
thermoregulatory purposes while hippos
lack sweat glands in the traditional
sense this thick secretion works as a
natural sunscreen protecting them from
UV rays and keeping the skin organically
moisturized while simultaneously
repelling water similar to human sweat
it also helps to keep bacteria off the
body
since our sweat is in sunscreen I
personally recommend never leaving the
basement all right can you drink your
elixir of the Mongoose I’m now going to
use mocking bro number one sweat is
odorless
we know the world is full of anecdotal
evidence to the contrary smells like
like a used diaper filled with Indian
food but it’s true sweat does not have
an inherence smell to it made up of
water salt proteins fat and acids sweat
only develops a smell when mixed with
bacteria which goes to town on that
bodily fluid buffet the more prominent
eccrine sweat glands produce a thin
water heavy cooling sweat that covers
the body when active and rarely results
in smell but apocrine sweat clients
found in your armpits groin region and
other odorous zones produce a thicker
milkier sweat with higher concentrations
of fat which the naturally occurring
bacteria on your skin loves to eat
bacteria consumes the sweat resulting in
that unpleasant aroma as well as those
unsightly yellow pit stains by the size
of those pit stains I’d say it’s
half-past Miller time you hear that
girls who made fun of me in line at
Cinnabon
I don’t stink my bacteria does rawr
so will you like do a push-up or
something so that you too can experience
all of sweats sweating benefits and
would you consider trading your
sunscreen for some good old-fashioned
hippo sweat for more thermoregulatory
aka cool top tens and Cinnabon tastic
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