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Mechanism Behind SweatingExactly how does our body control the sweating process? A good question, especially if your condition is out of control, and you sweat excessively. The answer lies in our nervous system.
Activities that are voluntary are those that we control, for example, any movement that we consciously decide to do from one moment to another (walking, writing, reading, etc.). Involuntary processes are less familiar to us but equally important. These involve the processes that we are often unaware of and take for granted. For example, the digesting of food, the beating of our heart, or the dilating of our pupils in response to darkness. In much the same way, sweating is an involuntary process. No one is able to control the amount of sweating that occurs at any given time.
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Our nervous system is responsible for all these functions. The brain is the control center for all activities. It controls all activities by sending signals to the spinal cord which in turn directs these signals to the appropriate parts of the body, whether it is a muscle that needs to contract or a hormone that must be released from a particular gland (e.g. insulin release following a meal).
Chemical substances or neurotransmitters are released between nerve fibers as a means of propagating an impulse from one fiber to the next until it reaches the target organ or tissue. These neurotransmitters are also the substances that are released towards target cells. These target cells will in turn be stimulated to act according to the function they are meant to perform (e.g. muscle cells will contract or sweat gland cells will secrete)
What about the excessive sweating condition? For more about the nervous system and its role in hyperhidrosis click on the short video below.
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