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What controls body temperature?

Temperature, thirst, hunger and rhythm — managed without you.

The simple answer

While you've been reading, something has been holding your temperature within a fraction of a degree, tracking your hydration, timing your hunger, and adjusting your heart rate. None of it reached your awareness.

Go deeper

There's more: temperature, thirst, hunger and rhythm — managed without you. The full explanation — and the interactive version you can tap and quiz yourself on — lives in the app.

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