Sweatology+MA

Sweatology Article or Skin the largest organ (Thanks Kat) (1) Why is sweat like your personal air-conditioner and why is that important? (2) The human body can tolerate cooling. How much? Give examples. (3) The human body can not tolerate over heating. How much? Give examples. (4) Why do we think humans evolved sweat glands? Give examples. (5) Describe some of the variation in the amount of sweat glands. Give examples. (6) What happens during menopause with respect to sweat? Give examples. (7) What happens as we age? Why is that dangeous? Give examples. (8) Is clothing good or bad when it comes to sweat? Why? Give examples. (9) Describe what happens during heat acclimation. Give examples. (10) Who is "Adam"? Why is he being used for scientific experimentation?
 * The body can only heat up 6 or 7 degrees without the brain malfunctioning. Due to our intolerance to heating up our body has its own cooling system which is sweat.
 * The body can tolerate 20 degrees of cooling. We can recover from hypothermia.
 * The body can only tolerate a 6-7 degree rise in fever and 110 degree rise internally.
 * When we lost hair we developed sweat glands which enabled us to have an active lifestyle in hot temperatures.
 * Some people have less than two million sweat glands and some people have four million. People who sweat more may have bigger glands and have glands that are more sensitive to nerve stimuli making them more likely to sweat.
 * During menopause the temperature taker in the brain thinks that it is hot and the body needs to sweat even though it doesn't need to. So during menopause people sweat when they don't need to.
 * At about 60 both sexes don't detect the heat as well which causes them to sweat less which then leads to heat stroke.
 * When you wear a lot of clothes you sweat less and when you wear less clothes you sweat more. This was tested in World War 2. The soldiers were clothed and unclothed and the soldiers that were unclothed sweat more.
 * 1) Internal temperatures climb
 * 2) profuse amount of sweat
 * 3) lose a lot of salt which causes great pain
 * 4) if the person keeps sweating their salt loss goes away and their endurance improves.
 * Example of this would be if global warming happens and we are all over heated we would go through heat acclimation.
 * Adam sweats just like a person and is tested for astronauts to wear underneath their space suits.