Comment on Can I build up immunity to cold temperature?
Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Be careful about the limits of adaptation. You can certainly adjust to temperatures that are colder than you’re used to. You will still die if you are inactive outside without protection below 50 degrees F (10C).
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 1 year ago
You have to get at it to die from 10°C IMO. Zero for sure, 3h sleep and you won’t wake up.
Tangent5280@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Funny mental image of man huffing and puffing trying to kill himself in a snowbank thats more mud than snow.
jet@hackertalks.com 1 year ago
You don’t die from external temperatures, you die from internal temperatures.
You could die in 60° weather sleeping on rocks. Because the rocks are a great conductor of thermal energy and will drain your core temperature. That’s why when you’re camping it’s important to put some insulation between you and the ground.
So people, in the right weather conditions, could go out in freezing temperatures in a t-shirt. But if they’re out too long, or it rains, or they become less active, or if they sit down and take a nap, they’re in danger when they’re core temperature gets low enough.
For the acclimatized people, they’ve got a much bigger buffer than the unacclimatized people.
Tangent5280@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Alright, that makes sense. In the summers of my childhood, we didnt have AC so we’d lay down on the living room floor with a ceiling fan and the floor would wick away body heat. We had to be careful not to fall sleep, because if you spent too long it would make you really cold, even to the point of shivering till your teeth clacked.