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Sweatology

Sweatology Article or Skin the largest organ (Thanks Kat) Make a unique wiki page. Copy and paste questions. The article is an attachment below. (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?

1.	Sweat is like a personal air-conditioner because it cools off the body and releases excess energy. It regulates the body’s internal temperature so it is able to                        perform all of its daily functions.

2.	The body can handle cooling of 20 degrees below normal temperature. It can recover from long periods of hyperthermia.

3.	The body can only tolerate about twelve degrees of temperature above normal. 110 degrees farenheit is known as the upper limit in order to live.

4.	Human evolved sweat glands so that they could live in places that get to be above 90 degrees farenheit. We also developed sweat glands so that our bodies can tolerate exercise. We needed to perform some kind of exercise to get resources, probably food or water. Sweating allowed us to work harder to get what we need.

5.	The number of sweat glands a person has varies depending on the person’s weight, age, sex, and genes. Some people also just have larger sweat glands than others. One person’s sweat glands could be up to five times the size of another person’s.

6.	During menopause, the sweat glands imagine heat where it may not be. Excessive sweat is a common occurance.

7.	For whatever reason, we sweat less as we age. This decrease in sweat becomes dangerous during heat waves for example. When elderly people are not able to        sweat enough under situations of extreme heat, their body temperature will raise. They are more at risk for heat stroke.

8.	Clothing is good when it comes to sweat because the material absorbs some of the external heat. There is less heat entering the body and the body doesn’t have to work as hard to cool off. It doesn’t have to produce as much sweat.

9.	During heat acclimation, the body adjusts to higher temperatures in order to be able to perform work as efficiently as in cooler temperatures. Athletes training in       hot climates at first experience large amounts of sweat, feelings of illness and body salt loss. After a few weeks however, they sweat even more but feel better and have more balance internally.

10.	Adam was a life-like mannequin created to replicate the sweating conditions of a human. He has been used in creating clothing for astronauts and soldiers, and he has helped car companies make full more efficient by determining the effect iof air conditioning on the body.