system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
eli5 If we sweat to cool our bodies down, then why do we have cold sweats?
gpt
They are generally part of your fight or flight mechanism, when you have a shock your body prepares for a burst of activity, knowing that if you do have that burst of activity you will need to cool down it gets ahead of the game by sweating before the activity takes place.