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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you Should Know

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Speaker 1: from House Stuff Works dot com? Hey, you welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. With me is always is

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Speaker 1: Charles W. Chuck Bryant flying by the seat of our pants, right, Chuckers.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of flying, you're like, let's go, let's go. I

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Speaker 1: gotta go to New York. Yeah, it's your birthday tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: It is happy birthday. This will be after the fact,

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Speaker 1: of course. I can't believe you're bringing this up. So

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Speaker 1: you got a little birthday trip plan. That's very nice.

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Speaker 1: You mistake me to New York. Nothing like a weekend

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Speaker 1: in New York that they're celebrating anything. I'm very excited

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Speaker 1: about it. Cool, I'm giddy. What you should be. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and we were just in New York. But it wasn't

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Speaker 1: quite the same. You didn't come with did she? No? No, no, Um,

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Speaker 1: we're staying at a friend's place. Fortunately. Um, we have

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Speaker 1: some friends in Brooklyn. Well, should you say his name? Adams? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I will Adam and Serena's now, Oh, it's a lot

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Speaker 1: of info. Might as well give out their address, so

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Speaker 1: security number, that kind of thing, um chuck, which probably

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Speaker 1: gets started right. Yeah, let's do it. You enjoy a

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Speaker 1: good sweat that has been determined. You know, you know

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Speaker 1: about sweating. Actually I hate a good I hate a

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Speaker 1: good sweat. Do you plagues me? I wouldn't call it plague.

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Speaker 1: I think you have it under control. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: if I'm in the steam room, I love a good

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Speaker 1: sweat or the sauna. Yes, that's when you're supposed to sweat.

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Speaker 1: I like it too. I don't like it. I don't

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Speaker 1: like it either. I'm totally with you. Like this summer

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Speaker 1: has been particularly hot here in Atlanta, I don't know

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Speaker 1: if you noticed, And like I'm at this point. There's

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Speaker 1: this boiling point I guess that I've been hovering around

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Speaker 1: for like the last four weeks, where like if I

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Speaker 1: think about it, I can make sweat just like burst

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Speaker 1: out from under my my um my pecks. It's so awful,

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Speaker 1: like all over my stomach. There's like a sweat trail,

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Speaker 1: a horizontal one that I constantly have getting like skin

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Speaker 1: tags probably and then if you get the nerves, you

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Speaker 1: get both kinds of sweat, which we'll talk about. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because there's two different kinds of sweat glands. You want

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Speaker 1: to just talk about sweating first and then go into this.

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Speaker 1: Let's let's do that, Chuck. There's you know, the average

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Speaker 1: person has like four million sweat glands all over their body.

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Speaker 1: You have like eight by that, right, and they're they're

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Speaker 1: divided into two types, acrine and porcine, clothes, acorne and

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Speaker 1: apocrine yea ecrinee krone and apricrine. You say, you know, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't say that. So the the the are both

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Speaker 1: sweat glands. And you would think that you'd have, you know,

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Speaker 1: like they'd all provide one function. They don't. You would

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Speaker 1: be wrong, that's right. So ekrone sweat glands I think

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Speaker 1: are more predominant. I think there's more of them. They

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Speaker 1: cool you down, Yes, that's there. That's what they're charged

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Speaker 1: with this. They don't cool me down or else. Actually,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe it'd be like really really hot.

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Speaker 1: You would be dead. Your thermostat is set high and

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Speaker 1: it's your hypothalamus, by the way, that controls your body temperature, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean gets messages say from like your skin that

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Speaker 1: I better activate the ekron, sweat glands, and humidity. I

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Speaker 1: reckon too, because that's what kills me. Well, humidity kills

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Speaker 1: you because it keeps you from sweating, not me, man, No,

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Speaker 1: it does. It kills you. It keeps you from cooling off.

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Speaker 1: I should say, yeah, so so it's like gets backed up. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'll sweat. The worst is when you get out of

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Speaker 1: I think that's a Seinfeld reference to actually is it? Yeah, George,

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Speaker 1: you got a shower that didn't take. Yeah, Okay, that

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Speaker 1: it takes a little while for your hypothalamus to be like, okay,

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Speaker 1: And it's a different type of sweat that you're sweating then, Um,

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Speaker 1: movie into a sweat podcast. The other kind, chuck is aprocrine, yes,

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Speaker 1: and that is usually in the well. Is it usually

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Speaker 1: And the axcel is under the armpit. Yes, that is

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Speaker 1: your armpit, Yeah, your xcel A. It's not under the armpit.

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Speaker 1: But that's a long time ago. Yeah, it was. Well,

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Speaker 1: we talked about sweat then too. An apacrine sweat glands

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Speaker 1: produced the kind of sweat that makes you stink, right, right,

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Speaker 1: So if it's just salt and water coming out of

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Speaker 1: are not gonna stink. No, they don't. You know that

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Speaker 1: there's a I mean there's over I think hyper hydrosis period.

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Speaker 1: as far as we've ever progressed with um, the treatment

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Speaker 1: your palms are very hairy. I imagine if they weren't,

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Speaker 1: they would, uh, they would, they would be far more,

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Speaker 1: So when you say fats and wastes right well, coming

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Speaker 1: I've never heard of this, and I would I thought

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Speaker 1: strictly embarrassing. It's it's debilitating, I imagine it. I mean,

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Speaker 1: can turn into lactating cells. That's why they're around the nipple, right, Yes,

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Speaker 1: And aprocrine. If you have this form of chrome chrome hydrosis,

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Speaker 1: you will sweat yellow, green, blue, black, or brown. Yes.

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Speaker 1: And why specifically because the culprit here is something called

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Speaker 1: LiPo fu skin. I don't know if it's lip a

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Speaker 1: have a pretty strong idea that it's apicrine chromeohydrosis. I

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Speaker 1: in there. Have you seen the Gatorade commercial for people

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Speaker 1: sweat colors. I'm sure that's not what they were. They

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Speaker 1: weren't like they should have had a tag at the end,

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Speaker 1: like not chrome. Yeah exactly. Did not have been like

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Speaker 1: the five people in the world to have this, so

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Speaker 1: um chuck. We were saying, like, if you come in

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Speaker 1: and your docter sees that you have like blue sweat

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Speaker 1: coming out of your nipples, they're gonna think it's apocrine chromhydrosis.

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Speaker 1: LiPo fuskins phosphores what's called the wood the woods lamp.

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Speaker 1: Spencer guests, right, exactly do you have any woods lamps? Yeah? Exactly. Um.

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Speaker 1: So that's apricrine chrome hydrosies. Akron chrome hydrosis is also

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Speaker 1: equally well explained. It's always a foreign object like a

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