There’s a difference between heat-induced sweating and stress sweat. Not only does emotional sweat smell different, but it’s also caused by a totally different mechanism. Regular sweat (like you have at the gym) comes from the eccrine glands, which cover most of the body. Stress sweat is...
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Just last summer vacation, one day, I saw Grandma Hu, who lives downstairs with two heavy bags of garbage in her hands, hunched back and buried her head, struggling to walk to the garbage room under the scorching sun, and constantly wiping the sweat from her forehead. I thought to mysel...
So Why Does Sweat Stink? Sweat itself is “generally odorless,” explainsMarisa Garshick, MD, a dermatologist and assistant clinical professor at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. It’s only partially responsible for the malodorous musk scientifically known as bromhidrosis. “Body ...
Does she lean toward you – as if sharing a secret – when you talk?– Personal space is vital and women know this better than anyone. As a matter of fact, almost every man has experienced the pain of getting into a woman’s personal space too fast; however, if a woman leans toward...
Wear wicking fabrics, so that sweat can still cool you through your clothes.Long-sleeved sun shirtscan help a lot here. For indoor workouts: Use your air conditioning, or go to an air-conditioned gym. Not only does A/C make the air cooler, it also dries it out, which gives it better...
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How does the genetic mechanism work for inheriting red hair? It involves receiving a recessive allele from each parent. The red hair trait is primarily associated with the MC1R gene on chromosome 16. For an individual to have red hair, they must inherit two copies of the mutated gene, one...
Why does the sweat of some people's underarms turn their shirts yellow? Sweat Glands There are two types of sweat glands present in the skin. They are the apocrine glands and eccrine glands. Apocrine glands open into the hair follicles which lead to the surface of the skin. Eccrine ...
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