Is sweating really helping you to discharge toxins?

You are in a weekly yoga class, you begin to bend, stretching your body muscles. It's so focused, you can easily continue on to such exercises.

A sweat drops down the bridge bridge and the pool on your yoga mat. The instructors will lie to you: 'Yes, sweating will help you get rid of all the toxins from your body'.

Clearly, your pores expand and your skin will soon sweat. You will continue to practice as a habit in your free time and feel lighter. Even it feels like it helps you clean up the negative emotions. Certainly some of that excitement is due to your new non-toxic state, right?

Sweating is the end of the road for toxins - metabolism with the environment.

The problem is: Your skin is not really a secretory organ . Yoga, like all other exercise, is great for you if you practice correctly. Indeed, strong activity helps the body eliminate toxins by increasing circulation of lymphatic and blood fluids, filtered by the corresponding lymph nodes and kidneys. (Any toxins filtered by lymph nodes are reabsorbed in the blood and removed by the kidneys.) The liver also filters out some waste products in the gallbladder.

The fact is, sweating is the end of the road for toxins - metabolism with the environment. The goal of perspiration is not to purify the body, to release toxins but to cool the body through evaporation.

Sweat from the sweat glands - the parts that cover most of the body - are 99% water and contain only very small amounts of salt, urea and carbohydrates, all of which are natural by-products of metabolic processes. of body.

The urinary sweat glands, combined with hair follicles in the armpits and groin, release some fat along with water. When decomposed by bacteria on the skin, these substances have a characteristic odor of a person who is stressed or has been practicing very actively.

Fat may contain a random amount of fat-soluble toxins, but sweat glands are not a major route to remove them from the body. Any toxic substance that can be collected by the body's filters, scientifically thought out, will penetrate into you, not something that drenches your clothes.

So, instead of being quiet and spending time listening to a person who teaches lies about poison sweat, perhaps you can use a physiological textbook (or this post) to clarify a bit. with your own reasoning.