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Courtesy from a second story.Providing much needed—though little deserved—encouragement to sweaty crybabies around the world, a recent study has determined that crying and sweating seems to reduce exercise-induced asthma (EIA) in athletes. That is to say, athletes who have lower fluid excretion rates (sweat, saliva and tears) more often suffer from EIA than athletes who, you know, cry, sweat and drool a lot.

This research corresponds strongly with my own findings: I am, by all accounts, a champion sweater and drooler, and a world-class crybaby, and I have never once suffered from exercise-induced asthma. I also avoid exercise at all costs, however.

It’s thought that the mechanism that governs sweat production could be linked to the mechanism that keeps airways from drying out. So athletes who sweat (and drool and cry) less may also have drier airways, which can become irritated and constrict.

The researchers also found that people with higher sodium excretion rates (saltier sweat?) were less likely to suffer from EIA, although no cause-effect relationship was established in the study.

The findings might one day lead to better treatments for EIA, but in the meantime professionals are urging the public to restrict their exercise to eating and complaining.

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