#477: The Joy of Sweat

Another Mother Runner

Feisty Media

Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Sarah and Tish Hamilton get to chatting with science writer and occasional runner Sarah Everts, author of the new book The Joy of Sweat: the Strange Science of Perspiration. With wit and wisdom, the guest details:

-how sweat is “an evolutionary superpower”;

-why people sweat at different rates;

-sweat at different ages and stages of life, including pregnancy and menopause;

-differences between exercise-produced sweat v. emotion-triggered perspiration;

-cultural cravings for sweat sessions; and

-the societal stigma of sweating profusely.

In the intro chitchat, Sarah shares details about her teen son’s first real job. The sweat-speak starts at 15:58.

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0:57.3	Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Bowen Shea. I'm joined by Tish Hamilton.
1:02.2	Hello, Tish. Hello, Sarah. How are you today? Good. Good. How goes your summer?
1:07.8	Well, I am speaking to you today from Reston, Virginia, where my sister and my mother
1:14.6	live. And my mother's 93 now. And so she can't really stay alone for a long period of
1:21.8	time. And my sister went out to visit her son and who just had his second baby, their
1:29.2	second baby. Yeah. Nice. So I'm here. I'm working from my sister's house this week.
1:34.8	So I could stay with my mother while she's visiting with her grandchildren. Oh, nice.
1:39.2	And I take it your sister and mother live close to each other. They lived in the same
1:43.7	house. Oh, they live in the same house. Okay. I got confused as to whose her house was.
1:48.0	I know. It's a little confusing. Oh, well, that's really nice that they are able to do
1:52.7	that. That's very nice for your sister. Yes. Yeah. Yes, it is. And so to just keep everything
1:59.0	interesting, my daughter who is 16 this year. And so is my boyfriend who lives in Savannah,
2:05.7	Georgia. So he came up also. So we're all here. All one big happy family. Exactly.
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