I’ve always been curious about this – I feel like I wouldn’t feel the difference between 37c/98f and 40c/104 if I was sitting in a bath. How come the difference is so significant inside your body?
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The human body is an enormously complex chemical reaction robot.
Temperatures affect how fast chemical reactions happen (and similar things like dissolving stuff in water).
If the reaction rates get too far out of whack, the chemistry gets out of whack, and starts to fail at the important job of keeping us alive. We might have too much of this, not enough of that, or a bunch of chemicals might start producing different products that weren’t intended.
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