Have your ever heard a friend say that they are going to a hot yoga class to "sweat out the toxins"? What does that even mean and is it even physiologically possible? Read on to find out if sweating out the toxins is a myth or a reality.
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Thank you! I love to practice various forms of yoga, but the pseudoscientific nonsense out there makes my head spin.
Any time I hear people start talking about “toxins” in their body, I immediately tune out the rest of what they have to say. If they were as “toxic” as they think they are, they’d be dead.
Excellent comment Pati… I agree… We would be walking corpses…
You are VERY toxic. Look at a meth addict. By the time they’re 40 years old, they appear to be in there mid 70’s. Why? Because of all the toxic substances they put in their body. Every time we get new cells, they are inferior to the cells that they are replacing. That leads to old age. Meth addicts age at a rate 2x that of other humans. Do you think that you don’t age based on how toxic YOUR body is? Well, you do! Toxins in the form of synthetic chemicals in meat and prepackaged foods cause toxin buildup and so does smoking, stress, and drinking “treated” (with fluoride and chlorine) municipal water. You had better sweat if you want to look and feel better. On top of sweating, you also must take care to not put junk in your body. You can be the 30 year old that looks 20 or the 30 year old that looks 50 and obese. It’s ALL about how many toxins you allow into your body. Clean people age very beautifully!
You are walking corpses and soon you’ll be corpses on canes and wheelchairs. Clean people don’t need ambulatory devices when they become senior citizens. That kind of stuff is for toxic people! Toxic people wrinkle faster, break more bones, get more diseases, become senile, violent and obese. Look at teenagers. Take 3 sixteen year olds and you’ll have 3 completely different body types. 1. Will be fat and probably have asthma and flatulence issues. Food addict. This is the one that takes most toxins in by eating synthetic vitamins and preservatives found in meat and junk food. They’re body odor is disgusting 2. The next one will be extremely skinny with some ADHD and OCD issues. They will soon be drug addicts because their ADHD “treatments” are just gateway drugs to alcohol, cocaine, meth, and marijuana. They will be dead very soon. 3. This one will have a firm and healthy body with no acne. They are smart and patient and can easily achieve higher test scores than their fat and agitated classmates. This student is likely to eat more raw fruits and vegetables. They get excercise and probably participate in sports. They avoid caffeine, meats, and all processed foods. Avoiding those things means they never know what it’s like to be addicted! This teenager has very little toxins in their body because they eat healthily and sweat often.
I’m really glad you took the time to allay this myth
. But I am a little disappointed you supported another myth, that the toxicity of cosmetic ingredient is related to the number of letters in that ingredient! That is simply superstition.
Yep I was also very skeptical about the ’sweating of toxins’, since the whole point of kidneys and urine is for toxins. Also, the only part of sweat that evaporates is water, so you’d have be wiping it constantly if you didnt want the toxins to be absorbed back through your skin.
However, I really do feel that Bikram does help get rid of bad stuff in your body, since it makes your blood pump like crazy! Pushing more blood through your kidneys will definitely help get rid of more toxins.
Maybe when they say “sweat out your toxins”, they are just referring to the fact that the harder you work, the better your internal systems (immune, circulatory, etc.) will be benefited.
This doesn’t supply any data to support its claims.