Why do people believe that you can sweat out toxins?

Question

I keep hearing people say that you can sweat out toxins. In medical physiology books and anatomy books I can find no mechanism for sweat glands or the body to sweat out toxins. Still, these naturopathic or homepathic or ... people keep telling everyone that you can sweat out toxins. Go figure!

Kathy_is_a_nurse, you asked me rhetorically where do I think sweat come from. Well, I think, based on anatomy and physiology text books and my Master's in Immunochemistry, that sweat comes from sweat glands where sweat is MADE by the sweat gland in response to cholinergic innervation. Sweat glands don't work like kidney's where filtering takes place. That's where I think sweat comes from. And that's why I'm curious about the silly idea that we sweat out toxins. And the reason I'm asking is because I'm always willing to learn something new, but so far no one has offered any credible references on this topic.

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Answer 2

That's exactly what you're doing, only believing everything you read that's differentiating and frankly your sources are more than bias. There isn't any connection with spray and breast cancer, just that where its generally sprayed the rates of cancer lumps there have increased by 100% since its introduction, thats all. Oh and sweating when you have an autoimmune disease does release harmful toxins, my mum takes internal ph balancers, they are found in sweat, you can test for a multitude of autoimmune illnesses based on sweat collection. Yeah and by the way, if you don't believe everything you read then why are you taking myth at its wrong meaning? Myth never meant falsification until hansburg altered it for a fairytale story, it's still used in medical and social research as a synonom for social truth. Good one. I guess if you knew so much about medicine and health then you'd know that right?

Answer 3

People beleive sweating removes toxins because that's what they have been told. I myself beleived it until the question came up and I did the research. I am not a doctor and was simply naive to the truth.

Sweat is 99% pure water. Sweating cools your body temperature and dehydrates you in the process. By sweating, you dehydrate which causes your kidneys to retain water and in doing so RETAIN TOXINS. That's right, sweating can actually keep toxins in your body if you fail to replace the water that was lost. Toxins are not removed through sweat glands. They are removed by the kidneys, liver and intestines. The other 1% of your sweat is made up of salt, carbohydrates and urea, none of which are toxic.

So why do people beleive you can sweat out toxins? Because someone told them they could and that someone was dead WRONG.

Answer 4

Here are two articles, one says you do sweat toxins another says it is a myth. That is why people believe you can, because of so much conflicting information.

Answer 5

The skin has multiple functions including helping to eliminate waste (toxins) from the body. Where do you think sweat comes from? It comes from the same source as any other fluid in your body. Consequently, it can pick up the same products in the system as other flluids. While to a lesser extent than the kidneys, sweat can "help" eliminate toxins from the body.

One significant example are diabetics. When their blood sugar is out of control, their kidneys start excreting ketones through the urine, which are poisonous to the body. So do the sweat glands. Anyone who has been around a diabetic recognizes the tell-tale smell of a diabetic who has a high blood sugar. Ketones have a slightly fermented fruity smell and you can smell it because the body is sweating it out of the system.

Answer 6

Well, you can sweat out metabolites so...maybe that's what we think. When we say toxins, we're thinking "by-products we no longer need that our body is trying to get out." They come out in all sorts of ways. So...the operational definition of toxin is key here.

Answer 7

Its not a matter of scientifical proof that you can sweat out toxins. Its about believing you can sweat out toxins. It's all in your head. For those who believe it, they'll go on feeling refreshed and great after a sweaty workout just because they sweat. And if he feels great, whats the problem?

Answer 8

exercising is the best way to detoxify, because the toxins are removed thru perspiration, we need to be correctly hydrated to dilute the accumulated toxins from our body. Skin is the largest organ and it has sweat glands that help u every moment by clearing us from the toxins, so be thankful of the fact that yes sweating does detoxify us or we would have been in great danger. www.fitnesshigh.com

Answer 9

La sudoración excesiva es un problema que comienza como “algo pequeño”, pero que con el pasar del tiempo se vuelve una condición traumante para quien la sufre, pudiendo desencadenar en depresión, aumento de estrés y ansiedad, disminución de la vida social, entre tantas otras situaciones negativas.
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Answer 10

That is more of a statement and not a question? Why did Yahoo Answers Delete 4 of my Answers in a 24 hour period?

Answer 11

When you speak of "medical physiology books and anatomy books," you are only referencing one authority -- that of the allopathic model aside from neutral references of Biology as found in the texts on Anatomy.

'Careful about this... Absence of evidence of the truth that you can sweat out toxins in the one-- as claimed by one medical modality -- is not evidence of absence in still another model, which can be just as viable.

Beware of fallacies. Anyone who perspires, urinates, defecates and even breathes outward -- is ridding him- or herself of toxins or pathogens...

'Nothing exotic about this notion, this truth!