Can You Sweat Out Toxins?

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  • boredloser
    boredloser Posts: 119 Member
    edited August 2017
    Pee them out :smiley: Thanks liver!
  • earlnabby
    earlnabby Posts: 8,171 Member
    Well, I do spend 5 minutes in the steam room after my 2.5 hours in the pool (laps and water aerobics) and my skin does not smell of chlorine. Maybe I am sweating it out of my pores.

    No, you do not sweat out "toxins" coursing through your various systems. Your liver and kidneys get rid of them.
  • RAinWA
    RAinWA Posts: 1,980 Member
    My niece swore she was sweating toxins from the soles of her feet during hot yoga. :o
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,625 Member
    RAinWA wrote: »
    My niece swore she was sweating toxins from the soles of her feet during hot yoga. :o

    Tinea is not a toxin ;):D
  • snickerscharlie
    snickerscharlie Posts: 8,578 Member
    RAinWA wrote: »
    snickerscharlie wrote: »
    RAinWA wrote: »
    My niece swore she was sweating toxins from the soles of her feet during hot yoga. :o

    She needs these:

    ky1e3amxpiue.jpg

    B)

    She had them! Teenage girls will believe anything!

    Sadly, this kind of hokum isn't just limited to teenage girls. ;)
  • Dnarules
    Dnarules Posts: 2,081 Member
    snickerscharlie wrote: »
    RAinWA wrote: »
    My niece swore she was sweating toxins from the soles of her feet during hot yoga. :o

    She needs these:

    ky1e3amxpiue.jpg


    Detox Pads - sucks those toxins right out of you through your feet. B)

    I think they claim you can do the same thing with onions?
  • snickerscharlie
    snickerscharlie Posts: 8,578 Member
    Dnarules wrote: »
    snickerscharlie wrote: »
    RAinWA wrote: »
    My niece swore she was sweating toxins from the soles of her feet during hot yoga. :o

    She needs these:

    ky1e3amxpiue.jpg


    Detox Pads - sucks those toxins right out of you through your feet. B)

    I think they claim you can do the same thing with onions?

    Nowhere near as effective, because onions are cheap. ;)
  • whitpauly
    whitpauly Posts: 1,483 Member
    If we don't sweat out toxins then why can you smell people who drink heavily the night before in the gym? Comes out of their pores it seems
  • Sassafras106
    Sassafras106 Posts: 73 Member
    ccsernica wrote: »
    Sassafras106 wrote: »
    RAinWA wrote: »
    snickerscharlie wrote: »
    RAinWA wrote: »
    My niece swore she was sweating toxins from the soles of her feet during hot yoga. :o

    She needs these:

    ky1e3amxpiue.jpg

    B)

    She had them! Teenage girls will believe anything!

    Actually, I have an adult friend, in her thirties that uses bath salts and tells me she can see the toxins from her body in the bath water.

    Tell her it's called "dirt" and is commonly found only on the outside of the body.

    I've always wanted to tell her to clean her bathtub!

  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,086 Member
    kshama2001 wrote: »
    To continue the toxin/sweat convo from http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10588569/waist-training/p1

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/well/live/can-you-sweat-out-toxins.html
    Think about it. A "toxin" is a poison. Like snake venom for example. So can one literally sweat "poison" out of there sweat glands if they have a normal respiratory and excretory system? Lol, you lick yourself and actually get "poisoned"?

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  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,086 Member
    edited August 2017
    whitpauly wrote: »
    If we don't sweat out toxins then why can you smell people who drink heavily the night before in the gym? Comes out of their pores it seems
    Lol, because they are still metabolizing alcohol and you smell it from their breath.
    In case you didn't know, alcohol cannot be stored in the body, so it has to totally metabolized out. And during that time, no other energy sources are being used. So no fat, no carbs.

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  • earlnabby
    earlnabby Posts: 8,171 Member
    suzannesimmons3 wrote: »
    I sweat garlic smell out of my pores only because I am one of those strange people who's body cannot metabolise certain compounds. I'd still say if toxins are coming out of your pores your seriously buggered and need a hospital and possibly a priest.

