In all the apocalyptic movies made on climate change, one thing is clear — global warming is survival concern. We’ve seen glaciers melting, floods wiping out towns, mega-storms, people running from lava and wildfire, and an ice-age of sorts, but never any plot line on what happens to human health in the days leading up to these disasters.
Having lived with chronic and mental illness, I’ve always had an adversarial relationship with heat. As summer temperatures break records around the world, and with the UN Secretary-General António Guterres announcing that “the era of global warming has ended” and “the era of global boiling has arrived,” we decided to dig deeper on this topic. How does heat impact our health? A healthy human body functions efficiently when the core temperature is around 37ºC or 98.6ºF.
Extreme heat strains the heart and kidneys as they attempt to cool down the body. This could cause an electrolyte imbalance, and you experience symptoms like fatigue, nausea, or headache.
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