Quirks & Quarks

Why do our bodies make us hot?

Dr. Chris Heyn answers this week's Quirks Question.
Even Presidents get overheated. President Barack Obama wipes sweat from his face during a campaign event at Iowa State University, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012, in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (The Associated Press)

This week our question comes from Bernetta Starkey, a listener from Elmvale, Ontario. Bernetta emailed us with a question about something a lot of us are thinking about in the summer: heat.

She asks: how does your body generate heat?

To answer this question we reached Dr. Chinthaka (Chris) Heyn, a clinician scientist at Sunnybrook research institute in Toronto. 

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