yo, what just happened on fight night?

**El Capitano Gatisto** · 09-16-2010, 09:35 AM

Again, even if that were true, your sweat glands start below the epidermis and distribute sweat directly on to the surface of the skin. If you plugged vaseline down into your sweat glands day after day, you're more likely to block them, since vaseline is hydrophobic and will not dissolve in/mix with sweat.

There's a few other problems with the whole idea, but fundamentally that theory doesn't hold up. He either had vaseline on him before the fight or he didn't.

Similar situation for sebaceous glands, although they produce an oily secretion which would mix with vaseline, excessive vaseline use is more likely to block them, plus even if your idea was correct you could not control sebum secretion to time it for the start of a fight.

09-16-2010, 09:35 AM	#6
El Capitano Gatisto World Class Raconteur Posts: 29,478	Again, even if that were true, your sweat glands start below the epidermis and distribute sweat directly on to the surface of the skin. If you plugged vaseline down into your sweat glands day after day, you're more likely to block them, since vaseline is hydrophobic and will not dissolve in/mix with sweat. There's a few other problems with the whole idea, but fundamentally that theory doesn't hold up. He either had vaseline on him before the fight or he didn't. Similar situation for sebaceous glands, although they produce an oily secretion which would mix with vaseline, excessive vaseline use is more likely to block them, plus even if your idea was correct you could not control sebum secretion to time it for the start of a fight.