2026/01/14 by Nuno Abel Koch Esteves, Daisy Luck, Hannah Blount +5 · 1 voice
Medicine · #Exercise and Physiological Responses #Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control #Thermoregulation and physiological responses
paper · doi:10.1152/ajpregu.00271.2025
openalex publication_date 2026/01/14 · openalex created_date 2026/01/15 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
We present a novel approach to characterize the energy cost of a common human cool-seeking behavior (i.e., manual fanning) and its individual variability during heat stress. Results indicate that our novel approach, which combine accelerometery (movement patterns) and indirect calorimetry (energy expenditure), is feasible and effective. This approach could be applied to a variety of thermal behaviors, thereby broadening the methodological toolkit available to researchers to study the relationship between behavioral and autonomic human thermoregulation.