Can You Sweat Out Toxins?

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  • boredloser
    boredloser Posts: 119 Member
    edited August 2017
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    Pee them out :smiley: Thanks liver!
  • earlnabby
    earlnabby Posts: 8,171 Member
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    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
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    My niece swore she was sweating toxins from the soles of her feet during hot yoga. :o
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 17,959 Member
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    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
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    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:

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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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: 48,526 Member
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    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: 48,526 Member
    edited August 2017
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    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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