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4 Reasons to Break a Sweat
The Fast Path to Flushing Toxins by Deanna Minich D
octors, health experts and fitness gurus tell us that we should break a sweat every day—and for good
reason. Sweat not only activates a host of benefits tied to health-boosting exercise, perspiring itself is curative. Whether sitting in a sauna, walking on a warm day or working out, sweating is a necessary bodily function with powerful healing effects. By clearing out a range of toxins,
sweat plays an essential role in the body’s natural detoxifying function. Here are some of the toxins it helps eliminate:
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Persistent organic pollut- ants (solvents, fumigants and insecticides): A clinical study of 20 participants published
in BioMed Research International found that their sweat samples contained a range of toxins, including pesticides DDT/DDE, endosulfan, methoxy- chlor and endrin. Nearly all parent compounds of these pesticides were evident, demonstrating that sweating is an effective way of excreting and diminishing the body’s toxic burden. One sweat sample contained some
pesticides not present in the subject’s blood or urine samples, suggesting that some pesticides are only mobilized and eliminated through sweating.
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Phthalate (plasticizer): Phthal- ate, found in plastic products, is also removed through sweat.
Research published in the Scientific World Journal evaluated blood, sweat and urine samples from 20 individuals and discovered that all of them con- tained the common mono-2-ethylhexyl phthalate (MEHP). The concentrations of this toxin in sweat were more than twice
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