Don’t try it at home! But think about it: your feet have never been in the shower. upon contact with very hot water Didn’t you just feel that coolness instead of heat?

So how is this possible? boiling waterHow can it cool us instead of burning us?

Let’s be honest: our bodies sometimes really surprise us.

Boiling or very hot water after touching any part of your body When we then withdraw the contact area, we feel a coolness. If you imagine this, you must have experienced it.

When boiling water comes into contact with our skin, our nerve endings are damaged. It immediately detects high temperatures and transmits them to our brain. However, when our brain realizes this danger, it not only suppresses the feeling of pain, but also adds an illusory feeling to it.

This strange feeling is precisely “paradoxical coldness”.

This situation, which is related to the temperature receptors in our skin, drop in skin temperature and it is related to the receptors that control the increases. When our skin temperature drops, cold receptors; As it increases, hot receptors come into focus.

As you can imagine, so is hot water hot receptors it activates. However, in such a situation, not only the temperature, but also the pain receptors can be stimulated. This ensures that we do not feel the pain at that moment.

In other words, our brains send a quick response. It gives a cold feeling to suppress the feeling of pain. We also believe that hot water ‘doesn’t burn’.

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