alt Hacker NewsSensing warm and cool: how the body detects temperature changes
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Will this help to better therapy for hyperhidrosis? I hope
In this context, something fascinating is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_grill_illusion
You can artificially induce a burning pain sensation using alternating strips of mildly warm and mildly cold.
Here William Osman of all people builds one of these and uses it on his friends
I have CNS and nerve damage from covid and my hands are basically my regulators now
I get Raynauds syndrome even in the summer
Basically if my hands are warm, I am warm, if my hands are cold my entire body is cold
always wanted to try this Sony cooling device
* https://www.sony.com.hk/reonpocket/2026/en/
but wrist heater/cooler might also work
We still don't know how, like from a physics point of view, thermoreceptors detect temperature.
> “These findings could help explain what happens when the body’s thermoreceptors become impaired in ageing and disease.”
> ...this new understanding of the body’s thermoreceptors could inform treatments for people struggling with thermal dysfunction.
It would be amazing if this research also led to a treatment for the rare symptom of temperature reversal caused by ciguatera fish poisoning (ciguatoxin neurotoxins) overstimulating one's nerves. I am not personally afflicted but have friends who have been; one is still dealing with various symptoms many years later.