Why do some people feel the cold more than others?
Body temperature is an individual thing. The average body temp
for people is 98.6 degrees, but that is only the average. Some
people's body temp is 97 degrees and would be feverish at 98.6. The
human metabolism will increase and decrease in speed depending on
many different things. Could be almost anything, different
medications will speed up or slow down metabolism which us humans
being endothermic usually maintain a constant temperature usually
between 96.4-98.8. 97.4-98.6 being an average for a healthy human
all year around (I am attempting to give you a broader range with
the #-#). Once you start to hit 99.6, you are considered running a
fever for any number of reasons, usually illness or in some cases
heat stroke (but heat strokes tend to make you quite a bit hotter,
we are talking about your body cooking itself). Temperature might
be constantly maintained in endothermic animals by means of using
ones own chemical process to keep within temperature parameters for
life to function, but still varies of course. Fatigue or simply the
sleep response will decrease body temperature, ever have a rough
day at work and your muscles hurt so you just want to lay down then
sleep? That's because it is the body's way of repairing itself, the
sleep response is triggered by a number of things which in turn
decreases your body temperature to help settle down for rest. That
is only one possible reason which happens quite often for anyone at
anytime during the day. Another main possibility is body mass and
muscle to fat ratio, the more fat you have on you the warmer you
will be, seeing it is extra fuel to be burned and also acts as
personal insulation. The bigger you are, the more energy it
requires to run you, the more raw material converted into energy in
which more heat is produced. Also, the more active you are and the
more you challenge your body to do some work and burn that fuel you
have stocked up the more heat you will naturally produce as a
by-product of simple processes like air to carbon dioxide and fat
to carbs/calories to energy (vice versa too[only for the "fat to
carbs/calories to energy" though]). Could be something as simple as
the temperature that you are relatively used to being in. Someone
from Florida that is used to 75-100 degrees in the Autumn goes up
to Ohio and complains about it being cold, where as the Ohioan says
its nice n warm or slightly nippy at 50-70 degrees. It is estimated
that 76 degrees (no wind) is the average comfort level for most
Humans(assuming you are not wearing clothing). I cant say that
Gender plays an extremely significant role in determining who
diffuses body heat at a faster rate. If i had to guess i would say
the guy would retain heat better than a woman of the same age and
height with average build seeing men tend to be a bit more dense
and have a larger torso to retain most of their heat where most
metabolism takes place. This is a very very broad question to be
answered by us telling you alone. There are about a million
different variables can that contribute to body temperature and
perception(personal tolerance if you will) of warm and cold. The
main influences (I hope iIgot some of the major ones) are the ones
I mentioned above that adjust the temperature of a endothermic
animal on a larger and more frequent scale than others. At all
times your body receives information from sensory input and adjusts
you to compensate for the variances in the immediate
environment(this should be the biggest one). Example being when in
a cold environment your body involuntarily shivers as a precaution
to keep you active and warm. Keep in mind that there is alot about
the human that we do not understand yet, there are a ton of
mechanisms from our ancestors that have been built into us from
many years of experiencing the same thing over and over. The
unknown could be a reason that influences temperature, I do not
know, just throwing out of the box answers as a possible cause. It
would be best if you would go to a search engine and look this up,
its your best bet on finding a complete explanation to such a large
and uncertain question. Sorry for the run on sentences, my English
is getting a bit rusty. Someone fix anything in this post soon as
they see it and dont like it.
