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Why do we have apocrine and sebaceous glands?
1Redcrest, Health Rise, Camberley, Surrey GU15 2ER, UK.
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
|June 1, 2001
Abstract:
The secretions of sebaceous and apocrine glands fulfil an important thermoregulatory role in cold-stressed and heat-stressed hunter-gatherers. In hot conditions the secretions emulsify eccrine sweat and thus encourage the formation of a sweat sheet and discourage the formation and loss of sweat drops from the skin. In colder conditions sebum changes its nature and repels rain from skin and hair.