Does aerobic exercise remove moisture

Appropriate aerobic exercise can indeed help improve the performance of moisture, but it cannot solve all moisture problems alone. If the exercise method is wrong, the more you move, the more moisture you will get.

I lived in the south for the past two years during the rainy season. It rained every day for half a month. My body always felt as if I was wrapped in half-dry clothes. When I woke up in the morning, my face was so swollen that I couldn’t open my eyes. My stools were always stuck in the toilet and could not be flushed. The Chinese medicine doctor at the clinic downstairs said that it was a typical environmental dampness evil invading the body. He told me not to be bored at home every day and go out and do some light aerobics. I walked briskly around the riverside for 40 minutes every day after dinner. The pace was not fast. I stopped when my back felt slightly damp and my palms felt warm. After walking for seven or eight days, most of the feeling of heaviness all over my body was gone, and my face was no longer swollen when I woke up in the morning.

But there are friends around me who are very wet. I heard people say that running can relieve moisture. Every day after get off work, I run five kilometers in the bright sun. When I get soaked from running, I get into the subway to blow up the air conditioner. I have to drink half a bottle of iced Coke when I get home. But I persist. Less than two weeks later, not only did I not feel relaxed, I also had eczema on my arms, and the coating on my tongue was thicker than before. When I went to the doctor, I found out that his method of sweating and blowing cold air had suppressed the dampness in the body, and instead of expelling it, it made it worse.

Nowadays, many professionals in traditional Chinese and Western medicine have mentioned that aerobic exercise cannot be regarded as a "panacea" for eliminating moisture. The causes of moisture we often talk about are very complex. Some are exogenous dampness caused by external environmental tides, and some are internal dampness caused by poor movement of spleen and stomach. If the spleen and stomach are deficient, or there is pathological moisture such as dampness, heat or cold-dampness, it is difficult to reach the root cause by exercise alone. For example, if you have iced milk tea with hot pot every day, the spleen and stomach have long been damaged. Even if you run ten kilometers a day, the moisture cannot be transported and transformed, and the moisture will naturally not be cured. Moreover, if you sweat too much due to excessive exercise, it will deplete body fluids and energy, making the spleen and stomach even less dynamic, which will instead give an opportunity for dampness evil to take advantage of.

In fact, to put it bluntly, the core of whether aerobic exercise can help dehumidify is not the exercise itself at all, but the intensity you choose and your post-exercise habits. If you just want to improve the mild humidity caused by not sleeping well and the rainy season, choose medium-intensity aerobic exercise such as brisk walking, jogging, and Tai Chi. Stop when you sweat a thin layer. Wipe the sweat promptly after exercise, drink warm salt water, and avoid blowing cold wind. You can basically feel that your body is much lighter. If you already have symptoms of heavy moisture such as severe edema, joint pain, oily scalp and hair loss, it is best to see a professional doctor to find out the cause, and then combine it with diet or conditioning, and then combine it with appropriate exercise. The effect will be really good. Don't do it by yourself and hurt your body.