The normal body temperature of a human fluctuates between 36.5 and 37.5 degrees. This temperature is set by your brain, and this is how we feel comfortable.
If you are Lower and Therefore Get Cold, Your Body Starts Working to Warm Up. You do this, for example, by shivering and moving more. This releases heat. If you get too hot, your body starts to cool down. Your body does this by sweating.
At Those 36.5 and 37 Degrees, The Proteins in our Body Function Well. These Proteins are Important Messengers for All Kinds of Processes That Take Place in Our Body, Explains Physiologist Hiske van Duinen. She is affiliated with the university medical center Groningen.
If proteins get too hot, they change shape and no longer work properly. “Compare it to an egg that you put in the pan. The protein congeals and you can no longer undo it. You can no longer unboil or unbail an egg. The proteins in your body Cannot do that either and cannot performance.” And that can be fatal to us.
“So we have to cool down to stay alive. Becoause we have a not too too hairy skin, we can lose heat reasonly well by releasing it to our envances. That Doessn’t work well the Environment is Warmer Threaf. Thres the only. Sweating. “
Why Waving Helps
Sweating Ensures that you cool down, because the heat from your body is used for the evaporation of the moisture. When you sweat, the heat from your body is released Into the Environment. The Air Around Your Body Heats Up And Rises. Then you can heat up new air again. If the air moves more, due to a fresh breeze, waving or a fan, you can release more heat to the environment.
Van Duinen: “But, through that evaporation you lose moisture and also sals. This can change the composition of your blood and that can lead to other problems.” So we have to do sensible things to help our body cool down, she says. Temperature Regulation also Depends on Other Factors: Your Fat percentage, Your Clothing and the Amount of Body and/OR Head Hair. “Hair Insulates. And so you see Bald Men Covering Their Heads When It’s Cold.”
Physiologist Maria Hopman, Professor of Physiology at Radboudumc, advises using a fan in combination with a water spray. “This makes the moisture on your skin – the sweat – evaporate faster. That extracts heat from your body.”