I never processed that this is how it works. You just blew my mind
TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Your body is constantly generating heat. If that heat has nowhere to go, your temperature goes up and up.
You need to be in an environment that sucks heat away as fast as you create it - and if the external air temp isn’t cold enough to do that on its own, then you have to rely on evaporation of sweat to help shed the heat.
If that doesn’t cut it, you die.
MoonshineDegreaser@lemmy.world 10 months ago
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
It’s the feature that let us become the dominant predator. We could track large game that is wounded until the collapsed from heat exhaustion. Yay sweaty humans!
MoonshineDegreaser@lemmy.world 10 months ago
So are you saying that people who sweat more in hot environments are better suites for long distance hunting? Because I’m a gross, sweaty motorcycle and I would like to feel better about it
mauns@lemmy.world 10 months ago
hell yeah brother go kill an antelope
FredericChopin_@feddit.uk 10 months ago
This podcast will kill you has an episode on sweat and how it’s a superpower.
My meds make me sweat a lot so I must be super powered.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
And this is how you learned that you can fly. Damn it, now I’m jealous.
sudo22@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Probably not I’m sorry. Sweating enough so that the sweat evaporates as fast as it excretes from your pores is optimal. Skin being more wet doesn’t cool faster (drops of sweat falling off you don’t cool you), so excess sweat would just dehydrate you faster. Sorry
MoonshineDegreaser@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Thanks Baron Von Buzzkill
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
It also seems like this is part of why there were so many powerhouses around the mediterranean, the climate there is just right that you can work a lot without melting, and warm enough that it’s comfortable to walk basically naked.
And it makes sense when you consider that humans evolved for a comparatively sedate lifestyle (even hunting isn’t going to involve sprinting that much) in subsaharan africa.