“If you lose more heat than your body produces, your body temperature will go down and you will sense that.”Īnd things don’t improve with age. “It’s simple physics,” says Boris Kingma, PhD, a thermophysiologist, at The Netherlands Institute for Applied Science (TNO). A slower metabolism causes women to produce less heat so they tend to feel colder. A study in the Journal of Applied Physiology showed that the resting metabolic rate, or the amount of energy your body burns at rest, was 23% higher in men than women. Buildings’ thermostats should be set at temperatures that take into account our gender differences in how we sense the cold Metabolism and heatĪs many women know, it can be tougher for us to lose weight than men. Muscle, the size of the body’s surface area and even the hormones we produce all affect how we sense heat and cold Women produce less heat than men due to slower metabolic rates, so they tend to feel colder more quickly when temperatures drop Which led me to wonder: Do women feel cold more than men and if so, can science explain this difference? Yet my male colleagues seem impervious to the cold - often wearing short-sleeves. When I still worked in an office (pre-pandemic), I noticed that often my female colleagues and I would be wearing sweaters in the dead of summer to keep warm in our over-air conditioned building. I’ve had this problem ever since I was a child, when I’d sneak into the living room in the winter and turn up the thermostat while my parents weren’t looking.
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