WS+Sweatology

Sweat is our interior coolant.

Our bodies have little tolerance for even brief overheating.

The brain malfunctions wiht six or seven degrees of fever.

Sweat glands evolved as body hair vanished allowing optimal cooling of the enlarging hominid brain.

When the body's owner decides to exercise, the muscles generate tomuch heat for the air to absorb. - the same thing happens when the temperature is 90 or above.

Temperature sensing nerves in the skin send signals to the brain to unleash sweat.

Humidty reduces evaporation and makes everyone sweatier.

Individual sweat patterns still vary enormously, age, sex, genes, weight, and shape play big roles.

Everyones' inner temperature cycles around 98.6.

Heat acclimation - the process of your body adjusting to hotter temperatures.