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I don't think that's what he meant. There is some evidence that with training some people can raise their heart rate or body temperature purely by thinking abou
by imgabe 18y ago
I don't think that's what he meant. There is some evidence that with training some people can raise their heart rate or body temperature purely by thinking about it.
http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/04.18/09-tummo.html http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/04.18/09-tummo.html
- stcredzero 18y agoI had one girlfriend who became like a furnace when she slept. She slept with no covers with the window open in January in Ohio. I had to strip down to just one sheet. Literally, it was like sleeping next to a space heater. So it is possible for the body to increase its metabolic rate.
- LogicHoleFlaw 18y agoFor the purposes of temperature control in places with extremely tight environmental requirements, the modelling assumption is that a human being gives off the same amount of thermal energy as a standard 100-watt incandescent lightbulb. When you check into the clean room, you turn off your bulb. When you leave you turn it back on. The bulbs also serve as a handy way to tell who is in the lab that day :)
- byrneseyeview 18y agoI didn't realize that, and while it's informative and interesting, that doesn't change the issue: the article was talking about the extra calorie consumption from the mental process, not the extra calorie consumption caused by a mental process that leads to raising one's pulse, flexing one's abs, moving one's eyes, typing a comment, or swimming a lap.