If you’ve got tattoos, chances are you’ve heard that your ink may be messing with your workouts and blocking your sweat glands.
The participants’ sweat was soaked up through two absorbent patches—one of which was placed on the participants’ tattoos and one of which was placed in the same, untattooed location on the opposite side of their body. For instance, if someone’s tattoo was on their right forearm, they compared that area’s sweat rate with the same exact location on their left forearm.
When researchers removed and weighed the patches to see how much sweat each participant lost, they found that each lost an average of 0.92 milligrams of sweat per square centimeter on their tattooed area and 0.94 milligrams of sweat per square centimeter on their non-tattooed area, regardless of whether or not the tattoos were densely shaded or not—not a significant difference.
Additionally, for both the tattooed and non-tattooed areas, there were virtually no differences in the total amounts of sodium lost through sweat. This shows that despite what people may have thought, the microneedling or ink deposition with tattooing does not damage the dermal layer of your skin, or cause scarring that may mess with the function of your sweat glands, study authorIf thatthe case, having tattoos may expose people to greater risks of heat-related illnesses or compromised exercise or work performance, since sweating is the main way humans thermoregulate during exercise or in hot conditions, Desbrow said in aThe line of...
“However, the sweat response was triggered using an artificial stimulation technique rather than under exercising conditions,” he said in the release.
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