Thermoregulation

• Our body should be at a constant rate of 37 degrees because it is the optimum temperature for our enzymes
• What increases heat gain?

  Movement, excersize and shivering
• What increases heat loss?

  sweating, vasodilation
• What decreases heat loss?

  Vasoconstriction
• Body temperature is controlled by temperature receptors in the skin and brain. The thermoregulatory centre in the brain is called the hypothalamus.