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Some people don't sweat in saunas because of heat intolerance, poor circulation, or autonomic nervous system dysregulation like POTS. If you sweat during exercise or fever but not in heat, it's an ANS imbalance, not a permanent inability.
Some people don't sweat in saunas because of heat intolerance, poor circulation, or autonomic nervous system dysregulation like POTS. If you sweat during exercise or fever but not in heat, it's an ANS imbalance, not a permanent inability.
Why don't I sweat when I'm in the sauna? Number of possibilities for this with people. Sometimes it's people who are heat intolerant and your body has not shifted over to where your autonomic nervous system starts to, you know, move the sweat through the larger sweat glands, et cetera. Sometimes it can be due to vascular flow and the fact that your peripheral vascular flow is minimized for a number of physiological reasons. Normally people, as long as they tolerate the heat, can get up to a particular level where they will start to sweat. One of the troubles with people who don't sweat in the beginning, if the body is heated up, one of the ways the body gets rid of junk is out through the sweat glands. Now, obviously it'll move it through the liver and the gut and then also, you know, out through the kidneys. So you've got other ways out. But if you're not sweating at all, sometimes you can have some post-treatment sort of not feeling well because your other way out through sweating is just not happening for you. In most people that I've run into that don't sweat When they're in the sauna, we can usually find some instance where they do sweat, whether that's during fever or exercise or some other thing. And so if that's the case where they do have a time that they remember when they do sweat or they did sweat, then it can be autonomic nervous system. That's the automatic nervous system that has a sympathetic and parasympathetic side, and that can get a little bit confused. So you see that sometimes in people who have things like POTS and a number of other disorders that go on.
