Your body excretes a range of different toxins through sweat.

Breaking into a sweat several times a week can detox your body from a variety of pollutants. We are all exposed to many different environmental chemicals each day. You can minimize your exposure by eating organic food and using natural skin care products and cosmetics, but the sad fact remains that we live on a polluted planet. Your liver is responsible for breaking down all toxins that enter your body. It does this in order to make them more easily excreted. Some toxins get excreted through your bowel motions and others are eliminated in urine. It’s important to remember though that your skin is a major detoxification channel, and you can excrete a great deal of waste through sweat. There are several ways to break into a sweat: sitting in a sauna, going for a walk on a warm day, working in the yard, or exercising. Sweating is a necessary bodily function with powerful healing effects. Recently studies are emerging proving the detoxifying abilities of sweat. By clearing out a range of toxins, such as persistent organic pollutants (POPs), pesticides, plastic compounds and heavy metals, sweat plays an essential role in your body’s natural detox abilities. A study looking at this topic was published in the journal BioMed Research International. 20 participants were studies and results showed their sweat samples contained a range of toxins, including the pesticides DDT, endrin, endosulfan and methoxychlor. So now you know that sweating is an effective way of diminishing your body’s toxic burden of pesticides. Interestingly, in the participants, the pesticides DDT, methoxychlor, and endrin were not detected in the blood or urine samples of the individuals. This suggests some pesticides can only be excreted through sweating. When was the last time you sweated? Reference