Andrew Huberman· PhD
your hypothalamus adjust your core body temperature like a thermostat when the periphery gets warm
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your hypothalamus adjust your core body temperature like a thermostat when the periphery gets warm
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your internal core temperature is somewhat like a thermostat and that thermostat resides in your brain. So if you think about the thermostat in your home or apartment, if it's too warm in your home or apartment and you were to take a bag of ice and to put it on that thermostat, what would the thermostat do? It would register the environment as artificially cool. It would think that the environment was actually much colder than it is. And so as a consequence, it would trigger a mechanism to further increase the temperature in the room. And you have such a thermostat as well. It's called the medial preoptic area of the hypothalamus.