Sunday, August 17, 2008

What are the Causes of Excessive Sweating?

By Victor Lorentzo


There are millions of Americans who suffer from excessive sweating, and the problems seem to become even larger every year. A limited number of researchers are trying to figure out the reasons for this. The problem with excessive sweating is both a health issue, but more it is an issue that causes problems and limitations in our social lives as well as in our professional life.

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.

Excessive sweating is often a reason of over active sweat glands. The purpose of our sweat glands is to cool the body and to eliminate toxins and bacteria found inside our body as well as toxins and bacteria that live on our skin. Sweating is actually a good thing, but for some the sweating becomes too much and it starts to interfere with how we want to live our lives.

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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