Real Doctor Reacts To Dr. Oz Question About Excessive Sweat (Hyperhidrosis) - Dr Ekberg

>> CHIROPRACTOR DR STEN EKBERG: Let me go back to something I heard on Dr. Oz the other day.

and uh... There was this lady

and she was asking Dr. Oz why do I get this huge sweat stain under my arm

on one side only

and not so much on the other.

And he was giving the

standard answer. And he said well you know sometimes people sweat more on one side,

so here's what you can try.

Get a little bit stronger

antiperspirant. There are certain things with salts in them and if you put that on

the one side.

But let's go back to what we just talked about.

We know that the sympathetic nervous system is what produces the sweat.

We measure the sympathetic sweat response on your hands when we did a stress test,

and the same thing holds true for the underarms.

Now remember the cortex inhibits

the sympathetic system.

The stress response is inhibited by the cortex,

so that means the side with the more sweating

is the one that has a stronger sympathetic response.

That means that side has not been inhibited

as much.

And it's the brain's job to inhibit that stress response,

so if it's not happening

that side of the brain is weaker

than the other side.

So the answer to that question

is well the side that you are sweating more on has a weaker brain

because these inhibitions run

on the same side.

A lot of things in the brain will cross over but these particular inhibitions will run on the

same side.

So what can you do about it?

Well the antiperspirant is temporary.

It's not really a solution. What you want to do is to build the brain

so that

you can inhibit the stress response

And how do you build a brain? Well you start by using... you start getting adjusted on the

right side of your body.

You start using the right side of your body to build the left side of the brain

and since the girl was a female and she is typically right brain dominant her left

brain would typically be the weaker side.

So if you checked a thousand people

that were women and were mostly right brain dominant they would tend to

have more sweat on their left side.

Now most people wouldn't have an imbalance large enough to show it significantly, but there probably would be a little bit

there

And you can also do things that will focus on the left brain.

so

if you listen to music for example

and if the music wants to make you move. If you feel like you want to move to it

that's a left brain activity. If the music makes you emotional then and there's a

beautiful melody you want to follow that makes you emotional that's a right

brain activity.

If the music has a beat to it, then the left brain is going to try to keep

that beat

You can also

to focus on you can practice logic and linear thinking. You can practice

things that require those things

and you will build the left brain

and you will reduce the stress response on that side and the sweat will decrease

So that in my opinion is the better answer to that question. Thank you.