Sunday, August 3, 2008

What are the Causes of Excessive Sweating?

By Victor Lorentzo


Problems with excessive sweating are growing and about 10 million Americans are suffering from it. The problem is both an health issue, as well as a social and professional issue for those who experience its evil. People who are suffering from excessive sweating often tend to hide their problem; avoiding situations that could help them improve their lives and their profession.

The causes for excessive sweating is many and often complicated to deal with. The purpose of this article is to give you an overwiev of some of the more common reasons why some sweat too much. The article will also try to give you some guidelines towards how to deal with the issue. Excessive sweating is in some cases inherited. This does not mean that you cant put a stop to it.

Over active sweat glands is the main reason why we sweat to much. There are several reasons why our sweat glands become over active. The purpose of our sweat glands is to cool the body and at the same time get rid of excessive toxins and bacteria that operate inside our body and on our skin in the areas we sweat.

An unhealthy lifestyle is a common threat among excessive sweaters. This is not a rule, and many healthy people sweat more than what is considered common. Still, fat, sugar and salt does not help at all if you want to stop sweating too much. Lack of activity and movement is also not helping you. If you start to exercise regularly and start picking healthier ingredients in your food you will see an improvement in how much you sweat.

Other lifestyle products that cause you to sweat more are cigarettes, alcohol and some drugs. All the mentioned products include a lot of toxics and poison that needs to be eliminated out of your body. A lot of this work is done by your sweat glands. These same products will also make your heart work harder witch result in a higher activity. This will also bring you to sweat more in the body's work of cooling down your body.

Bacteria are an important reason why we sweat too much. Materials found in soaps and antiperspirants get stored in your armpits when you use different types of hygiene products. By changing to more natural hygiene products you make it less of a work involved in eliminating the bacteria flora in your armpits.

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