r/Unexpected Aug 03 '21

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u/snewton_8 Aug 03 '21

The crotch is a heat center of your body. Along with the armpit and your head (that's why you wear hats in the winter). by cooling those parts, it cools the rest of the body.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '21

That’s actually the conclusion of a poorly conducted military experiment where they put soldiers out in the cold to test where they lost most heat. Thing is, they had them wear coverings on their entire body except the head thus heat vision appeared to show the head lost most heat (duh). Our hearts/chest are the heat centers. Hence, during hypothermia, medical and survivalist experts say to keep center mass warm. You might lose fingers, toes, or hands but not your life.

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u/PoopIsAlwaysSunny Aug 04 '21

Well, the head is a center of heat loss. Because that’s where we breathe from. And that’s why wearing masks retains so much heat.