Sorry, hot yoga fans. Sweating doesn't cleanse your body.
Excerpt: Gross Anatomy
by Mara Altman August 21, 2018
We all sweat. Why do we find it so gross?
Sweating is not only entirely and utterly normal, but also necessary, so I wanted to know what gave the liquid such a toxic societal association. I began looking to the past. Something must have happened during sweat’s upbringing that caused it to turn from an everyday Joe into a villain. I felt like a therapist trying to figure out why my patient began to enjoy dismantling gophers. Something had happened during his formative years, but what?
It took some time, but while searching through old medical journals and studies, I discovered a German medical historian and doctor, Michael Stolberg, who’d spent more than a year trying to untangle our ancestors’ views on sweat.
https://www.popsci.com/sweat-gross-anatomy
