Fitness: Health Benefits of Sweating while you working out.

Sweating during a workoutis a good thing but is it indicative of how hard you worked hard...

Sweating is very cleansing for your body. Various cultures throughout time have embraced this fact as demonstrated by the prevalent uses of sweat lodges, bath houses and steam rooms in numerous traditions. When you sweat, your body undergoes a series of processes that allow for the release of toxins and an increase in metabolism.

What Is Sweat?

Sweat is made up mostly of water but also contains minerals, urea, lactic acid, ammonia and sugar. Sweating is your bodies way of regulating its temperature. When you run long distances or exercise in hot weather, for example, your muscles exert themselves and your body overheats. Sweating is your body's way of bringing your temperature back to normal.


While many go to great lengths to avoid it, sweating actually has many important health- and beauty-related benefits. Your skin is the largest organ of your body, and serves important roles just like any other bodily organ.

For example, sweating helps your body:

•Maintain proper temperature and keep you from overheating.

•Clean the pores, which will help eliminate blackheads and acne.

•Expel toxins, which supports proper immune function and helps prevent diseases related to toxic overload

•Helps improve blood circulationKill viruses and bacteria that cannot survive in temperatures above 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit.

•Helps relieve stress and promote relaxation.


All of these benefits promote general health, and recent research1,2,3,4,5 has even shown that regularsauna use correlates to a reduced risk of death from any cause, including lethal cardiovascular events.

Why is it that after aworkout, some of us sweat so much we look like we did our run in a pool, while the rest of us look as dry as we did before the workout even started?

For example Men who used the sauna (Finnish-style, dry heat sauna) seven times per week cut their risk of death from fatal heart problems in half, compared to those who only used it once each week.

One mechanism for this beneficial effect is thought to be related to the fact that sauna therapy places stress on your heart and body similar to that of exercise.


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