A specific example: A family member came to visit and even extended their stay a few days specifically to make my kitchen #accessible, as in #functional, for me.
As mentioned, the kitchen has been my 'nerve-centre' for dealing with much of these past few years' cascade of #emergency issues that have been particularly hard on folks like me with no #HeatTolerance and also bonus #LungProblems during #ExtremeHeat and also #Wildfire events.
Much of its floorspace was filled with the strata of attending to and doing my best to mitigate these urgent problems, even those that relate to #lease restrictions and #SocialHousing not choosing to upgrade units to meet this new reality.
In many ways, this was not a big deal for me: I don't feel safe using the stove/oven (#balance and #tremour issues). My #arthritis doesn't handle preparing cold meat for microwave or toaster-oven cooking, so I eat frozen meals and graze from various pre-prepped options such as crackers.
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New research shows humans can tolerate less heat than previously believed. As global temperatures rise, this finding underscores the urgent need for climate action to protect public health. #ClimateChange #HeatTolerance #PublicHealth
https://geekoo.news/new-study-reveals-lower-human-heat-tolerance-limits/
Intriguing bit in this video about ketamine + rapamycin improving heat tolerance (this is not a recommendation - I don't know enough about it)
https://youtu.be/9Z4Eg1dtyOc?si=EXVnqvV6-vd7rqEj&t=2188
#thermoregulation #physiology #ketamine #rapamycin #HeatTolerance #neuroscience #POTS
Adult #coral can handle more heat and keep growing thanks to heat-evolved symbionts https://phys.org/news/2023-11-adult-coral-heat-evolved-symbionts.html paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.16987
"The #algae used in this study had their heat tolerance bolstered in the lab by exposing multiple generations to elevated temperatures for 10 years... the #symbionts were able to maintain a #symbiosis with adult #corals for two years, promoting faster coral recovery from #CoralBleaching and enhancing their #HeatTolerance without trading off on growth."
Adult fragments of a coral species can better tolerate bleaching and recover faster when treated with tougher heat-evolved symbionts, new research from the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and the University of Melbourne indicates. The work is published in Global Change Biology.
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