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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: 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: things are hot, and your hypothalamus is like, oh well,
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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: but it can be like sixty degrees in humid and
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Speaker 1: I'll sweat. The worst is when you get out of
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Speaker 1: a shower and you start sweating immediately, Like you go
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Speaker 1: to the gym and the shower didn't take Yeah, right, man,
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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: that rings a bell. So I'll take an ice cold
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Speaker 1: shower after the gym and it's still yeah, just sweat. Well,
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Speaker 1: it takes a little while for your hypothalamus to be like, okay,
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Speaker 1: it's cool down. Yeah right, so, um, your hypothalamus if
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Speaker 1: it detects that your body temperature is getting too high,
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Speaker 1: it needs to cool down it. Um. It sends a
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Speaker 1: message to your ekrone sweat glands that says, start sweating, boys,
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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: the stuff that comes out of the apricrine glands, right, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's mostly salty saltwater basically, or water and salts but
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Speaker 1: mixed together, you sal and electrolytes. You've seen Idiocracy I have. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you didn't like it, he said, No. I thought it
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Speaker 1: was good to a point, but the one joke premise
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Speaker 1: movie kind of got stale for me. I liked it,
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Speaker 1: but yeah, okay, but we did manage to work a
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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: in the ace, the axila and breast just period or
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Speaker 1: with this condition, that's where it's most heavily concentrated period, yes, okay.
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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: There's nothing under the armpit now, it's just dead space there,
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Speaker 1: that's right. Um, And I remember when we talked about
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Speaker 1: deodor versus any parts print classic s Y s K episode,
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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: your ecrone sweat glands, that's not gonna smell. Sweaty palms
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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: But then some people get it so bad in their hands,
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Speaker 1: you know, they have surgery. Yeah, well that's as that's
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Speaker 1: as far as we've ever progressed with um, the treatment
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Speaker 1: of sweating of any kind of sweat problems, like destroying
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Speaker 1: a sweat gland. We're moving them and rid of them
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Speaker 1: all together, or yeah, going in with like a laser
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Speaker 1: like yeah, I don't get the palms, it's just it's
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Speaker 1: my head and face, which is an awesome place to sweat. Well,
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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: far sweatier. Okay. Um, So with the apricrine sweat glands,
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Speaker 1: you're sweating out water. That's the vehicle that's actually moving
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Speaker 1: the stuff like fats um, the waste by products of metabolism.
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Speaker 1: Just basically it's a way to evacuate stuff from your
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Speaker 1: cells outside of it's a disposal system. Yeah, it sounds gross.
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Speaker 1: So when you say fats and wastes right well, coming
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Speaker 1: through your skin, yes, And those don't stink in and
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Speaker 1: of themselves. It's the bacteria on your skin, the local flora,
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Speaker 1: you know, the local fauna um that eats those fats
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Speaker 1: and then creates the stink as as excrement. So you
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Speaker 1: stink because of bacteria excrement. That's what it is. So
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Speaker 1: you've got both of these, and both of them are
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Speaker 1: capable of condition a very very strange condition called chrome hydrosis.
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Speaker 1: I've never heard of this, and I would I thought
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Speaker 1: I knew everything about sweating. And the reason I didn't
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Speaker 1: know anything about it is because it is really, really
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Speaker 1: really rare, Like this is the alien hand syndrome of
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Speaker 1: bodily fluids, I would say, yeah, of sweating at least,
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of weird bodily fluids going on. Syndromes. Uh,
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Speaker 1: this is when drum roll, although you know the title
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Speaker 1: is when your sweat is colored and I thought I
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Speaker 1: had it bad, but sweating green. That's really what it is.
