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Why Your Palms Get Sweaty When You're Excited, Scared or Nervous (2015x148)

: 08, 2015

→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut The Story Behind the Legend (of Zelda) https://youtu.be/ZwilErjfu_c?list=PLR0XuDegDqP0pKsFCF23nHSpFkH-MPwSM The Surprising Cost of the Nike Logo https://youtu.be/ZNkfcd-R2IA?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3fLCVklBGENr2Tsd2UPpOI In this video: Ever been on the edge of a cliff or looking out the window at the top of a skyscraper and your hands start to sweat? Or maybe it’s when you’re about to speak in front of an audience? The individual who introduced you might shake your hand and hope you didn’t just come from the bathroom because your palms are more saturated than a sponge in water. So what’s going on here? Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/11/palms-get-sweaty-excited-scared-nervous/ Sources: http://www.sweathelp.org/en/about-hyperhidrosis/physiology-of-normal-sweating http://www.jornaldepneumologia.com.br/detalhe_artigo.asp?id=740 http://www.health.harvard.edu/fhg/updates/update1005b.shtml http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-2494.2007.00387.x/full http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2344132/