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‘The Heat Will Kill You First’

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CHAPTER

The Fear of Extreme Heat

Most people, I think, believe that if they're relatively young and healthy, extreme heat is not going to kill them. Do you think most people tend to overestimate their ability to adapt to extreme heat? Absolutely. That's one of the reasons why these sort of higher and higher temperatures are more and more concerning. Our bodies have these thermal limits that we can tolerate. But once they get beyond that level, you get in trouble really quickly.

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