What makes some people smell when they sweat?
“Perspiration, or sweat, is your body’s way of cooling itself, whether that extra heat comes from hardworking muscles or from overstimulated nerves. In this article, we will examine your body’s sweat glands, how sweat is made and what it does. You will learn that there is difference between the sweat on your palms and the sweat in your armpits and why your skin tastes salty after a workout! The Sweat Gland The average person has 2.6 million sweat glands in their skin! Sweat glands are distributed over the entire body — except for the lips, nipples and external genital organs. The sweat gland is in the layer of skin called the dermis along with other “equipment,” such as nerve endings, hair follicles and so on. Figure 1 illustrates what’s going on: Figure 1 Basically, the sweat gland is a long, coiled, hollow tube of cells. The coiled part in the dermis is where sweat is produced, and the long portion is a duct that connects the gland to the opening or pore on the skins’s outer surface
