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how to dress to avoid sweating?

Have you ever arrived at the office, in your home, sweating or wrinkled? shirt or your jacketAfter walking only 15 minutes to the metro?

 

Of course! Because our sweating is related to our activity and stress levels, we are just as concerned with this problem when we lead our hectic city lives as when we play sports. The challenge is to remain presentable afterwards in front of our clients or our team!

 

How to dress to avoid sweating and stay stylish? What materials should you use? We're tackling the subject today so that you don't have to wear shirts that stick to your skin in the future!

Why do we sweat? And how do we sweat?

Sweating is the body's way of regulating its temperature around 37°C. Thus, following a physical effort, exposure to heat or even a stressful situation (the body anticipates the increase in temperature linked to the fight or flight!), a natural mechanism will be put in place.

At the behest of our hypothalamus, our 3 million sweat glands embedded in the dermis will activate to trap body heat in tiny droplets, and evaporate them through the pores of the epidermis. This evaporation will cool the body (if our clothes do not prevent it!) and thus lower our temperature.

The sweat glands, which are distributed throughout the body, are more concentrated on the soles of the feet, the palms of the hands, the forehead, the armpits and the chest. This is why we sweat more in these areas.

They are of two types.

 

Firstly, the glands eccrinesThey are the most numerous. They evacuate an average of 0.8 litres of perspiration per day through the pores of the skin. The liquid evacuated consists of 99% of water and mineral salts.

 

The glands apocrine are located under the armpits and around the pubis. They are attached to a hair, not a pore. They eliminate a few millilitres per day of a more viscous liquid (it includes sebum), rich in proteins and even pheromones.

Sweat has no smell! But the bacteria present on our skin (more than 10 million staphylococci or corynebacteria under our armpits alone) feed on the proteins of the apocrine gland fluid...and produce malodorous waste when they decompose! Obviously, hair, folds and poorly ventilated environments will accentuate this unfavourable environment.

Recently, a team of researchers from Oxford University has even discovered that this "waste", which is very light and therefore very volatile, travels. They are transported by our natural vapours thanks to a protein produced by our own perspiration (https://elifesciences.org/articles/34995).

In summary, this is a pedagogical film very well done by the hospitals in Geneva.

To reduce the impact of this combined phenomenon (perspiration = odour) the choice of our clothing is therefore crucial.

 

Firstly, you need to select the right layers of clothing, and secondly, you need to choose the right materials to allow ideal THERMOREGULATION.

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