What causes some people to sweat more than others?
Written by admin on February 23, 2010 – 9:42 pm -I am very athletic and in fairly good shape. I’m 6’0 168 lbs. I exercise outside 2 hours minimum everyday. I am a high school senior and i have always sweat more than everyone else in my Physed class. By the end of class, my entire shirt is soaked in sweat but my peers will sweat only a little bit. My dad also sweats with minimal activity. Is this genitic or just my body type?
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By pink_sfr on Feb 23, 2010 | Reply
genes i guess.. i have a sweating problem! and im 4’9 and in good shape too!1 haha
By vasan_ven on Feb 23, 2010 | Reply
It is body type.
By lizology101 on Feb 23, 2010 | Reply
It’s genetic.
By ljpeterson1956 on Feb 23, 2010 | Reply
Hormones, overactive sweat glands, and good health. Sweat is a mechanism to cool the body down, and it sounds like you are very active. Probably does your body good. I have the oposite problem,…when I get too warm from excersion, my face dries out, I stop sweating, and I feel like I’m gonna pass out, faint, throw up, or die. I can feel my heart in my head. So, sweat is a good thing. I don’t know if it’s hereditary. A doctor should be able to answer questions better and maybe even treat if it’s too much.
By kligor on Feb 23, 2010 | Reply
Several factors: how much body hair you have, your genes, and your testosterone level (higher testosterone = more sweat). However, counterintuitive as it may seem, athletes have lower T levels than sedentary folks, so it’s probably more a combination of the first two.
By sleeptalker on Feb 24, 2010 | Reply
it is your genetics.
wear lots of antiperspirant, it will help keep odor away,also add powder to your socks, wear socks, they help control sweating feet.
By spinoza_19 on Feb 24, 2010 | Reply
In humans, sweating is primarily a means of temperature regulation. Evaporation of sweat from the skin surface has a cooling effect due to the latent heat of evaporation of water. Hence, in hot weather, or when the individual’s muscles heat up due to exertion, more sweat is produced. Sweating is increased by nervousness and nausea and decreased by cold. Animals with few sweat glands, such as dogs, accomplish similar temperature regulation results by panting, which evaporates water from the moist lining of the oral cavity and pharynx.
people have different things in this part:
Eccrine
Eccrine sweat glands, which are distributed over the entire body surface. These produce sweat that is composed chiefly of water with various salts. These glands are used for body temperature regulation.
Eccrine sweat glands are coiled tubular glands derived from the outer layer of skin but extending into the inner layer. They are distributed over almost the entire surface of the body in humans and many other species, but are lacking in some marine and fur-bearing species. The sweat glands are controlled by sympathetic cholinergic nerves which are controlled by a centre in the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus senses core temperature directly, and also has input from temperature receptors in the skin and modifies the sweat output, along with other thermoregulatory processes.
Human eccrine sweat is composed chiefly of water with various salts and organic compounds in solution. It contains minute amounts of fatty materials, urea, and other wastes. The concentration of sodium varies from 35–65 mmol/l and is lower in people acclimatised to a hot environment. The sweat of other species generally differ in composition.
Apocrine
For other uses of the word apocrine, see: apocrine gland
Apocrine sweat glands produce sweat that contains fatty materials. These glands are mainly present in the armpits and around the genital area and their activity is the main cause of sweat odour, due to the bacteria that break down the organic compounds in the sweat from these glands. Emotional stress increases the production of sweat from the apocrine glands, or more precisely: the sweat already present in the tubule is squeezed out. Apocrine sweat glands essentially serve as scent glands. East Asian people typically have markedly fewer of these glands compared to people of other ethnicities [1], which is why East Asian people generally do not emit such odors.
In some areas of the body, these sweat glands are modified to produce wholly different secretions, however, including the cerumen (“wax”) of the outer ear. Others are greatly enlarged and modified to produce milk.
By Josh on Feb 24, 2010 | Reply
Dear Swampy,
Someone with more knowledge on the subject may tell you to stay away from such treatments, but I have a friend that got botox treatments for her underarms to reduce sweating.
Doesnt sound completely healthy to me, preventing your body from performing a natural reaction (cooling your body) but if your worried about the amount you sweat, may be worth checking out.