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Monthly Challenge
Go and Sweat!
Health Benefits of Sweating
As summer months are here, and
temperatures are getting higher in many
regions of the Northern Hemisphere, we
find ourselves in “natural saunas” - dry
or wet. Here, in Texas, we are mostly in
a humid heat, so our saunas are similar
to Turkish hammams or Russian banyas;
our readers from Arizona or New Mexico
enjoy Finnish or Scandinavian style of
sauna. Whatever our “sauna” type is, the
main benefit of it is to allow us to sweat.
Many associate sweating with being
smelly and sticky and apply negative
connotation to it, but, in fact, there is an
array of health benefits in sweating.
Here are some reasons we should sweat: fluids, which is another prevention
1. Weight Loss
When we are hot, our body is working
hard to cool it down by producing sweat. Sweat expels impurities in our skin. Those
This sweat production is using energy
and burning calories, which boosts
weight loss.
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2. Flushing out toxins
When we sweat, our skin removes toxic
compounds from the body.
A 2012 study found that sweating plays
an important role in expelling heavy
metals like mercury, lead, cadmium, and
arsenic from the body.
3. Lowering the risk of kidney stones
Sweating can be an effective way to sweat
out the salt and retain calcium in your
bones. This limits the accumulation
of salt and calcium in the kidneys and
urine, which is where the stones come
from. It is no coincidence people who
sweat tend to drink more water and
method for kidney stones.
4. Improves skin appearance
often come from environment pollution,
dirt, or makeup. No wonder after removing
them by sweat first and clean-water-shower
after, our skin radiates and glows.