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Speaker 1: This um, this condition, chromo hydrosis is um painless. It
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Speaker 1: doesn't lead to any other conditions. It's totally benign. It's
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Speaker 1: strictly embarrassing. It's it's debilitating, I imagine it. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you can't wear certain clothes. You certainly can't wear white
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Speaker 1: because all of a sudden, like you have two large
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Speaker 1: circles where your nipples are, because that's one place where especially, uh,
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Speaker 1: the apocrine version takes places very typically under the armpit
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Speaker 1: and at the breast right. And and one of the
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Speaker 1: reasons why you can remember that apocrine sweat glands are
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Speaker 1: around your nipples because they are eventually converted into um
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Speaker 1: cells that deliver milk when you're when you're lactating, well,
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Speaker 1: not you, but you know I told you a friend
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Speaker 1: that lactated a guy. That's right, you did, so apocrine
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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: few skin or lip a few skin. It's like lipid
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Speaker 1: like fat. It's a it's a type of that that's
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Speaker 1: been oxidized and yeah, and there you have it. I
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Speaker 1: mean it's pretty simple, like yeah, mystery salt. So Um,
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Speaker 1: if you come to your physician and say, hey, man,
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Speaker 1: why are my nipples orange producing orange sweat? Or blue
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Speaker 1: or green or yellow? Um, he's going to say I
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Speaker 1: have a pretty strong idea that it's apicrine chromeohydrosis. I
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Speaker 1: would say right away. That would be I saw the
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Speaker 1: orange lady. Did you see her? The I saw a
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Speaker 1: power point someone, Uh, what's she? A nurse? She wouldn't
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Speaker 1: know orange. So this is such a rare condition. I
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Speaker 1: don't know if we said that whoever you're talking about.
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Speaker 1: It was probably the first case ever documented, and that
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Speaker 1: was like two thousand eight, maybe because it was a
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Speaker 1: power point that some I guess physician had done and
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Speaker 1: it showed, you know, her face was blacked out, but
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Speaker 1: it showed pictures of like her stained brazier and T
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Speaker 1: shirts and it was just like, I can't imagine that.
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Speaker 1: I feel awful enough as a sweater, right, I mean
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Speaker 1: you're a sweater plus color? Yeah. Basically just fascinates people.
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Speaker 1: You can't you can't fault somebody in. They're like, why
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Speaker 1: is what's going on. Yeah, yeah, you know, but I'm
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Speaker 1: sure that happens a lot. Like all you do is
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Speaker 1: explain away, like, oh, I have this weird condition where
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Speaker 1: I sweat orange. Well, apparently with um. This nurse that
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Speaker 1: I mentioned, I think she was like twenty six or
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Speaker 1: something like that, she spent five months wondering what the
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Speaker 1: heck was going on before she went and sought treatment.
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Speaker 1: She had no idea. And I can't imagine sweating something
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Speaker 1: right away and waiting like five months before finally going
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Speaker 1: to a doctor for red sweat. Like I'm one of
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Speaker 1: those guys who will like put off going to the
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Speaker 1: doctor forever, you know, but red sweat would get me
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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: You can prove definitively that it is by um holding
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Speaker 1: a black light up to the sweat because the the
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Speaker 1: LiPo fuskins phosphores what's called the wood the woods lamp.
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Speaker 1: I've never heard that that's called a black light because
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Speaker 1: you know you have a basement and I when to
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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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Speaker 1: die or something that person is ingested that somehow gets
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Speaker 1: into the ecrine sweat clands and then is is um
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Speaker 1: produced because the one common thread between these two is
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Speaker 1: that the pigment is produced in the sweat plant. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's important because if you're a min or a copper miner,
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Speaker 1: sometimes you'll get a mineral mix with the sweat once
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Speaker 1: it leaves the skin, and it'll turn it blue blue
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Speaker 1: for copper. Yeah. Um. But which is not to be
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Speaker 1: confused with the blue man who who had he took
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Speaker 1: too much some kind of copper colloidal silver, that's what
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Speaker 1: it was. The senator or something or a congressman was
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Speaker 1: really one of the guys turned silver. He Oh, this
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Speaker 1: guy was blue. He looked like a blue sand clause. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: from too much chloidal silver. So yes, if you have
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Speaker 1: a pseudo chromydros, it's it means that you're sweating a
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Speaker 1: normal color or colorless sweat, but it's reacting with something
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Speaker 1: on your skin to produce and they say, get out
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Speaker 1: of the copper mine and we'll stop eventually, stop rubbing,
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Speaker 1: you know, pigment on yourself. Um. But with ekron chrome hydrosis, UM,
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Speaker 1: you're you're producing pigmented sweat and then sweating pigmented sweat.
