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What makes heat so deadly for humans? #Heat #Heatwave #UK #BBCNews

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I am 71 I have had my best workouts for years at the gym over the last couple of weeks.
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I quit sweating as a teen during a basketball marathon. Luckily, my gym teacher knew what to do and I was okay. I didn't pass out but I could have dropped any time. It was scary.
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HELP ME !ITS 1:58am AND MY FAN HAS JUST RAN OUT! MY SISTER HAS LOST THE CHARGER😭
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So what about people with Hyperhidrosis are they more at risk
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57 BPM is fit athletic
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@eleky From YouTube ↗ 10 Jul 2026 3
They, or we, definitely need an Air Conditioner. 🪭😅🌸
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Nearly died on the London Underground yesterday, should be illegal to have carriages that hot.
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@STE.B From YouTube ↗ 9 Jul 2026 7
Everyone needs to stop complaining. If I can get through a funeral service today wearing a shirt, waistcoat, jacket, tie, and gloves—and do it all again tomorrow—we can all survive this. People coped just fine in 1976, so we can do it too.
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humidity ?
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Bloody hell man 57bpm whilst you're out and about. How active are you? As that would either mean you're a great athlete or if you're more sedentary there could be an underlying condition.
I looked at mine at the same time and I'm about 74bpm which is apparently the bang on average for adult males. I'm only mildly active, mostly sedentary for the past couple of years.
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I don’t think heatwave will do anything with hot weather summer. All people have rights to complain about that heatwave which has a minor hot weather summer devastation problem.
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Swim, soak, water, drink
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Amazing
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Death from heat is a very rare phenomenon. This is the body's natural reaction to resist heat and continue to die. With the onset of this reaction, and in each cycle of this phenomenon, it becomes harder to prevent death. At one stage it is impossible to return from death. And that is the beginning of the destruction of the building of proteins specific to the peripheral nervous system. They are a set of enzymes and preenzymes. But the death of D. The effect of heat on a doctor's eye is such that a person does not suffer much. But this is a bad death. He stays in a kind of panic of nervousness and a sense of Fear
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Geniuses
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Cold weather kills more than hot weather
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Can survive plenty of heat if you acclimatise properly, drink a lot and don't over exert. Direct sun is not good either.
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I was working at a protest in Phoenix Arizona and I remember people just kept dropping because people weren't drinking enough water.
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I live in the S Arizona desert. 109°F 43°C today. I've lived here for years without A/C or a swamp cooler. When you rely on A/C, your body never becomes aclimated to the heat and going out into the heat is a bigger shock to your body. I have a fan on me all the time. I buy a bag of ice every day and drink the ice water. During the hottest part of the day, 2 to 6 pm, I take a nap with the fan on me. When you're asleep, you produce the least amount of heat. If you're in the heat and you stop peeing, you need to drink more water. Good luck everybody!
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@Jackdaw5 From YouTube ↗ 9 Jul 2026 31
Thanks for losing the ridiculously loud music on the news page version.