Sweatology-RJ

1. Why is sweat like your personal air-conditioner and why is that important?
 * Because it evaporates heat off you body, it keeps the body cool**

2. The human body can tolerate cooling. How much? Give examples.
 * The human body is not designed to function more than about 20 degrees below normal temperature, a result of extreme cold is hypothermia.**

3. The human body can not tolerate over heating. How much? Give examples. began to improperly function, an example is a high fever**
 * If the body gets above around 110 degrees F, the brain and other organs

4. Why do we think humans evolved sweat glands? Give examples. body to avoid overheating.**
 * Humans developed sweat glands to act as a personal cooling system for the

5. Describe some of the variation in the amount of sweat glands. Give examples. some more.**
 * The average human being has between 2 and 4 million sweat glands some less

6. What happens during menopause with respect to sweat? Give examples.
 * In menopause the woman's body seems to almost imagine heat which results in her sweating, even if her environment is average temperature**

7. What happens as we age? Why is that dangeous? Give examples. chances of heat related illness like heatstroke**
 * The older we get the less we sweat, this is dangerous because it alows more

8. Is clothing good or bad when it comes to sweat? Why? Give examples. you where the less you sweat, its probably better to where more clothes because UV rays cause skin cancer**
 * The less clothes you where the more heat your skin absorbs the more clothes

9. Describe what happens during heat acclimation. Give examples. your natural salts**
 * When the body becomes used to or adjusted to the heat you sweat more yet you retain

10. Who is "Adam"? Why is he being used for scientific experimentation? the human body does under certain temperatures
 * Because Adam is a sophisticated manikin that is designed to behave the way

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