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The human body contains a complex network of organs, tissues, and systems that work together to maintain health and life as we know it. Without even a single artery, our Achilles, or even our ears, we would not be able to survive on Earth for very long. This is the purpose of sweat glands and why we need them, although it would be incredible not to sweat all the time, it serves a greater cause. Throughout the human body though, it has been discovered that there are many different body parts or organs that we don’t necessarily need to live. If you were to get these removed, it would not affect you in any significant way.
THE PURPOSE OF SWEAT GLANDS
Starting with the sweat glands, although most people, especially athletes who play high-intensity sports such as basketball, may see as sweating as a burden that they must carry, they provide a significant part of humans that is vital for existence. We all have sweat glands throughout the body, from the armpits to the forehead, it’s there. Sweat is mainly water, but it is also partly salt. It is formed when one’s body’s temperature begins to leap. There is a small region in your brain called the hypothalamus that tells the glands to start cooling you down by producing sweat. Jodi Ganz, M.D., a dermatologist at Piedmont said,” Sweat glands release sweat onto the skin, which then evaporates and helps reduce the body’s internal temperature.” This sums up what the purpose of sweat is, but what are the pros and cons of sweating? Let’s start with the pros.
The first upside of sweating is cooling the body down, as the previous paragraph referred to. Healthline.com says that sweating benefits include detox of heavy metals, elimination of chemicals, and bacterial cleansing, which all are healthy and completely natural. Healthline also states that sweating during exercising could also bring positive benefits such as a better mood, better sleep, better energy, weight loss, and protection against germs and bacteria.
Another very controversial benefit that sweat reduces the chance of is kidney stones. National Kidney Foundation says that The more you sweat, the less you urinate, which allows for stone-causing minerals to settle and bond in the kidneys and urinary tract. Which I believe is partly true, but ever since I began working out and sweating more, I have been peeing nearly three times as much. Sweat according to byrdie.com increases not only the circulation of blood in your body, it also increases the health of the heart, aids in muscle and joint recovery, cleans out the pores in your body, and if you’re like me, you’ll like that.
Now let’s look to the dark side of sweating, the truth, the side no one looks at, except me. According to webmd.com, sweating starts with social and emotional complications. Excessive sweating causes problems in people, people with hyperhidrosis say their symptoms are intolerable or barely tolerable. The second con to sweating is a duo of deadly, life-threatening (I’m joking) fungi infections caused by sweating. The first of the duo is the Jock Itch, the lesser-known one, kind of like Scottie Pippen to Michael Jordan, still incredibly good at basketball, but he doesn’t have the popularity of Michael.
The Jock Itch is a fungal infection that takes place in the groinal area, and excessive sweating could make the Jock Itch more likely to occur. The better-known fungi infection of the two, the athlete’s foot, is a fungus infection of the feet. In both of the infections, the fungi thrive in moist conditions. Athlete’s foot often starts in between the toes, where just like the Jock Itch, excessive sweating may be severe. The final con of sweating is body odor, or an atrocious stench as some might like to refer it. It is very popular, especially for males to have body odor from sweat, but this is an easy fix. Just throw some Lynx Africa on that bad boy and you’ll be fine.
The Sweat glands are an interesting part of the human body, but the Pros are simply too good that the Cons are even in the conversation, all you have to do, to not be affected by any of the Cons, especially the social complications, is to be hygienic. Just have a shower after excessive sweating and wear new, clean clothes.
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