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Frigid winds make you shiver; dry air chaps unprotected lips and hands; and a lack of sunshine can even cause depression. Cold weather also puts immense strain on the heart. Low temperatures cause your blood vessels and arteries to narrow, restricting blood flow and reducing oxygen to the heart. Your heart must pump harder to circulate blood through the constricted blood vessels. As a result, your blood pressure increases. A sudden spike in blood pressure â especially when paired with outdoor exertion, such as shoveling a snowy sidewalk â can cause serious issues such as: 1  Unstable chest pain.
The hypothalamus is the temperature-regulating centre of the brain. It contains receptors which are sensitive to the temperature of the blood flowing through the brain. Temperature sensitive receptors in the skin also feed back information to the hypothalamus about the temperature of the skin surface.Changes in core body temperature cause the hypothalamus to send nerve impulses to the sweat glands, muscles and blood vessels to raise or lower the temperature.If the core temperature goes up the body loses heat to bring it down again.f the body is too hot... ...the blood vessels leading to the skin capillaries dilate, known as vasodilation. This allows lots of blood to flow near the surface and heat is lost through the skin by convection and radiation. The hairs of the body lie flat to avoid trapping an insulating layer of air.