Excessive Underarm Sweating Treatment - Win the Fight By Ending the Struggle

By Natural Sweating Remedies Editor Daven Deloreon

Excessive underarm sweating - this is the Paris Hilton of excessive sweating problems: high maintenance. There is no better way to foul up a big day, then to have to change your shirt/undershirt before you arrive at work or embarrass yourself while trying to escape embarrassment, when your boss walks in on you having a sink shower, when you should be giving a presentation. 

The War on Your Underarm Sweat and Yourself - 'So-called' Excessive Underarm Sweating Treatments

Unlike Paris Hilton, unless maybe they are stuck with the bill behind her lavish lifestyle, when they meet it, most people get angry and go into 'self-attack mode.' They go on the offensive, attacking their armpits with over-the-counter underarm sweat weapons, that do basic human instinct summoning things like 'fight odor,' or 'protect against wetness, (while also 'fighting brain cells,'considering they contain aluminum, a heavy metal). They attack their underarm sweat response as unrelentlessly as it seemingly attacks them, doing their darndest to kill it, killing their time trying.


Once they get fed up with that, a lot of them, falling further prey to their emotional response, reason that they need bigger and badder 'weapons of sweat response disruption.' They inject themselves with botox or take drugs in order to attack the messenger (acetylcholine) that gives orders to the sweat gland, effectively killing their bank account and making themselves feel too weak to squeeze the life out of their problem. If that doesn't work they become even more desperate and determined and willing to pay, to make their body pay. This time they cut out the nerves that communicate with the sweat gland and, once again just trying to keep their attacker alive and sustaining his/her natural functions, their body moves it's sweating somewhere else - somewhere else on their body that is.

Note: Make sure you determine that the cause of your excessive underarm sweating is primary axillary hyperhidrosis (overactivity of the sympathetic nervous system resulting in underarm sweat) and not another underlying condition by seeing a qualified medical professional.

From an Upstream Battle Against Underarms, to the Bottom of Things

Sound like a losing battle? It is. These, the 'conventional' excessive underarm sweating treatments, are an upstream battle and the more you fight the currents of your body's nature, the more it fights back in ways you've never seen or imagined possible before. Excessive underarm sweating is an abnormal thing as it is. Compounding abnormal, with abnormal practices as I've outlined above does not equal normal. In fact, the only people that equation adds up to something substantive for, that something being eternal profits, is big pharma and the doctors, for all practical purposes, educated and employed by it.

So, we've established that we aren't going to get anywhere exchanging blows with our underarm sweat on the front lines (the pores in the outer layer of the skin) or shooting the immortal sweat response messenger up with toxins. That we can't even stop our body's desire to chill us to the bone with water and minerals, which we know it ought to have a better use for, by taking away its ability to do so under our arms. But how do we ally with our excessive underarm sweat response. How do we give it what it needs to achieve normalcy?

The One Word Answer to the Words 'Exessive', 'Underarm' and 'Sweating'

The answer to these vital questions in the quest to end excessive underarm sweat will vary slightly from person to person, but to put it simply, I'll steal a word aptly used by Rob Johnson in his top notch holistic excessive sweating program No Sweat! (got it with the Stop Sweating Start Living Package BTW): balance. It all comes down to finding your body's proper balance. By balance I mean, finding a way to get your body working in the most efficient manner possible.

Although you can't control your underarm sweat response, since it is involuntary by definition, you can control what triggers it and what makes it excessive. What triggers it and what No Sweat! shows people how to regulate, is the sympathetic nervous system (SNS). What makes the sweating triggered to be excessive, is the state of flux that the SNS is put into by stresses caused on the body. To go right to the solution, reducing physical and emotional stress on your body, reduces the amount of sweat, under your arms or otherwise, produced by the SNS.

Finding Underarm Sweat Response Balance By Rebalancing Your Life

Sound to simple and easy to be true? It may be simple but it's not necessarily easy since. Since all systems of your body (such as the SNS) are interdependent and must work in harmony for the whole system that is your body to run smoothly, accomplishing balance in order to fix sweat response imbalance, means making changes in every aspect of your life. A holistic plan for finding harmony and reducing underarm sweat involves you doing each of the following, to some extent:

Eat in the best interests of your body and your tastebuds - avoid foods that don't sit well in your stomach, including anything your allergic to or anything that wasn't designed to consumed by your body (AKA genetically modified and refined ingredients found in most 'convenience foods'); also avoid anything that stimulates blood flow to the heart and major muscles (such as caffeine, nicotine and refined sugar).

Get the vitamins your body needs to stay cool - eat a nutrient dense diet of fresh meat, vegetables, dairy and grains (if your not allergic) and pay special attention to getting enough of the stress fighting B vitamins and magnesium and calcium combo, through food (so you absorb them). (Johnson gives complete advice on how to get the most stress and sweat reducing vitamins into your diet in No Sweat! (included with Stop Sweating Start Living).)

Practice techniques that lead to better breathing and fitness - relaxation techniques and exercise improve your body's ability to deal with stress and stay cool under physical exertion or emotional pressure (Johnson recommends and explains breathing and relaxation techniques in his guide.)

Adopt, Adapt and Bid Adieu to Excessive Underarm Sweating

Now that you know how to rebalance your sweat response the only question is how to start. The only wrong decision is indecision, in this case. First decide to do everything in your power to find a healthy and enjoyable lifestyle that is excessive underarm sweat free. A good way to do this is incrementally, since you'll adapt more easily. Then add a new habit to your lifestyle every day or week and watch for improvements or regression. Then move on to another one. Pretty soon you'll have so much momentum that what you're taking out of your life will become things you wouldn't think twice about give up your progress for. Especially, once you can wear your light blue shirt or blouse to work with pride and without fear of exposing the chaos of underarm sweat war.

An Important Reminder: Everybody responds differently to different health treatments. The contents of this article are provided strictly for informational purposes, on an 'AS IS' basis, and are not a substitute for professional medical prevention, diagnosis or treatment. Consult a licensed medical professional before using any excessive sweating related plan of treatment or product product. Only a licensed medical professional is qualified to determine whether the primary cause of any sweating you deem excessive is hyperhidrosis or one of the following underlying conditions: any infection that causes a fever, Hodgkins' disease, tuberculosis, overactive thyroid, heart disease, cancer, pneumonia, malaria, liver and kidney disease, blood sugar irregularities and menopause. (Note: the preceding list may not be complete.)