sweatology+BA

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 is normal temperature, a result of extreme cold is hypothermia.

(3) The human body can not tolerate over heating. How much? Give examples. If the body gets above around 110 degrees F, the brain and other organs began to not function properly, an example of this is high fevers

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

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

(6) What happens during menopause with respect to sweat? Give examples. in menopause the womans body seems to almost imagine heat which intern makes her sweat, even if her environtment is average temperature

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

(8) Is clothing good or bad when it comes to sweat? Why? Give examples. the less clothes you where the more heat your skin absorbes the more clothes you where the less you sweat, its probabbly better to where mor clothes because UV rays cause skin cancer

(9) Describe what happens during heat acclimation. Give examples. when the body decomes acclimated to the heat you sweat more yet you retain your natural salts

(10) Who is "Adam"? Why is he being used for scientific experimentation? Because Adam is a sofisticated maniquin that is designed to behave the way the human body does under certain temperatures



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