Summer’s here, and damn is it hot!
I’m dripping like a waterfall (I sweat more than most).
Any suggestions for limiiting the sweating? I’ve heard local drink room temperature water as opposed to ice water to counter ‘the drips’…
I try my best to stay indoors, near the AC.
What do you do?
I did read somewhere that cold drinks make you sweat more, so trying room temperature (or only slightly chilled) drinks might be worth a try but I don’t think it will stop the sweating entirely.
Personally I try to avoid hot areas, i.e. outdoor or places without an air-condition.
As well I avoid most things that are hot (soups, Shabu-Shabu etc.) at this time of the year.
I find that walking around nude helps (especially outdoors).
This year I’m going shaved, shaved and nude would work better. If your a hairy guy then it seems crazy when you think about it to wear a hairy coat in the heat and humidity of Asia.
Not quite shaved btw, more clippered.
There is this surgery that you can have to sever the nerves in your chest/armpit area that transmit sweating commands to your brain. Apparently it’s already widespread in China, as, apparently, Asians are heavier sweaters. Maybe NHI covers it?
I say, sweat away! Sweating is good for you–cleans out the toxins.
I used to shower off in the gym near my place of work if I got too sweaty during the day. Would keep an extra shirt or two handy for this purpose.
I’ve been here just shy of two weeks now, and have lost at least 3 pounds from sweating alone… a couple more showers a day, but I’m liking it! 
Watch out for dehydration. There is a pill (medicine or chemical) that cuts down on sweating. I don’t know the name but a competant skin doctor should be aware of it.
Stop huddling around the air conditioning. Not only can it make you sick, you’re stopping your body from adjusting to the heat. Give yourself a couple of weeks with no A/C. Just use a fan at night. Your body will adjust and you will sweat a whole lot less when you’re outside.
As well, going to the gym helps. You sweat a lot while you’re there, but for the rest of the day you stay a lot drier.
[quote=“Cyberguerrilla”]Stop huddling around the air conditioning. Not only can it make you sick, you’re stopping your body from adjusting to the heat. Give yourself a couple of weeks with no A/C. Just use a fan at night. Your body will adjust and you will sweat a whole lot less when you’re outside.
As well, going to the gym helps. You sweat a lot while you’re there, but for the rest of the day you stay a lot drier.
[/quote]I understand what you’re saying. But I don’t use AC at home and I also do aerobic exercise, but I still seem to sweat a fair bit. Perhaps I’d sweat even more if I didn’t do these things.
I am pro sweat.
Sweating is a good and neccesary part of the human pyshiological matrix. A body must sweat to maintain its health and toxin removal.
So is proper hygiene and diet.
[quote=“TainanCowboy”]I am pro sweat.
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I am pocari.
[quote=“Cyberguerrilla”]Stop huddling around the air conditioning. Not only can it make you sick, you’re stopping your body from adjusting to the heat. Give yourself a couple of weeks with no A/C. Just use a fan at night. Your body will adjust and you will sweat a whole lot less when you’re outside.
As well, going to the gym helps. You sweat a lot while you’re there, but for the rest of the day you stay a lot drier.
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A bucket of ice cubes not far from the fan on a chair makes a good substiute for air conditioning. Doesn’t salt help stop sweat too?
Thinking about it, the logic to salt-intake may be similar to going to the gym. You end up drinking more liquids.
For your pits, antiperspirant deodorant helps, of course.
There is a medication to decrease the amount of sweating, but I don’t know its name or if its available in Taiwan. Ask a skin specialist.