Do your feet have an impact on your body’s temperature?
At night sleeping, do you get hot at times and push the covers off your feet in order to cool down? Or does the opposite occur; your feet are freezing and suddenly become warm when you put on socks? It can seem like the feet are one of the body’s temperature regulators.
Feet do indeed have a big impact on keeping a stable body temperature. The feet have a large amount of blood vessels and surface area, which enables high volumes of blood to flow through the vessels causing heat to be quickly expelled.
Feet also don’t have a lot of muscle, which produces heat. There are 19 muscles in the foot, and considering there are about 650 muscles in the human body, the foot has a low amount of muscle compared to the rest of the body. The foot actually consists of 26 bones, 33 joints, 107 ligaments, and many nerves and blood vessels. The low muscle volume means that the feet cool quickly compared to other parts of the body.
Image by BBQ Junkie. (2008). thermometer 2. Flickr. Retrieved from http://www.flickr.com/photos/bbqjunkie/2473850888/
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