Are there health benefits to sweating (from temperature not exercise)?
Sweating is a process for cooling, not for excretion. If sweating were a process to excrete toxins and waste products, then we would sweat according to our need to excrete such substances, rather than according to our need for cooling. In sweating, we lose water, and we lose certain vital minerals. If these are not promptly replaced, then the effect is quite deleterious to our health. There are weight-loss programs that are based on sweating, and on the use of diuretics, which often appear to produce dramatic effects. These effects are illusionary; the lost weight and volume is almost entirely in water, leaving the person dehydrated. When the person drinks enough water to be once again properly hydrated, all of the lost weight returns. The other answer previously posted to this question is from a person who has bought into all manner of bizarre conspiracy theories, disproven quackery, and other junk science. He is convinced that all legitimate scientists and medical professionals are i
