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Why is it that when i wake up at 300 every morning overheating and sweating profusely?

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SWEATING PROFUSELY: While sleeping your metabolism is at work and your sympathetic nervous system prevails over the parasympathetic ns. These are the signs of over stimulation of the ns. You will learn this in physiology.

Answered 1/22/2017

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