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your body's panic AC, dripping proof that staying cool is hard work
means The salty liquid your skin releases to cool you down when you're hot, working hard, or nervous.
from From Old English 'swat,' meaning sweat or perspiration, with deep Germanic roots — a cousin of Dutch 'zweet' and German 'Schweiß.' Trace it back further and it likely springs from the same ancient Proto-Indo-European source as Latin 'sudor' (sweat — the root behind 'sudorific') and Sanskrit 'sveda.' Humans have been dripping, and naming the drip, for a very long time.
- odorless
- sweat smells like nothing until bacteria feast on it
- two types
- eccrine cools you, apocrine fuels your stress stink
- sheer volume
- up to three liters per hour when working hard
- emotional kind
- stress sweat erupts mainly from palms and armpits
- million strong
- around two to four million glands cover you
sweat lodge — native american (primarily great plains tribes) ceremonial structure using heated rocks and water for spiritual purification
sweating sickness — epidemic disease that killed thousands in england 1485-1551, causing sudden fever and profuse perspiration
sweat equity — labor contributed to a project instead of capital, commonly used in real estate and startup ventures since the 1960s