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"Climate change is making the symptoms of certain brain conditions worse, our
new review has found. Conditions that can worsen as temperature and humidity
rise include stroke, migraines, meningitis, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis,
schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's.
Our brains are responsible for managing the environmental challenges we face,
especially higher temperatures and humidity, for example by triggering sweating
and telling us to move out of the sun and into the shade.
Each of the billions of neurons in our brain is like a learning, adapting
computer, with many electrically active components. Many of these components
work at a different rate depending on the ambient temperature, and are designed
to work together within a narrow range of temperatures.
Our bodies, and all their components, work well within these limits to which we
have adapted over millennia.
Humans evolved in Africa and are generally comfortable between 20˚C to 26˚C and
20% to 80% humidity. Many of the components of the brain are, in fact, working
close to the top of their temperature ranges, meaning that small increases in
temperature or humidity may mean they stop working so well together.
When those environmental conditions move rapidly into unaccustomed ranges, as
is happening with extreme temperatures and humidity related to climate change,
our brain struggles to regulate our temperature and begins to malfunction."
Via Rixty Dixet.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
