Yesterday we talked to you about heartbeat and about all sorts of harmless reasons. In my opinion, an increase in body temperature during a common cold is a completely harmless reason. It happens to everyone.
So for every degree of body temperature above 37, our pulse rises by about 10 beats per minute. It's all about metabolism.
Well, that is, back in the 80s of the last century, this topic was traveled far and wide. Scientists have studied young and strong people who, during a cold, have everything in order with their heart, except for the acceleration of the pulse. It turns out that a healthy heart responds only to temperature. No trendy myocarditis, nothing like that.
This is due to the fact that each degree above 37 is accompanied by an acceleration of metabolism by about 13-15%. Well, it’s like my friend’s cold-blooded turtle warmed up under a table lamp and began to run like clockwork. The higher the body temperature, the faster everything inside us works.
I immediately remembered the story about
heating cancer patients in a hot bath. Those were given anesthesia in order to painlessly bring them to the required temperature. So, such people had to pour in an anesthetic agent in a continuous stream, because at a high temperature everything instantly burned out and was processed. High metabolism.In short, with an increase in body temperature, our metabolism accelerates, and our heart seeks to provide this metabolism with the very substances that are needed for metabolism.
Exactly the same story happens with pregnant women, whose heartbeat begins only because the baby requires more nutrients.
Does your heart rate rise from a cold?
