Sweat is usually something people try to hide, wipe away or mask with deodorant, but it is also one of the body’s richest, least exploited data streams. Long before a person feels sick, subtle shifts ...

I don’t need a thermometer to tell me when the temperature has gone over 90°F. All I need is my left wrist. That’s where I wear my watch, and the instant the air temp pops past 90, I get a rash under ...

Body odor develops when sweat mixes with bacteria on your skin. Apocrine glands are the glands most closely associated with body odor. Regularly showering and wearing deodorant can decrease your body ...

Sweat, especially underarm sweat, has long been treated as something to be plugged, blocked, and masked at the expense of skin irritation, and the aisles of personal care products pushing the zero ...

Human sweat does more than cool us down during a workout or a stressful day. It provides you with biological signals that can transform how we monitor health. Emerging research uses this readily ...

Jessica was a writer on the Wellness team, with a focus on health technology, eye care, nutrition and finding new approaches to chronic health problems. Expertise Public health, new wellness ...

Move over blood tests, sweat could soon be the new way to assess the body's health status. Researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed a wearable ...