Why does a small increase in body temperature of 1degree put us into a fever state while we can adapt to higher temperatures on hotter days?
In: Biology
Because your body has always the same temperatura aprox. unless if you have a problem.
(First of all, I’m not a doctor so I could be perfectly misstaken).
The sweat is part of the cooling system that most animals have and we’re not different (In fact is one of our best advantages in terms of evolution compared to other animals, that is why the humans are the absolute chad in terms of hunting). When the enviroment is hotter than our body, by the laws of thermodynamics, we would be hotter until we reach the ambient temperature but our *cooling system* allow us to keep that temperature unless is something that the system cant hold ( This is when we have a heat stroke). When we’re on a colder enviroment the blood system restrict how much blood we have on our limbs and concentrate on the mayor organs and the brain to protect them and also we “burn” more nutrients to try to keep the temperature.
The chemical reactions always happen between a certan level of temperature so when we have more temperature that what is normal for us (Hiperthermia) or less than that (Hipothermia) those reactions needed to keep us alive begging to have problems, they could stop at all or just being more and more slow.
This is what happen for example when we have feber, our body tries to kill whatever infect us by raising the temperature but the body also suffers the blow.
(What I dont know is why if the body strategy is to warm up the body we sweat so much, maybe someone that knows more than me about it, which is not very difficult, could answer that. I’m really curious about it)
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