Resistance to cold

Is it possible for humans to grow a resistance to cold temperatures? I ask this because my friend is skinny and I have seen him go out in under 30 degrees weather with just a tee shirt on and he doesn't shiver or anything.

try living in Norway for a while and you will find out!!!!!!

Never lived there before but if it is cold there then I don't think I want to live there.Anyway some people just do crazy things sometimes.I don't think it has anything to do with resistance through.JM

not really.... humans have to remain at a certain temp..... he may be a lil more tolerant to the cold....

The Inuits can live in low temperature levels.

I have a friend who ALWAYS wears a t-shirt, no matter how low the temperature is 😖 even when we went skiing with school once, and it snowed 😑

Yeah, it's definitely possible. Anybody can survive being outside in cold weather with a t-shirt and shorts on, but some people are more comfortable doing so.

If you live in a cold climate long enough your blood gets thicker, if you live in a hot climate long enough your blood gets thinner. At least that's what I heard.

thats kool.... but i thought the higher the altitude the thicker your blood gets and the lower the altitude the thinner ur blood gets....

is it possible to be resistant to warm temperatures also? i have a friend who even in the summer when its hitting 100 degrees or higher will wear a sweatshirt...just because she likes it.

It seems when I work out regularly for months, I don't get cold...

...So I guess if the blood is pump'n well, you can become resistant...

Originally posted by finti
try living in Norway for a while and you will find out!!!!!!

All I can do is agree with Finti in this case. I live in California, resistance to cold is something we really don't need or care about...except during two or three months out of...oh, 12? 😛

It's called temperature adaptation. That's why it feels really warm out in March when it's only 60-ish degrees and it feels really cold out in October when it's only 60-ish degrees. (You like that bit of parallelism there?)

I'm really resistant to heat, semi-resistant to cold. But heat doesn't bother me at all.

I'm really resistant to heat, semi-resistant to cold. But heat doesn't bother me at all.

You're quite lucky. On the complete opposite spectrum, I am completely temperature intolerant. I'm either too hot or too cold; my hands and feet usually feel like ice. In the summer I get extremely sick from the heat...yuck.

Originally posted by Captain REX
All I can do is agree with Finti in this case. I live in California, resistance to cold is something we really don't need or care about...except during two or three months out of...oh, 12? 😛

what when the temperature hits a whopping 10 degrees rex 😛