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8%

of a day's urine lead turns up in half a liter of sweat

Your kidneys and gut do the detox, and sweat carries traces.

Half a liter of sweat carries about 8% of the lead that a day's urine removes.Source 1 · Clinical trialLead in sweat and its relationship to salivary and urinary levels in normal healthy subjects1Omokhodion F, Crockford G. The Science of The Total Environment, 1991.Read the paperPubMed ↗Source 2 · BookDietary Reference Intakes for Water, Potassium, Sodium, Chloride, and SulfateInstitute of Medicine. National Academies Press, 2005.Read the paper A 2019 review of sweat physiology calls sweat a minor way to clear toxic substances compared with the kidneys and gut.Source 3 · ReviewPhysiology of sweat gland function: The roles of sweating and sweat composition in human healthBaker LB. Temperature, 2019.Read the paperPubMed ↗

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Use the sauna for the heat, and drink water to replace what you sweat. If a clinic sells sweating as a way to clear metals, ask what it measured.

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  1. 01Omokhodion F, Crockford G. Lead in sweat and its relationship to salivary and urinary levels in normal healthy subjects1. The Science of The Total Environment. 1991;103(2–3):113-122. doi:10.1016/0048-9697(91)90137-4 PMID 1882227
  2. 02Institute of Medicine. Dietary Reference Intakes for Water, Potassium, Sodium, Chloride, and Sulfate. National Academies Press. 2005. doi:10.17226/10925
  3. 03Baker LB. Physiology of sweat gland function: The roles of sweating and sweat composition in human health. Temperature. 2019;6(3):211-259. doi:10.1080/23328940.2019.1632145 PMID 31608304