How does the body thermo regulate itself?
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Heat generated in the mitochondria provides most of the baseline. If you drop a certain amount below that, your muscle generate a bit of extra heat through shivering. If you go over, you start sweating.
Certain animals (and human babies!) also have specialized brown fat tissue that can burn energy at will to generate more heat. This is a lot like the normal mitochondrial heat generation, except it’s uncoupled from the cell’s metabolism and can therefore be much more freely used.
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