Thermal Physiology + The Environment
The same PPE that protects us from physical hazards also traps metabolic heat and blocks evaporative cooling—creating a thermal burden that can lead to dangerous heat stress conditions. This article examines the science of how protective clothing limits heat dissipation and implications from construction sites to battlefields.
If you cannot effectively thermoregulate and your body core temperature rises beyond the heat stroke threshold, a cascade of damage begins to affect your very cells, including those in your brain, heart, kidney, and liver.
Strategic success requires boots on the ground- or, in the Arctic, boots on the ice. This article explores the challenges and opportunities people, and especially military personnel, face while operating in extreme cold conditions.
Do you prefer the hot desert or humid topics? Dry and humid heat stress the body through different physiological pathways, yet both can produce body core temperature rise. Research highlights how the combination of sweat evaporation, environmental humidity, and metabolic heat determine whether we maintain safe temperatures or enter dangerous thermal territory.
Temperature can be more personal than we realize. From sun-baked parking lots to shady parks, in this post we explore the science of how microclimates shape the heat burden we experience.