Because your body is constantly producing heat. In order to maintain your body at 98.6, it needs the ability to lower your body temperature through sweating.
If it’s 98.6 outside, your body can’t cool itself off.
Your body continuously generates heat through metabolism. Since heat flows from hot to cold, you need a colder environment for body heat to flow out of the body – to maintain an equilibrium temperature of 98.6^o .
Your body creates more heat than it needs. In order to stay at 98.6 you have to get rid of that excess heat, and that’s easier to do when it’s much cooler than that.
Because our bodies need to operate in temperatures which are typically far below 98.6 so we’re endothermic (warm blooded). Our bodies create heat which is normally necessary to keep our organs functional.
We dump excess heat mostly via evaporative heating. Your skin constantly produces some level of sweat which wicks away heat as it evaporates. The hotter it is, the more you’ll sweat.
But if it’s very hot outside, the amount of heat we can dump via sweating is less than necessary, which makes you feel too hot.
Fans mostly work by pushing a current if fast moving air over your skin, which increases the rate of evaporation.
I haven’t been at 98.6 in years I ride at around 97.5 mostly. It’s weird because up until 2010 it was consistently 98.6 for everyone pretty much and now it’s all over the place
Because it’s inside heat. If you actually stuck your hand inside your body it would be really hot because our skin touching the air is constantly losing heat, thus is cooler than it is inside of us.
the body is producing heat in order to maintain its natural preferred temperature since most human habitats have temps lower than that. We are warm-blooded creatures who evolved the ability to survive in many different environments and being warm-blooded was more advantageous.
But being in a place that is 98.6 degrees will make the body overheat and get even warmer than that – which is not comfortable, and probably not healthy either. Exposing the brain to too much heat can damage it.
I think a lot of people would be comfortable completely naked at 98.6 degrees as long as the humidity wasn’t too high and they weren’t having to stand in direct sunlight.
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Because your body is constantly producing heat. In order to maintain your body at 98.6, it needs the ability to lower your body temperature through sweating.
If it’s 98.6 outside, your body can’t cool itself off.
Your body continuously generates heat through metabolism. Since heat flows from hot to cold, you need a colder environment for body heat to flow out of the body – to maintain an equilibrium temperature of 98.6^o .
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Your body creates more heat than it needs. In order to stay at 98.6 you have to get rid of that excess heat, and that’s easier to do when it’s much cooler than that.
That’s your ideal core body temperature, not surface body temperature.
Because our bodies need to operate in temperatures which are typically far below 98.6 so we’re endothermic (warm blooded). Our bodies create heat which is normally necessary to keep our organs functional.
We dump excess heat mostly via evaporative heating. Your skin constantly produces some level of sweat which wicks away heat as it evaporates. The hotter it is, the more you’ll sweat.
But if it’s very hot outside, the amount of heat we can dump via sweating is less than necessary, which makes you feel too hot.
Fans mostly work by pushing a current if fast moving air over your skin, which increases the rate of evaporation.
I haven’t been at 98.6 in years I ride at around 97.5 mostly. It’s weird because up until 2010 it was consistently 98.6 for everyone pretty much and now it’s all over the place
That’s almost boiling point! Doesn’t sound comfortable!
Because it’s inside heat. If you actually stuck your hand inside your body it would be really hot because our skin touching the air is constantly losing heat, thus is cooler than it is inside of us.
the body is producing heat in order to maintain its natural preferred temperature since most human habitats have temps lower than that. We are warm-blooded creatures who evolved the ability to survive in many different environments and being warm-blooded was more advantageous.
But being in a place that is 98.6 degrees will make the body overheat and get even warmer than that – which is not comfortable, and probably not healthy either. Exposing the brain to too much heat can damage it.
I think a lot of people would be comfortable completely naked at 98.6 degrees as long as the humidity wasn’t too high and they weren’t having to stand in direct sunlight.