    Yup. There is a difference between a compound not being fully metabolized and sweated out and actual toxins being sweated out.
  • scarlett_k
    scarlett_k Posts: 812 Member
    edited August 2017
    Well I guess sweat has "toxins" in it in the form of urea, ammonia, sodium, chloride, and other "chemicals" but so does your body. Sweat contains small amounts of these.
    ninerbuff wrote: »
    kshama2001 wrote: »
    To continue the toxin/sweat convo from http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10588569/waist-training/p1

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/well/live/can-you-sweat-out-toxins.html
    Think about it. A "toxin" is a poison. Like snake venom for example. So can one literally sweat "poison" out of there sweat glands if they have a normal respiratory and excretory system? Lol, you lick yourself and actually get "poisoned"?

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    The dose makes the poison. Sweat contains ammonia and urea for starters - both of which would poison you if ingested in a great enough quantity.
  • scarlett_k
    scarlett_k Posts: 812 Member
    Also, shouldn't this go in the discussion/debate section? It doesn't seem to have much to do with general diet and weight loss help...
  • GottaBurnEmAll
    GottaBurnEmAll Posts: 7,722 Member
    I see some people didn't read the article.

    As to ammonia and urea in sweat, they're waste products from metabolism and them being present in sweat is the sweat doing it's job.

    You're making an argument that our own waste would kill us, we don't need help for the process of metabolism to function properly like some people think we do which is the genesis of "sweat out your toxins!" and other similar things like that. Digesting protein is a normal bodily function.

  • stevencloser
    stevencloser Posts: 8,911 Member
    scarlett_k wrote: »
    Well I guess sweat has "toxins" in it in the form of urea, ammonia, sodium, chloride, and other "chemicals" but so does your body. Sweat contains small amounts of these.
    ninerbuff wrote: »
    kshama2001 wrote: »
    To continue the toxin/sweat convo from http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10588569/waist-training/p1

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/well/live/can-you-sweat-out-toxins.html
    Think about it. A "toxin" is a poison. Like snake venom for example. So can one literally sweat "poison" out of there sweat glands if they have a normal respiratory and excretory system? Lol, you lick yourself and actually get "poisoned"?

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    The dose makes the poison. Sweat contains ammonia and urea for starters - both of which would poison you if ingested in a great enough quantity.

    So is water. I have yet to see anyone unironically refer to water as a toxin or poison though.
  • LynnJ9
    LynnJ9 Posts: 414 Member
    So I guess the question is, is sweating good for you? My husband believes it is very good for the body. I hate to sweat, I sweat when I work out, but I certainly don't purposely try to sweat just to sweat.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,086 Member
    scarlett_k wrote: »
    Well I guess sweat has "toxins" in it in the form of urea, ammonia, sodium, chloride, and other "chemicals" but so does your body. Sweat contains small amounts of these.
    ninerbuff wrote: »
    kshama2001 wrote: »
    To continue the toxin/sweat convo from http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10588569/waist-training/p1

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/well/live/can-you-sweat-out-toxins.html
    Think about it. A "toxin" is a poison. Like snake venom for example. So can one literally sweat "poison" out of there sweat glands if they have a normal respiratory and excretory system? Lol, you lick yourself and actually get "poisoned"?

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    The dose makes the poison. Sweat contains ammonia and urea for starters - both of which would poison you if ingested in a great enough quantity.
    Not disagreeing with that, however the same could be said if you ingested too much in vitamins, iron, and other minerals. You'd "poison" yourself.
    The point here is that there isn't enough of that in the generally healthy body to sweat out "toxins".

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  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,086 Member
    J9LynnHelton wrote: »
    So I guess the question is, is sweating good for you? My husband believes it is very good for the body. I hate to sweat, I sweat when I work out, but I certainly don't purposely try to sweat just to sweat.
    Sweat is for one main reason...........................to cool the body.

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