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Your circulatory system helps regulate your temperature. When you are hot, capillaries just beneath your skin grow slightly wider to allow more blood to be near the surface of your skin and allow some body heat to escape. This is why your face is often red when your are very hot. When you are cold, the capillaries get slightly thinner. Less blood goes near the skin's surface, and less heat is lost.

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