What's In Your Sweat? | Why Monitoring Your Sweat Can Improve Your Health
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
What's in your sweat, and what can it indicate about your overall health? What if we could use biosensors to track it and improve your overall quality of life? While sweat may not be at the forefront of mainstream science, this type of technology may be more powerful than some may realize…
Today we sit down to discuss all things sweat-related with Dr. Shalini Prasad. Dr. Prasad is a Professor in the Department of Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering graduate program at The University of Texas at Dallas, where she has been since 2011.
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In this episode, we talk about:
- How functional sweat wearables can be used for human physiology and disease tracking.
- Why monitoring your sweat can help you stay healthy.
- What makes sweat smell.
- Where in your body sweat comes from.
With training in electrical engineering, Dr. Prasad has a background in figuring out signals from a vast array of sources – and she applies this knowledge of technology to effectively monitor human sweat. Wondering what her research has uncovered? Click play to find out now!To learn more about Dr. Prasad and her work, visit her lab at https://www.utdbmnl.com now!
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| 1:12.4 | Richard Jacobs has made it his life's mission to find them for you. He hunts down and interviews geniuses in every field, sleep science, cancer, stem cells, ketogenic diets, and more. |
| 1:18.1 | Here come the geniuses. This is the Finding Genius podcast with Richard Jacobs. |
| 1:27.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius podcast, now part of the Finding Genius Foundation. |
| 1:32.3 | I have Shalini Prasad, PhD. |
| 1:35.3 | He's a professor and department head of bioengineering. |
| 1:37.9 | This is at University of Texas at Dallas. |
| 1:40.5 | So we're going to talk about sweat. |
| 1:42.2 | What's in your sweat? |
| 1:43.2 | Are there wearables that can analyze your |
| 1:45.3 | sweat and see what's going on with you physically, et cetera. So Chilini, thanks so much for coming. How are you doing? I'm good, Rich, and thank you for that nice introduction. Looking forward to chatting with you on sweat and that's not sweated together. And I don't wear a, you know, we can make so many bad jokes like I don't wear a sweater. |
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