Eli5: if humans run at 37.5 degrees Celsius why do temperatures lower than that feel hotter?

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Thinking about this while I sit in 20 degrees heat sweating my ass off. Like shouldn’t anything under 37 degrees feel cold to us?

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To maintain the body temperature, do maintenance procedures on the body or perform physical work, we constantly produce energy and radiate it to the environment. This can only happen if there is a temperature differnece or we sweat and evaporate the water. Evaporation can’t happen if the air is too moist and can’t accept any more water.

Feeling hot at 20° ambient would require unusual circumstances like having eaten a large hot dinner or some medical condition.

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