Everyone sweats due to the fact that it is a vital body process to help regulate your body's core temperature.
However sweating becomes a problem when you sweat excessively as you may be suffering from a little known condition called hyperhidrosis.
Hyperhidrosis can either affect the whole body (known as general hyperhidrosis) or a part of the body (known as localized hyperhidrosis).
While this may be an embarrassing and uncomfortable problem there are many solutions to it however in this article I will set out some of the causes to see if you can combat them to help reduce your sweating.
The most common cause of excessive sweating is heat.
This is shown when you are in a sauna and you develop a large sweat.
Sweating is a totally normal reaction to heat as it is your body's way to help cool you down.
This works by the body using heat to evaporate away the sweat from your body.
This will use up heat energy within your body therefore cooling you down.
It is difficult to stop heat from making you sweat however you can stay inside or in the shade during the hottest part of the day which is from 12pm-4pm Another common cause of sweat is your diet.
What you eat can have a massive impact on your sweat levels.
Spicy foods raise your body's core temperature so therefore you need to sweat to cool yourself down.
Whereas fruit and vegetables contain vitamins and anti-oxidants which can help to kill bacteria on your skin which give sweat its pungent smell.
The least well known cause of sweating is tension and stress.
These can occur during a meeting with your boss and that is a common time for people to sweat.
So there you have three of the most common causes of sweating.
If you try and eliminate them you will be able to control your sweating in a more effective way.