Francis Explains Why I'm Such A Sweaty Mess

Barstool Sports

4/3/2025

Dana B | Dana Learns

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00:00Do you know how sweat works?

00:02Yeah. Is that part of our thing here?

00:04That's our thing.

00:05Sweat glands?

00:06We're talking about the process of sweating.

00:08I could use this because I need help.

00:10Because you sweat a lot?

00:11Let's say it was 40 degrees today and I walked two blocks, I'd be sweating.

00:14Has that always been true?

00:16Probably when I got like fat, I started to be sweaty.

00:19Want to know why you being overweight is making you sweat more?

00:22My sweat glands are fat.

00:24No, that's not why, you idiot!

00:29No.

00:30I don't know.

00:31It's because you're fat.

00:32Oh, alright.

00:33And fat is insulation that makes your body hotter.

00:39Sweat is the body's natural method at thermoregulation.

00:44The way that sweat happens is that your body gets hot, right?

00:47Yes.

00:48And it wants to cool itself down so it secretes water out of the sweat glands

00:55and then through evaporation, the water that comes off the skin cools the body.

01:03I don't feel cool when I'm sweating.

01:05But you would if you weren't wrapped in layers of fat.

01:08Layers of fat.

01:10It makes you cooler than you would be.

01:11Okay.

01:12If you didn't sweat at all, all that heat would just remain trapped inside your body.

01:17Even when I've been, I would say, in shape.

01:19You haven't.

01:20I was 6'4", 230 is a strong safety in the NFL.

01:25I was sweating balls.

01:26Now, with all the insulation from the fat that you've added, right?

01:32Your body is going to sweat and it's going to sweat more because you also have a broader surface area to cool.

01:39You have more mass.

01:40You have more skin.

01:41Yeah, I guess.

01:42And that's what's going on there.

01:43That's why you're sweating more because of being overweight.

01:46That seems a little like piling on, you know?

01:48I'm just telling you science.

01:49Not you.

01:50I'm already fat.

01:51I don't need to be uncomfortable and fat.

01:53Yeah, but haven't you been piling on your body?

01:56I suppose, yeah.

01:57By, you know, continuing to eat calzones.

02:00You have bones, right?

02:02And you're saying, I'm going to add more fat layers to the bones, to my skeleton.

02:08I don't like it.

02:09You know who else doesn't like it?

02:12Your body.

02:14Guess what's in sweat.

02:16Beads.

02:19Minerals.

02:22It contains electrolytes, like salt, as well as trace amounts of...

02:28Whenever I hear trace amounts, it makes me think of semen.

02:31What's another thing that comes out of the penis?

02:33Urine.

02:34Yeah, urea.

02:35Trace amounts of urea and lactate.

02:37Urea?

02:38Yeah.

02:39Piss.

02:40And lactate, which is milk, right?

02:42Really?

02:43Yeah.

02:44I'm pulling out milk out of my fucking...

02:45You probably are, more than most.

02:47Yeah.

02:48Does your sweat come out sort of a milky white?

02:51Yeah, I hate to admit it.

02:52There are points where I'm like, that's a little too, like...

02:55Yeah.

02:56That color is not pretty.

02:57If you rubbed it in, it would start to look kind of chalky and pasty.

03:03I didn't know it was milk.

03:04I just thought that was like...

03:05Probably.

03:06I was working hard or something.

03:07If you were stranded on a faraway island and you had to craft a boat to escape with,

03:14you could just work yourself up and grab some of that goo off your body to...

03:19Pretty eye-opening.

03:20I do have milky sweat.

03:21And something tells me also you would be the one guy cast away on an island who would somehow

03:26gain weight.

03:27By the way, your sweat glands are called your eccrine glands, right?

03:32Yeah.

03:33And they are all over your body, but primarily in areas like your forehead, your palms, right?

03:39Yeah.

03:40Your glands in your armpits are actually called your apocrine glands, and those are not technically

03:46used for cooling the body.

03:49They produce a thicker sweat that's actually more important for body odor.

03:54If people are using deodorant on their armpits to stop sweating, why am I not putting deodorant

03:59on my stomach or my knees?

04:01Do you really want to stop your body from sweating?

04:03I would love more than anything in this world to be not sweaty.

04:07I might just start ripping fucking deodorant all over my legs and stuff.

04:10Something tells me that the wave of sweat you get from eating a burrito too quickly

04:17will break through whatever tiny, flimsy dam is created against your skin by an over-the-counter

04:25antiperspirant deodorant.

04:26Are you kidding?

04:28One time in high school, I projectile vomited on my friend's wall, and I cleaned it up with deodorant.

04:35You know, you tell stories that don't add up.

04:41I swear to God.

04:42It's not that I don't believe you, it's just I've never heard the brain come to the conclusions

04:47that yours have.

04:48Ecrine glands secrete sweat to cool the body when it's hot by pushing moisture droplets

04:57of primarily water and electrolytes to the skin where it evaporates, drawing heat away

05:03from the body.

05:04That's how we cool ourselves.

05:05Well, do you have any tips?

05:06I don't know.

05:07Like, bring a towel with me wherever I go?

05:10I think you need to embrace that sweating is healthy, but that in your current state,

05:15you probably shouldn't be sweating from things as simple as walking.

05:18Yeah.

05:19Like a staircase shouldn't make you need to change your shirt.

05:24I hate to admit there's been times where I get sweaty from eating.

05:27You're right.

05:28Are you a guy who takes a bite, and chews, and then puts the next bite in your mouth

05:31before that first bite is swallowed?

05:33Oh, yeah.

05:34I had a feeling.

05:35I don't know what to tell you.

05:36This is how I was born and raised.

05:37I don't believe your parents said, Dana, open your mouth.

05:40Well, they never told me otherwise.

05:41Is that their duty?

05:42I don't know.

05:43If I had a kid, I'd be like, slow down, buddy.

05:46Okay.

05:47We'll blame your parents then.

05:48Now I feel bad.

05:49You know, at some point, you're going to have to face yourself in an oversized mirror and

05:54realize that the way you look is on you, brother.

05:59It's an oversized mirror.

06:00It's an oversized mirror.

06:01And you cannot simply say that objects in the mirror are bigger than they appear.

06:06You can't say oversized mirror.

06:08That's not nice.

06:09Alright, that's sweating.

06:10Good luck.

06:11That's nice and easy.

Francis Explains Why I'm Such A Sweaty Mess

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