Low body temperature

[S Bear]

Thanks, everybody, for the great input! The thing that is odd about this is that in the past I was always someone people snuggled up next to when they were cold, as my body exuded heat like a furnace--especially after meals. My girlfriend used to claim she could tell where I had been standing becasue the carpet was heated by my feet. This cold hands, cold feet, low body temperature only came to my attention after I started the 6WC.

BPM, thanks very much for searching out that link. I'll check it out.

Desmondo--I do various kinds of breathing exercises in my yoga classes, including the standard pranayama opening th the Bikram series. It certainly revs me up--I'm usually sweating just from that--but a few hours later my hands are ice-cold once again. But the references you mention sound very interesting indeed.

Maile--I may look into a non-doctor blood test. My concern with these things is always that doctors find something out and then press for courses of actions that only make things worse.

Ammy--low temperature from low cholesterol? Hmm. Never heard of a connection, but I've never heard anyone say there isn't one, either. (And I don't even have your Midwest winters to blame--I live by the beach in Southern California, and it's 80 degrees outside today.)