sweat

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a: Sweat ~
b: WD-40 for your mind

What:

"Sweat is like WD-40 for your mind--it lubricates the rusty hinges of your brain and makes your thinking more fluid. Exercise allows your conscious mind to access fresh ideas that are buried in the subconscious."


Useful?
Writer: Christopher Bergland
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Where:
Date: Dec 30 2015 7:30 PM



a: sweat ~
b: AC for your body

What:


Useful?
Writer: Selene Yeager
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Where:
Date: Dec 30 2015 7:34 PM



a: sweat ~
b: flowers to my nose

What:

"The feel of your muscles is a balm to my body, and the smell of your sweat is like flowers to my nose."


Useful?
Writer: Betty Ann Miller
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Where:
Date: Dec 30 2015 7:36 PM


Your Skin A Big Kidney...

a: sweat duct ~
b: a renal tubule

What:

"In some ways the eccrine sweat duct is like a renal tubule. The pH of sweat is between 4.0 and 6.8; it contains sodium, potassium chloride, lactate, urea and ..."


Useful?
Writer: Richard Weller, ‎Hamish Hunter, ‎Margaret W. Mann
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Where:
Date: Dec 30 2015 7:39 PM



a: sweat gland ~
b: a spring

What:

"The sweat-gland is like a spring in which water is always bubbling up from streams down under-ground"


Useful?
Writer: William Thayer Smith - 1885
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Where:
Date: Oct 16 2015 4:58 PM



a: sweat gland ~
b: coiled tube

What:

"Each sweat gland is like a tiny, coiled tube. These glands are in the inner layer of the skin, or dermis, and they produce sweat"


Useful?
Writer: Jennifer Kenny
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Date: Oct 16 2015 4:57 PM



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