2 mo. ago • 85%

If you're sweating in a hot shower, you can't tell

39 comments

Oh buddy you absolutely can tell

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- I’ve had showers where I feel like I’m out watering the shower
  
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OP... Have you ever actually taken a shower? Because this is not true at all.

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- This is Lemmy
  
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OP just revealed to us that they have never taken a hot shower in their whole life.

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I'm surprised how many people feel they can differentiate steam moisture and sweat on their skin.

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- The process of sweating is one you can feel, beyond just the sensation of moisture. I'm more surprised that there are people who can't feel the difference.
  
  Also, sweat has a much different consistency than water.
  
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  TIL a lot of people can't feel themselves sweat if they're in the shower.
  
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  I'm a warm, sweaty person. Maybe I sweat too often to notice it's happening. I do great in winter though and don't complain about 90F+ days under 20% humidity. Sadly, I live where summers are 90/90
  
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- Yeah I don't really feel the difference either. Intriguing. Whether I'm wet from the shower or from sweat, it feels about the same to me. It's only after it's drying that there's an obvious difference to me
  
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- That was my take that prompted the post, but now a little logic is kicking in. Is my skin actually cold enough to condensate steam? I do not know
  
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Yes I can.

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As bullshit as "you can't feel yourself sweat in the pool"

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- I cannot feel myself sweat in a pool
  
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  Then you aren't swimming/working out hard enough to sweat.
  
  Also It's not that you feel yourself sweating, it's that you feel the sweat. Sweat is a really slimy substance if it cannot evaporate
  
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I met a researcher that was measuring swimmer sweat. To do it he had to patch part of their body with a waterproof detector. Spoiler alert, they do!

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- This is the science I live for.
  
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spend time in a sauna. you can tell.

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- That's a humid steamy environment, not a small waterfall
  
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If you start sweating in the shower you are doing it wrong. It could easily turn into heat stroke. This is more of a problem with hot tubs and hot springs

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Sweat is basically water so sweating in a shower would be useless. I don't even think it's possible tbh. Once you get above a certain temperature you're just burning yourself.

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- It is absolutely possible to sweat in water.
  
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- Sweat is salty water, so it's different. It's released more when your body is hot, not because it's dry. You probably aren't sweating in an air conditioned room and showers are typically hotter than room temperature, probably hot enough to make you sweat. I'm not sure why you think your sweat would turn off just because you're wet. If that was the case, you wouldn't have pooled sweat pouring off you on humid days
  
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  I was thinking more along the lines of the water from the shower already acting as sweat by absorbing the heat. Which would make sweating useless. I dont feel like I've run into a situation which like this before, but based on people's comments, I may be wrong here.
  
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- Sweat has electrolytes.
  
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  I sweat Brawndo?!?
  
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