Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20160711184711/@comment-24993958-20160711202633

And this is relevant, how? I’m not interested in how the core body temperature rises and falls, I’m interested in the fact that your body get’s severely crippled when it’s moved even a few degree above or below the ideal temperature, as opposed to the skin, which can have temperatures of up to 5 degrees without long term detrimental effects.

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote:

@Castle: From the same page: "Core temperature, also called core body temperature, is the operating temperature of an organism, specifically in deep structures of the body such as the liver, in comparison to temperatures of peripheral tissues..... Significant core temperature elevation (hyperthermia) or depression (hypothermia) that is prolonged for more than a brief period of time is incompatible with human life. " Hence why I think saying in the semblance that it it’s affected by skin temperature makes more sense, as a person that has even a couple of degree bellow the ideal core body temperature will start to suffer uncontrollable shivering, disorientation, incoherence, slurred speech, drowsiness, exhaustion….true, it will not be an instant reaction, but it’s a process that get’s drastically speed up if the core body is at 5 degree, as opposed to if the skin temperature is at 5.