The Expert’s Notes: 'Our Life: is it better to enjoy it to the fullest, live it longer, live it healthier, or is there a way to have them all? Part8'
Multi-modal body temperature response to weather or climate, ranging from freezing to overheating, further exemplifies the phenotypic differences in the mechanisms of regulating homeostatic responses to the challenges discussed in the previous Expert’s note with respect to the topic of offering a healthy lifespan for everyone. This regulation involves diverse metabolic, biochemical, physiological, behavioral, and social mechanisms, each with direct and indirect impacts on body heat generation, conservation, and loss, which vary phenotypically, as primary, across different individuals. This approach contrasts with the traditional viewpoint based on population and experimental studies of an 'average' individual, which aims to increase healthy lifespan for this unknown ‘average’ person rather than for each specific individual.
Some of these phenotypically different mechanisms are closely related to energy metabolism, hemodynamics, and water-electrolyte balance. This regulation must adapt to different climatic zones, ranging from extreme to mild. This complexity presents a challenge for both personal and societal life, impacting industries such as clothing, food and beverages, and cooling/heating devices. It also affects social environments, including the regulation of heating and cooling rules, access to respective goods, and sectors like medicine, recreation, and wellness, which currently operate in a largely imprecise state.
Currently, the later industries offer physiotherapeutic, balneological, fitness, and spa procedures without fully understanding their impact on the various mechanisms regulating core body temperature, an important homeostatic state, in each individual. This lack of precise knowledge imposes a significant immediate or long-term health risk for individuals after they leave these wellness, spa, and fitness centers, or hotels and resorts with wellness procedures, as a result of their ‘rests’ during vacations or weekends.
This is another example of issues in extending healthspan, stemming from the current state of the imprecise medicine and wellness industries.
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