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Thermogenesis - How Your Body Stays Warm

Your brain, not your white blood cells, keeps you warm, new study suggests

The sympathetic nervous system, not white blood cells, are critically important in the regulation of energy expenditure and thermogenesis, researchers reveal in a new report. Ref. Source 8j.

Warm Stays Body Your - Thermogenesis

Okay, I always thought it was our brains that controlled this anyway. I guess I was so misinformed that I finally ended up being right. Now the question is what do we do with this information? How can we use this to make our lives better?

Thermogenesis - How Your Body Stays Warm Health & Special Psychology

Of course it is the brain the regulates this. As you get cold you brain will have your blood vessels enlarge some to get more heat down to the cold areas to help warm them up or shrink some to restrict if too hot. If you are cold it will cause you to shiver as that helps the body to produce heat. Plus your body will burn more calories trying to keep you warm than it does if you are too hot. If you are hot it will expend energy to sweat liquid out so that your body can cool off during the evaporation stage.