Can running detoxify? What is the principle?

The sweat produced by our body in daily life contains wastes from the body, and most of these wastes are eliminated through sweat. Moderate running can make the body sweat, which can also achieve the effect of detoxification, but it is necessary to replenish water in time.

1. The principle of sweating during exercise and sweating detoxification

Sweating is an adaptive phenomenon in life. Sweating during exercise is the result of the constant movement of muscles, which continuously consume energy and fat, and then produce waste products such as heat, carbon dioxide, and acid. The purpose of sweating is to excrete waste products and take away the heat generated by the muscles to maintain body temperature.

Exercise causes deep surface sweating, which means it makes people sweat from the inside out. This kind of sweat is the body's self-regulation. It speeds up the body's fluid circulation and metabolism, discharges toxins such as lactic acid, urea, ammonia, etc. accumulated in the body, and ensures the smooth flow of the nose, skin, lungs, and large intestine system.

Studies have shown that sweat does contain harmful substances such as arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury, and sweat is one of the ways to excrete these harmful substances from the body.

2. Sweating while running is effective for weight loss

Sweating during exercise can speed up the body's fluid circulation and metabolism, expel toxins such as lactic acid, urea, ammonia, etc. that accumulate in the body, ensure the smooth flow of systems such as the nose, skin, lungs, and large intestine, control blood pressure, promote digestion, and so on. There is also scientific evidence that when the human body exercises and reaches a certain intensity, fat will burn and convert into heat and be excreted from the body through sweat. Therefore, sweating during exercise can dissipate heat and promote more fat burning, thereby achieving the effect of weight loss. Losing weight by sweating through exercise has no side effects and is an ideal way to lose weight.

3. Excessive sweating reduces exercise capacity

In addition to some metabolic waste, sweat also contains many substances that are useful to the body, such as minerals, proteins, amino acids, vitamins, etc. As you lose these nutrients in sweat, they are also lost.

Therefore, for a small amount of sweating, timely hydration is enough; but for a large amount of sweating, we may have to see a doctor. Because excessive sweating reduces body fluids, if fluids are not replenished in time, it can lead to a decrease in blood volume, an increase in heart rate, a decrease in sweating rate, a decrease in heat dissipation ability, an increase in body temperature, and an imbalance of the body's electrolytes and acid-base balance, causing dehydration and even heat stroke in severe cases.