Why Does the Cold Make You Pee?
Not everyone gets a winter as cold (or at the same time) as we do at SciShow, but no matter where you live, you may have wondered why venturing out into the cold often makes you have to pee...
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[INTRO ♪] Internet, we need to talk about a very serious problem with doing things outside in the winter: Constantly being interrupted by the need to pee. It doesn’t even matter if you specifically remembered to go before you put on your coat and your scarf and your pants and your other pants and your third pair of pants. You’re like, an hour, tops, into frolicking in a winter wonderland and there it is again—your body saying “find that bathroom, boy—STAT!” It’s not all in your head. It’s called cold diuresis, and it’s a pretty normal thing: being chilled makes you produce more urine. And although there’s some debate about the mechanism, most physiologists think it’s a side effect of how our bodies keep warm. Like many animals, o...
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[INTRO ♪] Internet, we need to talk about a very serious problem with doing things outside in the winter: Constantly being interrupted by the need to pee. It doesn’t even matter if you specifically remembered to go before you put on your coat and your scarf and your pants and your other pants and your third pair of pants. You’re like, an hour, tops, into frolicking in a winter wonderland and there it is again—your body saying “find that bathroom, boy—STAT!” It’s not all in your head. It’s called cold diuresis, and it’s a pretty normal thing: being chilled makes you produce more urine. And although there’s some debate about the mechanism, most physiologists think it’s a side effect of how our bodies keep warm. Like many animals, o...
