Dana B | Dana Learns
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00:00Do you know how sweat works?
00:02Yeah. Is that part of our thing here?
00:04That's our thing.
00:05Sweat glands?
00:06We're talking about the process of sweating.
00:08I could use this because I need help.
00:10Because you sweat a lot?
00:11Let's say it was 40 degrees today and I walked two blocks, I'd be sweating.
00:14Has that always been true?
00:16Probably when I got like fat, I started to be sweaty.
00:19Want to know why you being overweight is making you sweat more?
00:22My sweat glands are fat.
00:24No, that's not why, you idiot!
00:29No.
00:30I don't know.
00:31It's because you're fat.
00:32Oh, alright.
00:33And fat is insulation that makes your body hotter.
00:39Sweat is the body's natural method at thermoregulation.
00:44The way that sweat happens is that your body gets hot, right?
00:47Yes.
00:48And it wants to cool itself down so it secretes water out of the sweat glands
00:55and then through evaporation, the water that comes off the skin cools the body.
01:03I don't feel cool when I'm sweating.
01:05But you would if you weren't wrapped in layers of fat.
01:08Layers of fat.
01:10It makes you cooler than you would be.
01:11Okay.
01:12If you didn't sweat at all, all that heat would just remain trapped inside your body.
01:17Even when I've been, I would say, in shape.
01:19You haven't.
01:20I was 6'4", 230 is a strong safety in the NFL.
01:25I was sweating balls.
01:26Now, with all the insulation from the fat that you've added, right?
01:32Your body is going to sweat and it's going to sweat more because you also have a broader surface area to cool.
01:39You have more mass.
01:40You have more skin.
01:41Yeah, I guess.
01:42And that's what's going on there.
01:43That's why you're sweating more because of being overweight.
01:46That seems a little like piling on, you know?
01:48I'm just telling you science.
01:49Not you.
01:50I'm already fat.
01:51I don't need to be uncomfortable and fat.
01:53Yeah, but haven't you been piling on your body?
01:56I suppose, yeah.
01:57By, you know, continuing to eat calzones.
02:00You have bones, right?
02:02And you're saying, I'm going to add more fat layers to the bones, to my skeleton.
02:08I don't like it.
02:09You know who else doesn't like it?
02:12Your body.
02:14Guess what's in sweat.
02:16Beads.
02:19Minerals.
02:22It contains electrolytes, like salt, as well as trace amounts of...
02:28Whenever I hear trace amounts, it makes me think of semen.
02:31What's another thing that comes out of the penis?
02:33Urine.
02:34Yeah, urea.
02:35Trace amounts of urea and lactate.
02:37Urea?
02:38Yeah.
02:39Piss.
02:40And lactate, which is milk, right?
02:42Really?
02:43Yeah.
02:44I'm pulling out milk out of my fucking...
02:45You probably are, more than most.
02:47Yeah.
02:48Does your sweat come out sort of a milky white?
02:51Yeah, I hate to admit it.
02:52There are points where I'm like, that's a little too, like...
02:55Yeah.
02:56That color is not pretty.
02:57If you rubbed it in, it would start to look kind of chalky and pasty.
03:03I didn't know it was milk.
03:04I just thought that was like...
03:05Probably.
03:06I was working hard or something.
03:07If you were stranded on a faraway island and you had to craft a boat to escape with,
03:14you could just work yourself up and grab some of that goo off your body to...
03:19Pretty eye-opening.
03:20I do have milky sweat.
03:21And something tells me also you would be the one guy cast away on an island who would somehow
03:26gain weight.
03:27By the way, your sweat glands are called your eccrine glands, right?
03:32Yeah.
03:33And they are all over your body, but primarily in areas like your forehead, your palms, right?
03:39Yeah.
03:40Your glands in your armpits are actually called your apocrine glands, and those are not technically
03:46used for cooling the body.
03:49They produce a thicker sweat that's actually more important for body odor.
03:54If people are using deodorant on their armpits to stop sweating, why am I not putting deodorant
03:59on my stomach or my knees?
04:01Do you really want to stop your body from sweating?
04:03I would love more than anything in this world to be not sweaty.
04:07I might just start ripping fucking deodorant all over my legs and stuff.
04:10Something tells me that the wave of sweat you get from eating a burrito too quickly
04:17will break through whatever tiny, flimsy dam is created against your skin by an over-the-counter
04:25antiperspirant deodorant.
04:26Are you kidding?
04:28One time in high school, I projectile vomited on my friend's wall, and I cleaned it up with deodorant.
04:35You know, you tell stories that don't add up.
04:41I swear to God.
04:42It's not that I don't believe you, it's just I've never heard the brain come to the conclusions
04:47that yours have.
04:48Ecrine glands secrete sweat to cool the body when it's hot by pushing moisture droplets
04:57of primarily water and electrolytes to the skin where it evaporates, drawing heat away
05:03from the body.
05:04That's how we cool ourselves.
05:05Well, do you have any tips?
05:06I don't know.
05:07Like, bring a towel with me wherever I go?
05:10I think you need to embrace that sweating is healthy, but that in your current state,
05:15you probably shouldn't be sweating from things as simple as walking.
05:18Yeah.
05:19Like a staircase shouldn't make you need to change your shirt.
05:24I hate to admit there's been times where I get sweaty from eating.
05:27You're right.
05:28Are you a guy who takes a bite, and chews, and then puts the next bite in your mouth
05:31before that first bite is swallowed?
05:33Oh, yeah.
05:34I had a feeling.
05:35I don't know what to tell you.
05:36This is how I was born and raised.
05:37I don't believe your parents said, Dana, open your mouth.
05:40Well, they never told me otherwise.
05:41Is that their duty?
05:42I don't know.
05:43If I had a kid, I'd be like, slow down, buddy.
05:46Okay.
05:47We'll blame your parents then.
05:48Now I feel bad.
05:49You know, at some point, you're going to have to face yourself in an oversized mirror and
05:54realize that the way you look is on you, brother.
05:59It's an oversized mirror.
06:00It's an oversized mirror.
06:01And you cannot simply say that objects in the mirror are bigger than they appear.
06:06You can't say oversized mirror.
06:08That's not nice.
06:09Alright, that's sweating.
06:10Good luck.
06:11That's nice and easy.