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The Joy of Sweat: The Strange Science of Perspiration

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By (author): Sarah Everts

Sweating may be one of our weirdest biological functions, but its also one of our most vital and least understood. In The Joy of Sweat, Sarah Everts delves into its role in the bodyand in human history.

Why is sweat salty? Why do we sweat when stressed? Why do some people produce colourful sweat? And should you worry about Big Brother tracking the hundreds of molecules that leak out in your sweatnot just the stinky ones or alleged pheromonesbut the ones that reveal secrets about your health and vices?

Evertss entertaining investigation takes readers around the worldfrom Moscow, where she participates in a dating event in which people sniff sweat in search of love, to New Jersey, where companies hire trained armpit sniffers to assess the efficacy of their anti-sweat products. In Finland, Everts explores the delights of the legendary smoke sauna and the purported health benefits of good sweat, while in the Netherlands she slips into the sauna theatre scene, replete with costumes, special effects and towel dancing.

Along the way, Everts traces humanitys long quest to control sweat, culminating in the multibillion-dollar industry for deodorants and antiperspirants. And she shows that while sweating can be annoying, our sophisticated temperature control strategy is one of humanitys most powerful biological traits.

Deeply researched and written with great zest, The Joy of Sweat is a fresh take on a gross but engrossing fact of human life.

The New York Times Most Anticipated Book of the Summer

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Product Details
  • Weight: 500g
  • Dimensions: 160 x 236mm
  • Publication Date: 13 Aug 2021
  • Publisher: WW Norton & Co
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780393635676

About Sarah Everts

Sarah Everts holds a masters degree in chemistry and has written for Scientific American Smithsonian New Scientist and the Economist. She teaches journalism at Carleton University and lives in Ottawa Canada.

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