Transcript Sweat, sweat, sweat and again… Sweat!!!

Sweat, sweat, sweat
and again…
Sweat!!!
Sandra Boom
Georgia Vermon
Sweat = Health
• Sweating is one of
the ways we
regulate our body
temperature –
humans rely on the
evaporation of
sweat to protect
the body against a
hot environment.
• Sweat contains
a natural
antibiotic,
dermicidin, that
helps to destroy
bacteria on the
skin.
• Sweat helps to keep
our skin moist.
• Sweating of the body
and hands when we are
anxious may occur for
a reason – to help us
escape from enemies if
they try to grab us!
Sweat To The Maximum
• Women lose 180 g of sweat per
hour, when men lose 250 g.
Sweat Glands
• Apocrine glands
are found
mainly in the
armpits and
near the anus.
We each have
about 1 million
of these glands.
They are really
scent glands.
• The sweat that
comes from them
has a particular
smell in each
person, and
probably includes
‘pheromone’ scents
that send
messages to other
people.
• Eccrine glands
are responsible
for sweating
when we are
hot. We each
have about 3
million of these
glands.