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The only reason why summer sucks? Sweat. It gets everywhere—your pits, your face, your back, your crotch—and turns summer into a slimy, sticky, smelly season. How do you stop it? Deodorant? Air Conditioning? No, mere mortal, a magical microwave sweat zapper gun!
Yes. A microwave gun that blasts your sweat glands into oblivion. This thing actually exists! The zapper is called the miraDry and it promises to use microwave energy to destroy the 22,000 to 30,000 sweat glands in your armpits. The procedure is non-invasive (though it does require local anaesthesia), the gun uses ‘vacuum suction’ to bring the sweat glands closer to the surface in combination with a cooling system to protect the skin before it heats the glands and eliminates them so it doesn’t grow back. The whole process takes no more than two treatments at half an hour each time. As an added bonus: the miraDry also kills odor and hair follicles. This thing really is magic.
As a guy who sweats considerably more and a heckuva lot easier than the normal person, I wouldn’t mind being put under the ray on this. Though where’s the love to all the other sweat glands on our body? Why just the pits! [MiraDry via WSJ]
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Nice idea for people who sweat way more than average but I think for most people just finding an antiperspirant that works for them is probably key.
Lynx dry sticks are the only things that work for me. But my god do they work magic!
There is a very good reason why we have sweat glands. They aren’t just there to piss us off in the heat.
That’s almost as dumb as saying I get aches in my arm all the time so I’ll chop the fucker off!
yes, to keep us cool and to (help(ish)) detox. but over sweating IS simply annoying. There is NO good reason for it, as it is a condition, and it causes low sodium levels – which can be dangerous. So if humans didn’t need arms, just as we really don’t need to over sweat, then chopping them off wouldn’t be so dumb.
scratch the detox bit.
So you don’t use anti-perspirant? Remind me to stay away from you on warm days.
Yes, I use antiperspirant, but once the amount used has reached its maximum saturation, it fails – like trying to get a sponge to hold more water than it’s designed to. Also, sweat doesn’t smell, the bacteria in it reacting with lipids is what causes body odour. Just because a deodorant won’t soak up any water doesn’t mean it’s stopped killing the bacteria. – If that’s what you’re implying.
My post says @Monkey, not @J2ozac.
If you don’t sweat from your pits, does it come out elsewhere? Would you end up with… I dunno, a leave clam or something?
I always seem to get a sweaty head, I don’t fancy the idea of being rendered bald though, I think I’ll just continue to keep a fan in front of me.
Seriously?? You dont know the reason why we have sweat glands?? It removes many harmful toxins through sweat. Dogs dont have sweat glands, and that is why they sweat through their tongue.. Well destroy yours and then walk in the street like a human scooby doo
lol
it doesn’t actually help detox the body at all, this is a myth. But it does remove salts, which can be a bad thing.
Releasing toxins does not occur in normal conditions. But when body got higher ammonia levels, body do releases ammonia through sweats. Also covering sweat glands will mean your body wont be able to release heat. And yes increases NaCl level is harmful. By the way Iam a health care professional
There is a medical condition where you either don’t sweat or don’t have sweat glands (can’t remember the name of it). Anyway I knew a chap who had it and it caused a whole bundle of issues including really dry flaky skin and scary breath. Really why would you intentionally do this to yourself?
because a breath mint and moisturiser is better than constantly wiping sweat from everywhere on everything?
Speaking as someone that suffers with hyperhidrosis, this machine sounds like a fantastic alternative to hugely expensive anti perspirants like TripleDry and Driclor and injections of Botox to nullify the sweat glands. It is a proven fact that just because some sweat glands are destroyed, it doesn’t mean you suddenly sweat less, you just don’t sweat in those places, it’s called compensatory sweating and can in some cases be significantly worse than the original problem so having any operation or procedure to kill over active sweat glands carries risks. I’m not sure if I’d try this to be honest given these issues but we’ll see.
As someone who is dying in the humidity it would be good to get this on my forehead. But then again I don’t really feel like having an extra sweaty gooch to make up for it..
Bingo
If that isn’t the case, then it looks like a win-win.
I live in Dubai (so that’s hot, and very humid) and suffer from hyperhydrosis. Head in particular, but pits as well.
The only thing that works for me is this stuff: http://www.odaban.com/
Brilliant. Public service announcement over.