Exercise makes you sweat. Heat makes you sweat. So does sweating even just from heat have any health benefits?
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All sweating is “from heat”. When you exercise you sweat because your body is producing a lot more heat and sweating helps remove the heat. When you’re sick with a fever, your body is producing heat in order to drive out the infection and sweating helps to keep your temperature from becoming excessive. When you sit in a hot room you sweat because your body is trying to cool itself.
I assume that your question is more geared towards “if I sit in a hot room and raise my temperature, will the resulting sweating make me more healthy?”. The answer to that is quite simple: no. The sweating doesn’t make you any more healthy. However, the elevated body temperature might. Increasing your body temperature for a little while, in safe way, can help to improve circulation of your blood and it can help to relax your muscles and improve breathing. These are all good things. You just need to be careful not to over do it. Drink lots of fluids and electrolytes (salts, sugars) when exercising or if you will be sitting in a sauna for a long time because sweating can drain you of both water and electrolytes very quickly and then you will over heat very quick and possibly die from “heat exhaustion”.
Lastly, the idea that toxins can be removed from your body via sweat to improve your health is not scientific, it’s mostly pseudo-science from people that want to sell you something.
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