Sweat Can Remove Toxins from Your Body

Hot yoga promotes the notion that one may eliminate toxins from the body by simply sweating them out. Health freaks and Multi Level Marketing schemes (or MLMs) that sell essential oils around the developed world have also fully embraced the notion. But these grandiose statements are not supported by a shred of science.

Sweat is 99% water and does not contain any poisons or hazardous substances, but it helps control the body's temperature. Sweat does not detoxify the body. Although the term "detox" has been appropriated by propagandists of pseudoscience, it actually originated (and is still used) as a medical procedure employing medications and other therapies that vary greatly based on the sort of toxins present in the body.