How does sweating during exercise compare?
Exercise is needed for your health for many reasons, of course. When you sweat with exercise, you may achieve some of the benefits of detox. But exercise activates the “sympathetic nervous system”, a part of the autonomic nervous system. Activation of the sympathetic nervous system is your body’s natural response to a “fight or flight” situation. To prioritize the body’s energy resources for the muscles of movement, digestion and elimination processes are slowed down. However, when you are relaxed, the “parasympathetic nervous system” is activated instead. This mode means “rest and digest”. The organs of elimination are prioritized. When you are in a sauna, in contrast to exercise, the parasympathetic nervous system is activated. Researchers believe that sweating in a sauna is more useful for detoxification than sweating from exercise because the body is ready and able to support all of its detox processes.
