the.com/thermoregulation
Your body fighting to stay 37°C while the world votes otherwise.
means The physiological process by which an organism maintains its internal body temperature within a stable range despite changes in the surrounding environment.
from Built from Greek 'therme' (heat, the same root in thermometer and thermos) and Latin 'regulare' (to control, to keep straight, from 'regula,' a rule or ruler). The word itself is a 19th/20th-century scientific compound, stitched together once physiologists needed a precise term for the body's heat-management machinery — sweating, shivering, blood vessels widening and narrowing — rather than borrowing from any single ancient myth or story.
- shivering math
- muscle tremors generate heat via rapid contraction, no movement needed
- sweat cost
- evaporating one liter removes about 580 kilocalories of heat
- fever logic
- brain raises setpoint on purpose to cook out pathogens
- extremity sacrifice
- blood vessels in fingers constrict first to protect the core