
Originally Posted by
Tuckervill
All this talk about acclimating....I'm curious about what biological process or factors we might be talking about here?
I can't be more specific, but what we learned in aerobics instructor training is that your body learns to sweat more profusely while conserving electrolytes. When heat stroke isn't threatening, the biological priority is to conserve water, so you sweat less, and when a body isn't adapted to the heat, you're not sweating enough to cool you adequately. Next, you start sweating more but also sweating out a lot of electrolytes. When you're fully adapted, you're sweating a higher proportion of water.
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