From sweaty hands to dark smelly patches under our arms, sweating often gets a bad rep. It might be one of the weirdest biological functions of our body, but it is a vital and little-understood process that has helped to keep us alive.

Professor Sarah Everts says it is time for us to find joy instead of shame in our sweat.

Video by Izabela Cardoso & Fernando Teixeira
Executive Producer: Camelia Sadeghzadeh

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