How To Stop Excess Sweat (Hyperhidrosis) - Dr Ekberg

>> Chiropractor Dr Sten Ekberg: Hyperhidrosis, hydrosis is another name for sweating

and sweating is a

normal body function.

Hyperhidrosis is when we have too much of it so then we have to ask ourselves the

question

if it's a normal function of the body but we have too much

what is it that causes it to be too much?

And since we now know that the everything in the body is regulated through the brain

and nervous system

then we also understand that there's some balance in the nervous system that is off.

In order for this take place

as it turns out

the sweating is primarily a stress response

and the brain the cortex one of it's functions is to turn off the stress

response,

But when we have a lot of continuous chronic stress

and the brain

somehow gets too stressed and loses the ability to turn off the stress

response

then we have the hyperhidrosis.

So the way to reduce that response the way to

get the Hyperhidrosis down to normal levels of hydrosis

is simply to improve the brain function and reduce the stress,

and the number one way to do this is with chiropractic adjustments. And the

best thing that a person can do for themselves

is to practice some form of breathing exercise or meditation.

There are multiple devices today that are very very simple to use

uh... where you can measure your sweat response on the skin and as you breathe

and practice you can get feedback and you can learn to monitor that

response.

>> Female in the audience: So what about

botox or surgery

or just using

antiperspirant? Why not just do that?

>> Chiropractor Dr Sten Ekberg: Neither of those

are addressing any problems.

uh... Some of them may allow you to actually reduce the sweating but we must

also understand

that

the reason that we have too much sweating is that there's something in

the body that isn't working.

And when the stress response is too high

then that will ultimately cause other imbalances in the body as well so down the road.

A stress response is not a healthy thing and stress is actually responsible for virtually all

our degenerative diseases today.

So even if we don't have all the symptoms of high blood pressure

and cardiovascular disease and diabetes

it is one step in that direction.

So solving the problem the natural way on the terms of the body learning to

regulate it

we also

teach the body how to become healthy same time

>> Female in the audience: But how can chiropractic

change my sweat response?

>> Chiropractor Dr Ekberg: Because the number one effect of the chiropractic adjustment

is to stimulate brain and

thereby interrupt the stress response and help the brain modulate that.

This is a little bit bigger topic,

and twenty years ago we didn't know how the adjustment worked but with the advances

brain science today and some of the research that is starting to come up.

uh... We now know

that the adjustment is a stimulation of the brain it's almost like a defibrillation

of a pattern that isn't working,

and when we can interrupt pattern and then install a new pattern then we can

help balance out the brain.