Shouldn’t it be the most comfortable temperature? 🤔

  • Fonzie!
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    11 year ago

    You’ve got a lot of good answers, but I’m missing one important factor why 98F isn’t comfortable for you…

    Your body temperature is too high!

    Okay bear with me, please…
    As I’m sure you’ve already read, your body being 98F/37C needs to get rid of that heat, as well. Your organs like to be 37 degrees, and your body is used to it being colder than that, so it heats itself up for your organs.

    Now, what happens if the environmental temperature is usually already around 30-40 degrees?
    This happens close to the equator, the whole year, even!

    Well, then your body heats up much less.

    This means someone from Java (right below the equator) has a healthy body temperature of around 36C, while someone from a colder area like Norway has a healthy body temperature of about 37.5 degrees. 1.5 degree may not seem like a big deal, but keep in mind that a 1 degree raise in temperature already means you have a fever!

    This is also why my wife, from Southeast Asia, is incredibly cold here in Northwest Europe, and why I couldn’t enter any store in Indonesia during Covid, cause they scanned my body temperature and 37.5C means you’re very sick over there!