A recent demonstration of evaporational cooling during a bike ride.
So it’s the heat of the Summer that’s got you down? And you’re “sweating like a pig.” Well, actually, Pigs don’t have functioning sweat glands. They roll around in the mud to cool off. So, technically you can’t “sweat like a pig”. But I digress.
Sweating is cool. Sweat keeps our body from over heating through “evaporational cooling”. Droplets of water (sweat) evaporate from our skin. As liquid water transitions to water vapor, the water takes heat with it. Badda-bing, evaporational cooling.
But sweating gets better than that, because, in theory, sweating is sexy.
Scientific evidence has suggested that a chemical in male sweat may be a sexual stimulant for women. They did the research at University of California, Berkeley, so it has to be true.
Researchers asked 48 undergraduate women to sniff a bottle that contained androstadienon, a chemical found in male sweat. Another group sniffed a “neutral” substance.
Over a period of two hours, they tested all of the women’s hormone levels. Sure enough, the women who sniffed the androstadienone reported that they were in a better mood and experienced “significantly higher” sexual arousal.
So being the avid scientist that I am. I thought it would be a great idea to test out this theory.
Would working up a sweat turn me into a “Babe Magnet”?
My co-workers were spared from this experiment. And since my spouse went to Berkeley, what better test subject could there be?
Told by spouse to sit outside or shower
She did not need a two hour period for the experiment. The results were conclusive. Sweat was not a “mood elevator”. The experiment was a failure.
So as you swelter throught he summer, thank your sweat glands for keeping you cool, but don’t expect them to work miracles. Science says sweat is sexy. Your results may differ.
Harry Martin 