The area of your body that has the most sweat glands is the bottom of your feet. The least? Your back. Sweat is your body’s cooling system – it’s evaporation serves to cool you off. But it ...

People with primary hyperhidrosis generally sweat from a certain type of gland called eccrine sweat glands. These glands make up the majority of the 2 million to 4 million sweat glands in your ...

In addition, increased eccrine sweat output in the axillae produced by emotional stimuli will allow natural odors from prior apocrine gland secretion to aerosolize and function as pheromone signals.

You have two types of sweat glands: eccrine glands and apocrine glands. There are 2 million to 4 million eccrine glands covering most of your body.

Eccrine glands are the most abundant across the body. This type of sweat gland produces the most sweat, but it does not have a smell.

However, the type of gland that sweat comes from impacts how smelly we get. There are two major types of sweat glands involved here: the eccrine and apocrine glands.

Sweating in normal amounts is an essential process that helps regulate your body’s temperature. Also called perspiration, sweating is the release of a salt-based fluid from your sweat glands ...

Chromhidrosis is a condition characterized by colored sweat. Different parts of the body can be affected by chromhidrosis, depending on the type of chromhidrosis and where the affected glands are ...

Letter Published: 08 October 1960 Intracellular Canals in Human Sweat Glands T. G. SCOTT Nature 188, 158–159 (1960) Cite this article ...