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Body temperature: Why am I always cold?


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While some people can handle being outside in winter wearing a T-shirt, others among us seem to feel perpetually cold.
If you’re in the camp that constantly feels on the verge of shivering, you’ll be relieved to hear that it isn’t just in your head: it comes down to your physiology.
It’s true: Women feel the cold more than men.
Credit:Illustration: Dionne Gain
Professor Ollie Jay, a University of Sydney human thermoregulation physiologist, explains that most of us have a core body temperature of about 37 degrees celsius, and it doesn’t vary much, even as the weather cools. Rather, the reason we feel cold in winter is because we have nerve endings called thermo-receptors in our skin, some of which are sensitive to cold, others to heat. So when you are feeling cold, that’s what you’re sensing: cold skin, not a cold body temperature. ....

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