• Question: What is the body attempting to protect by going into hypothermia?

    Asked by scaffolding to Andrew on 22 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Andrew Swale

      Andrew Swale answered on 22 Jun 2013:

      I wouldn’t say the body is trying to protect anything – it is not seen as a survival instinct

      Hypothermia simply results due to our core body temperature dropping below a certain level (approx. 35 degrees)

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