When I’m in the shower, my body can acclimate to hot water in a matter of mins. But when I’m outside and the temperature is hot, my body starts to sweat and I become uncomfortable no matter how long I’m expose to the heat. Why?
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The water moves off your body and isn’t in constant contact with you. Your body is still in contact with the air in the shower, so the heat transfer while sharp is pretty less.
Air on the other hand is conducting heat transfer practically all over your surface area
If you were to submerge yourself in a steaming hot bath tub with an oxygen supply, you would have to come up pretty fast
Water conducts heat much better than air, so your body can adjust to its temperature faster. With air, it’s slower because it doesn’t transfer heat as efficiently, making it harder to adapt quickly.
I think it’s skin temperature vs body temperature. There are different nerve cells monitoring those. Skin temperature cells call the brain and warn that things are getting hot, and the brain should take care cause there might be burn danger. Brain says that it’s cool, no one is getting burned, so nothing to worry about.
Meanwhile, a completely different system says “hey, I’m having trouble keeping core body temp from getting too hot” the brain can’t just not worry about it. It’s not a warning of a possible problem to come, it is in itself a problem.
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