Key to activate skin

skin is one such organ through which you can unlock any organ in the body.

Skin – The Third Kidney

Blood supply – 22% of cardiac output Ability to eliminate – 12 L liquid

Skin excretes sodium, potassium, urea, creatinine, calcium, phosphorous, glucose, drug substance and heavy metals.

Benet L. Pharmacokinetics: The dynamics of drug absorption, distribution and elimination. The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics. MacMillan, New York 1996:22

KEY TO ACTIVATE SKIN

In order to activate the skin, there should be an increase in body temperature and increase in sweat. If the temperature of the skin is increased, the sweating of the body too would increase. How to increase the temperature of the skin?

Key to activate skin

Rise in temperature & rise in sweat (10°C rise in temperature triples sweating)

Diamandopoulos AA, Goudas PC. Substitution of renal function through skin catharsis: evidence from the classical period to the Middle Ages. Kidney Int. 2001 Apr; 59(4):1580-9