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Speaker 1: But it's it's not from lip a few skins, it's
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Speaker 1: from something else. And that nurse that I was talking
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Speaker 1: about that weighted five years uh, and I think this
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Speaker 1: is in the mid nineties, in the late nineties. Um,
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Speaker 1: she's sweat red and her um physicians took some samples
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Speaker 1: of you know, her regular sweat and you know, compared
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Speaker 1: it to the substance they found on her clothes and said, yeah,
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Speaker 1: you've you've got chromidrosis. And we think it's akron And
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Speaker 1: well it would have to be because it wasn't yellow, green, blue, black,
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Speaker 1: or brown. Right. Yeah, But we know so little about
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Speaker 1: this that if somebody's start if somebody presented with a
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Speaker 1: case of red apicrine um chromidrosis, they'd be like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: well there's this is new, right, you know, because they
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Speaker 1: don't understand the mechanism behind either of them. They understand
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Speaker 1: what's going on, or they understand how it's happening. They
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Speaker 1: don't understand what's going on. They have no idea. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and I think this, like alien hand, is one of
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Speaker 1: those where they might be able to find out, but
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Speaker 1: it's so rare. There's it's not like a lot of
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Speaker 1: funding goes into this for research, so they just treat it,
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Speaker 1: you know. Speaking of alien hand um, I found out
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Speaker 1: about this thing. I wrote a blog on it recently
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Speaker 1: about mirror dystonia, and it was like mirror neurons and
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Speaker 1: alien hand mixed together. Right, So, like if you have this,
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Speaker 1: your brain isn't producing proteins. This one specific protein that
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Speaker 1: basically acts as like the switch like when you go
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Speaker 1: to pick pick this up with my right hand, right,
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Speaker 1: so both of your both sides of your brain get
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Speaker 1: the signal. But there's this protein that switches as like okay, right,
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Speaker 1: right hand. So this protein isn't strong enough and people
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Speaker 1: with mirror estonia so they go like this, really pick
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Speaker 1: up something with both hands, both hands, yes, or both,
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Speaker 1: Like if they go to take a step with their
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Speaker 1: right foot, they do with their left foot to the
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Speaker 1: walking is very difficult to jump. Yeah, wow, isn't that crazy?
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Speaker 1: What to do a full podcast on that? Maybe there
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Speaker 1: is not enough on it? All right, Well that was
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Speaker 1: it then, So um akron chrome hydrosis that nurse I
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Speaker 1: was talking about. She was eating some sort of and
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Speaker 1: I could never find out. I wonder why I couldn't
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Speaker 1: thought it was like like a boy. I can't say.
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Speaker 1: It was like a keebler devil's food cake. It had
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Speaker 1: it was tomato based and had pepperik and it was
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Speaker 1: a prepared food that she ate as a snack constantly.
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Speaker 1: So the red tomato paste and the paprika, we're coloring
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Speaker 1: her sweat. And that's where science is baffled. They have
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Speaker 1: no idea how something you can get into your sweat glands.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't make any sense. They also don't know why
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Speaker 1: some people overproduced lip of few skins or their fats
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Speaker 1: become overly oxidized until they become lip of few skins. Well,
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Speaker 1: ekron is the one that you want because the treatment
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Speaker 1: for that is to identify the culprit of the foreign
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Speaker 1: food or not foreign, but that's whatever the food that's
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Speaker 1: discoloring your sweat and discontinuing that food like stuff. The
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Speaker 1: lady could have been like, you know, hey, um, to
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Speaker 1: heck with it. I'm gonna keep eating this. It's like guessing,
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Speaker 1: so chuck if you I guess if you're stuck with
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Speaker 1: epicrine chromydrosis, right, or you love your tomato paste peprika
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Speaker 1: flavored whate prepared food product. Right. Um, that's that's my
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Speaker 1: novelty throwing disc Remember that on the Simpsons? Yeah, Um,
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Speaker 1: they couldn't call it it for his Yeah, and I
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Speaker 1: don't think we can't either, Sure we can. Um, if
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Speaker 1: if you like it so much that you want to
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Speaker 1: seek treatment, what what what are some of your treatment options? Well,
