| Everyone knows that body sweat is not just water. It | | | | find out what happens to the concentrations in our |
| contains waste products, salts, and trace elements. A | | | | bodies due to regular activities.Since some people |
| sauna treatment makes you sweat. Aerobic activity | | | | sweat more profusely than others, are they losing |
| makes you sweat. Elevated temperatures stimulate | | | | more important trace elements than others?Chromium |
| sweating...So it is important to consider whether we | | | | has been found to be a significant trace element in |
| are just losing body waste (that we do not want) | | | | diabetes. Research has shown that the toenails of |
| whenever we sweat profusely, or are we losing | | | | people with type 2 diabetes have lower chromium |
| important elements.Not the usual | | | | concentration those of than non-diabetics.Before you |
| hyperhidrosisConcerns about excessive sweating or | | | | sweat it out...It is quite clear that there is no adverse |
| hyperhidrosis is mostly has to do with the occurrence | | | | effects of excessive sweat from physical exercise, |
| of excessive underarm sweat or sweaty palms. | | | | manual work, or sauna bathing. However, researchers |
| These are usually treated with topical antiperspirants | | | | warn that diet should be adequate in order to replenish |
| and even surgery.People who are diabetic, as in | | | | lost minerals.We also note thatSweating is a normal |
| hypoglycemia, may experience excessive sweat as a | | | | body function. It eliminates wastes and serves for |
| symptom. But what about about profuse body | | | | thermo-regulation at the same time.From the research, |
| perspiration under normal physical activity? Do we lose | | | | trace elements in sweat from the under arm tended to |
| important trace elements when this | | | | be lower in concentration than that from other areas |
| happens?Research on the concentrations of trace | | | | of the body.A normal healthy diet is able to offset any |
| elements in sweatResearchers at a Japanese | | | | loss of trace elements from the body under normal |
| university investigated the concentrations of trace | | | | conditions such as in Infrared sauna treatments. There |
| elements in sweat during sauna bathing. They | | | | was no indication of the researchers showing any |
| compared the concentrations of the major elements | | | | concern regarding the occasional sauna baths, or |
| and trace elements in sweat collected under arm with | | | | regular exercise.Researchers expressed some |
| the concentrations from the whole body.Note that the | | | | concern regarding "athletes and workers who work in |
| major elements mentioned in the study include sodium, | | | | a hot environment and sweat much habitually." They |
| chlorine or chloride, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, and | | | | recommend that these persons should ingest |
| magnesium.Sweat also has trace elements, those | | | | adequate amounts of trace elements. A balanced diet |
| found in lower concentrations, such as zinc, copper, | | | | can take care of this.Continue to exercise, eat right, |
| iron, nickel, chromium, and manganese. These "trace | | | | and be healthy. |
| elements" are vital to our health, so it is interesting to | | | | |