Sweating - a natural process and even usefulto maintain normal body temperature. Evaporation of sweat from the skin surface takes place with heat absorption body and thus cools. That is, this process is vital to us to ensure that we do not faint from the heat, and overheating.

How much water we lose?
The human skin has 2 million sweat glands. How much they allocate MOISTURE, DEPENDS
FROM? Aslichnyh conditions:
- In a usual, not too hot day, up to 900 ml of perspiration is released.
- At an average physical load in the fitness room, about one liter of moisture is »squeezed out» per hour.
- Running at an average pace - is lost to two liters of liquid per hour.
- Marathon - up to four liters of sweat per hour.

Known fact that during the competitionIronman triathlon in Hawaii, some participants lost up to 15 liters of fluid during the execution of the combined 17-hour program (3.8 km swimming, 180.25 km cycling marathon 42.195 km).

How is this smell? What tricks do not we go, trying tohot day to avoid the smell of sweat. Someone almost out of the shower, while others are poured from head to head in perfumery. At the same time (this is a surprise!) The original moisture, which allocates our body, has absolutely no smell.

What a twist. You know that babies never smelllater? They smell sweet milk and baby powder. And all because they are only so called ekkrinnye sweat glands are located all over the body. At puberty, a person start to work apocrine glands under the armpits and in the groin. Sweat produced in these warm places easily colonized by bacteria. In the presence of these »boyfriends» there is nothing to worry about. The problem is that the skin in the armpits area prefer those bacteria which, highlighting their waste products provoke the unpleasant smell of sweat.