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Speaker 1: there's this substance called cap cap sasan, which is the
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Speaker 1: key ingredient to pepper spray. And it's a and bare
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Speaker 1: spray and it is from red pepper. It's a distrived
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Speaker 1: from red pepper itself, isn't it? Yeah, like red pepper
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Speaker 1: flakes pretty much. And it will burn you, I guess
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Speaker 1: if you spray it in your face. But apparently as
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Speaker 1: a cream it can help treat, uh, the Aprican version. Right,
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Speaker 1: And we should have said earlier at crane sweat glands
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Speaker 1: are triggered by changes in body temperature since by the
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Speaker 1: hypothalamus um apocrine sweat glands are triggered by emotion. Well
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Speaker 1: that's why I talked about the nerves, right. Yeah. So, um,
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Speaker 1: there's this neurotransmitter called substance P that apparently is involved
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Speaker 1: with UM the activation of your apicrine sweat clans. Right,
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Speaker 1: So with h with cap sasan for some reason, it
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Speaker 1: blocks the reuptake of substance P, which makes you sweat less. Yes,
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Speaker 1: see mind working concert and I think most people that
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Speaker 1: sweat more than usual working concert because like you get
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Speaker 1: hot and you're like, oh crap, Like if you're headed
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Speaker 1: to I mean, if if you're not doing anything important,
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Speaker 1: doesn't matter. But if you're going somewhere and you're like,
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Speaker 1: oh man, now I'm sweating, and then the other ones
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Speaker 1: kick in, it even works. Yeah. That used to happen
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Speaker 1: to me in college, Like I couldn't sit towards the
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Speaker 1: front of the class because there's self conscious and I'd
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Speaker 1: still get my scalpels start to tingle a little bit,
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Speaker 1: and I'd be like, is that sweat or their bugs
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Speaker 1: jumping off my head? And it just hit this vicious psycle.
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Speaker 1: Are you sure that was going on? I'm pretty college
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Speaker 1: bugs jumping off your head? Okay, it could have all
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Speaker 1: been some sort of dream. Uh. I Also, it's funny,
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Speaker 1: he said tingling, because I don't know if it's true.
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Speaker 1: But I did see one account that said it's sometimes
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Speaker 1: associated with an aura like a warmth or prickling sensation.
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Speaker 1: What the this condition? Oh? Really? Yeah? Huh, And that
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Speaker 1: it happens more often in African Americans and that the
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Speaker 1: youngest age they found it in was eleven year old,
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Speaker 1: so in apocrine or ecrin both, just the whole condition period.
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Speaker 1: I think I wonder if like these additional things, like
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Speaker 1: you can sense them leaving your skin maybe sweat or
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Speaker 1: this standard sweat. And I don't know if associated means
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Speaker 1: it was like one of the cases, or if everyone
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Speaker 1: across the board said it was kind of hazy. And
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Speaker 1: then we also talked about um Removing sweat glands is
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Speaker 1: one treatment option for hyper hydrosis and chromydrosis. Yeah, and
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Speaker 1: boch alenum, yeah, botox or that be fair mile block
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Speaker 1: is well, um, it's it affects it's a toxin, right,
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Speaker 1: and it affects the narrow transmitters that are involved in
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Speaker 1: sweating as well. Oh. The other the other one too,
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Speaker 1: which is a terrible treatment, is to express the glands
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Speaker 1: because it lasts a couple of days and like basically
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Speaker 1: sweat it out. But then you have to do that
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Speaker 1: for a couple of days. Or you could just go
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Speaker 1: to the sauna a lot. Yeah, I imagine that would help,
19:25
Speaker 1: and where maybe like a sign around your neck that says, yes,
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Speaker 1: I know I'm sweating blue right. Um was stupid. Have
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Speaker 1: you ever had to express your dog's anal glands? No?
19:35
Speaker 1: I haven't. I Um someone roughly told me I don't
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Speaker 1: remember who, years ago, and I was like, I'm not
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Speaker 1: doing that. They're like, well, then you have to take
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Speaker 1: your dog to a groomer. I was like, no, I don't. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Jerry ever Now have you ever smelled it anyone? Yes?
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Speaker 1: It is the most distinct awful smell on the planet.
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Speaker 1: There's nothing worse. And it's exactly like when you smell it,
19:57
Speaker 1: you're like, okay, that's anal gland. Yeah, well that's why
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Speaker 1: they rubbed their their bottoms. They're expressing their own anal glass.
