: When you get cold what stops our body from just heating itself up like when we are sick?

Question

I know people can get fevers up to +100f/37c. So why can’t our body just flip a switch and turn on a fever essentially. I have plenty of “stored” energy so I don’t see how that would be a problem.

In: Biology

Answer 1

It requires energy, the body doesn’t like to waste energy, it also is damaging to the body so it only happens when the body is seriously at risk.