Icy showers and wearing fewer clothes could be the key to raising your body temperature, says one expert
I am a radiator-hugging hater of being cold. It makes me tense and tetchy. But what if you are in your house, heated to 18C (64F), wearing a scarf so long and fluffy that it wraps around you four times and buries your chin, and you are still chilly? What if you are the one in the office always huddled under a shawl, blue-nosed, while everyone else goes about their business in T-shirts?
Clearly, these situations pose no threat to maintaining a core body temperature of about 36.5C. In 1970, fewer people had central heating, and the temperature of the average British home in winter was 12C. As much as I appreciate my gas boiler, the sound of it revving up to burn more fossil fuel has come to represent climate-crisis doom. I aspire to feel cosy at 12C. Can I ever become one of those rosy-cheeked hardy types who pop to the corner shop in flip-flops in February?
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