{"id":129275,"date":"2021-10-20T18:24:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T01:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/too-hot-to-handle-can-our-bodies-withstand-global-heating"},"modified":"2021-10-20T18:24:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T01:24:05","slug":"too-hot-to-handle-can-our-bodies-withstand-global-heating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/too-hot-to-handle-can-our-bodies-withstand-global-heating","title":{"rendered":"Too hot to handle: can our bodies withstand global heating?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/too-hot-to-handle-can-our-bodies-withstand-global-heating2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Extreme heat can kill or cause long-term health problems \u2013 but for many unendurable temperatures are the new normal.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Extreme heat can also cause \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC7146479\/\">leaky gut<\/a>\u201d, in which toxins and pathogenic bacteria to seep in to the blood, increasing the likelihood of infections, says Walter. It is almost possible to develop a kind of sepsis infection by being hot, he says. \u201cGut permeability seems to be a big, big problem.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme heat can kill or cause long-term health problems \u2013 but for many unendurable temperatures are the new normal. Extreme heat can also cause \u201cleaky gut\u201d, in which toxins and pathogenic bacteria to seep in to the blood, increasing the likelihood of infections, says Walter. It is almost possible to develop a kind of sepsis [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}