I can't say enough about the importance of sweating when it comes to detoxification. It truly is one of the most effective ways our body can get rid of toxins.As a natural detoxification process, sweating is one of the best ways to rid your body of toxins that may have been present in it for many years, particularly inside fat cells.

It's also been estimated that sweating can help remove about 30% of the same toxins that your kidneys also work to detoxify.

It may be surprising that some toxins can hang around in your body for several years, but that is indeed the case.

When toxins end up in your bloodstream or in your tissues, your body tries to protect your organs by stuffing fat-soluble toxins into fat cells to isolate them.

If your body isn't able to process or get rid of a toxin, it stores it away in a place where it's not as likely to damage your organs as it would be if the toxin were in your bloodstream.

Fat cells are distributed subcutaneously (under the skin) as well as viscerally (around your vital organs, including the heart and liver). After a toxin is stashed away in a fat cell, it can remain there for many years. Over time, this can result in the build-up of fat, and weight gain.This is because fat cells have a natural mechanism by which they increase in size in an attempt to dilute the toxins within them. A larger fat cell that reaches its full storage capacity splits to form two cells in the process of division called mitosis.

Sweating a lot (more than what you typically sweat on an average day through normal perspiration), moves the toxins from your subcutaneous fat cells to your sweat glands, where they can be expelled from your body through sweat. When this happens, the concentration of toxins in your subcutaneous fat cells can be lowered. This means you may be able to lose water weight, and also reduce the amount of excess fat under your skin.

Also, when we do regular vigorous exercise, the body can use visceral fat (the fat around vital organs) to fuel the activity.