Why does our body have such self destructive temperature regulation when we contract something and how does it work?

Question

To clarify the question:

1. Why does our body raise the temperature so high to the point where neither we nor whatever is inside us can survive?
2. How does our body raise the temperature?
-Follow up question:
What is the highest temperature our body can achieve on it’s own?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Getting a fever is an action of last resort in an attempt to basically cook the invading organism while it may damage the body, if the infection is killed the body can repair any damage later, before modern medicine there was no other option available in desperate times. https://youtu.be/zp9Aa3Bp8SM