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Speaker 1: My dogs are they self expressed. But you smell it
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Speaker 1: when it happens, and then you see them cleaning themselves
20:10
Speaker 1: and you're just like, all right, remember no licks for
20:12
Speaker 1: like a week on me? Yeah, I don't know. That's sorry,
20:17
Speaker 1: I got sidetracked. So yeah, I guess that's it, right,
20:22
Speaker 1: You got anything else to do? There's so much I
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Speaker 1: don't on this one. There's so much sweating stuff. I
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Speaker 1: personally can tell you quite a bit about sweating, sweat, glands, zits,
20:34
Speaker 1: all that stuff. I spent like a couple of months
20:36
Speaker 1: is writing about this stuff for a while. Um, and
20:38
Speaker 1: this article came out of it. I wonder if I
20:40
Speaker 1: never got zits because I sweat so much. I wonder
20:43
Speaker 1: if that helps keep my pores clean or something. I
20:46
Speaker 1: don't know. It also has to do with oil on
20:48
Speaker 1: the skin, and I think you're like my family, none
20:51
Speaker 1: of us really got it, So I think it's hereditary
20:53
Speaker 1: to a certain degree too, right, Yeah, And I think
20:55
Speaker 1: it also has to do with the degree of how
20:58
Speaker 1: sensitive your skin is. Right away, if you want to
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Speaker 1: learn about that kind of stuff and sweating and uh,
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Speaker 1: read my article on chrome e. Grosses. Type sweat into
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Speaker 1: they'll bring up a ton of stuff. We should do
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Speaker 1: one on acne. Okay, that's that's a big one. Yeah,
21:17
Speaker 1: I'll bet some of our pubescent listeners would appreciate that one.
21:21
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21:23
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21:29
Speaker 1: I'm gonna This is someone who's correcting us, and I'm
21:31
Speaker 1: just not quite sure how right she is, so we're
21:34
Speaker 1: gonna discuss it. Hey, guys, I'm a fairly new fan
21:37
Speaker 1: of your show, but I really enjoy every episode. I'm
21:39
Speaker 1: dying to go back and listen to the older ones,
21:41
Speaker 1: but there are so many that it's taking some time.
21:44
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21:46
Speaker 1: America's version Murderer. It was great at the beginning, though
21:49
Speaker 1: I think you may have confused or lumped together Puritans
21:52
Speaker 1: and Pilgrims. Pilgrims that came to Plymouth rock in were
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Speaker 1: actually separatist because they wanted to completely breakaway in the
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Speaker 1: Church of England, whereas the large group that settled in
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Speaker 1: Massachusetts like ten years later it was Puritans they wanted
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Speaker 1: to purify, reform the Church of England, not break away.
22:10
Speaker 1: The Puritans and Separatists had some different philosophies and beliefs,
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Speaker 1: so I think it's important to make that distinction. I
22:16
Speaker 1: am a history nerd, so I think those details are cool.
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Speaker 1: Please let me know if I misheard or if I
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Speaker 1: don't have my facts straight. Thank you, Rachel. I am
22:24
Speaker 1: a history nerd too, Yes, And I don't know the
22:28
Speaker 1: answer to that one. I looked it up and I
22:30
Speaker 1: got a little confused, to be honest, because it was
22:32
Speaker 1: a little bit like that rectangle or square thing like
22:35
Speaker 1: I think some of the separatists where some of the
22:38
Speaker 1: Puritans were separatists but not necessarily the other way around
22:41
Speaker 1: or something, or pilgrim I don't know. I got confused. Oh,
22:44
Speaker 1: so you're saying some of the Pilgrims were separatists, but
22:46
Speaker 1: not all separatists were Pilgrims. One of those kind of things. So,
22:49
Speaker 1: but I mean I could see it. That explains why
22:53
Speaker 1: there is the word separatists, say in the word Puritans. Yeah,
22:58
Speaker 1: and I'm sure described the same group. I think I
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Speaker 1: would argue though, that, um, it matters so little at
23:03
Speaker 1: this point that we Okay, lump them together. She's saying that.
23:08
Speaker 1: I think she's saying that there were no Puritan pilgrims. Okay, well,
23:13
Speaker 1: we'll find out. We'll either find out someone will set
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Speaker 1: a straight that really knows it, or we will just say, Rachel,
23:19
Speaker 1: thank you for the correction. Yeah. Either way, I'm gonna go. Look, Okay,
23:23
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23:29
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23:30
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