Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast, where Dr.

Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

Let's talk about why you should actually sweat more often.

Did you realize that we spend over $75 billion a year just to block sweat?

For some reason people don't like to sweat, they don't like to smell, and above all don't let anyone know that you actually sweat.

Now sweat itself doesn't have a bad odor.

It's the bacteria that ferment certain things in the sweat that produce various types of odor.

And a lot of times when you're using certain deodorants that plug up your pores, that sweat material gets blocked and it ferments more and it can create a worse odor.

But there are two types of sweat glands.

You have certain glands that produce an oil that is connected with a hair follicle like underneath your armpit.

Then you have other sweat glands that produce more of a salty fluid.

But the overall purpose of sweat is your body's strategy to control temperature, to dump heat so you can keep moving and you prevent heat stroke.

It's a survival strategy and we can lose a lot of sweat.

In fact, we can lose between two and four liters of sweat every single hour.

That's an incredible amount of fluid coming out of our body.

And when people are in fear or under major stress when they're sweating, it has a completely different odor.

Now, if we look at the consistency of sweat, what's in it?

You have 0.9 grams. It's like almost 1 gram per liter of sodium.

So there's a lot of sodium.

And if we look at potassium, it's only 0.2 grams per liters.

And if we look at calcium, it's even less 0.015 grams per liter.

And then magnesium is 0.013 grams per liter.

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