Even as she sprints through India in the scorching summertime, Hillary Clinton doesn’t break a sweat — she doesn’t even glisten.
So says Kevin Doyle in a feature about the secretary of state in Conde Nast Traveler magazine, where he reveals this quirky abnormality.
“There’s one very intimate detail that most people still don’t know about Hillary Clinton, and which I shall divulge,” Doyle writes.
“She does not sweat. Literally. She does not even glow. No matter how high the heat, not a drop nor a drip nor a bead nor so much as the faintest glisten can be detected anywhere about her person.”
A Clinton associate told the Daily News that the former First Lady's sweatlessness is well known to those privy to the politics scene.
"There's been a fair amount of commentary about that," in Hillaryland, the associate said.
Doyle joined Clinton for nine days as she traveled through China, Bangladesh and India early in May.
He notes that her lack of perspiration has been “cited more than once (along with superhuman stamina, uncommon thoughtfulness, and a steel-trap mind) by longtime aides and members of the press corps.”
Phil Reisman of The Journal News says he broke the sweat story in 2006, when reporting on Clinton at a press conference held in Valhalla, N.Y., during a blistering heat wave.
“Everyone was wringing wet, Hillary shimmered like the the frost in a beer commercial,” Resiman wrote, brushing off Doyle’s report as “old news.”
On the last day of Doyle’s trip, he writes that he met Clinton for a photo shoot at Humayun’s tomb in New Delhi.
“It was 95 degrees,” he wrote. “Her staff, the photo crew, and I were wilting in the heat.
But as she headed to the next meeting on her schedule, Hillary Clinton looked every bit as cool as that white marble dome.”
Of course, it’s unlikely that Clinton doesn’t actually sweat -- perspiration is the body’s way of cooling itself.
There are a number of reasons why some people sweat more than others, says Dr. Kenneth Williams, an Irvine, Calif.-based surgeon who treats patients with sweating issues.
Older women may experience a small drops in their core body temperature after menopause.
There are a few medical conditions, such as hypthyroidism, that causes sufferers to feel constantly chilly.
On the flip side, stress and anxiety may trigger the nervous system to produce more sweat.
“Hillary may just manage to stay calm, cool and collected, when her colleagues aren’t,” he said.
Clinton appears on cover of the September issue of Conde Nast Traveler.
rmurray@nydailynews.com
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