A doctor has explained why men and women tend to prefer different shower temperatures.
The ‘Wife vs husband shower temperature’ debate has taken TikTok by storm, with blokes everywhere claiming their other halves are practically cooking themselves during their daily wash.
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Podcaster Micah is among them, moaning about his wife Sarah’s love of scalding showers. “This is why my wife and I can’t shower together…this is boiling hot – hottest it can go,” he griped on their joint TikTok account @micahandsarah.
“Thirty degree burns… this is where she’s comfortable… Her temperature, boiling a turkey.”
But there’s a reason why Sarah likes the water so hot, according to London-based medic Dr Sermed Mezher. Women are far more likely to experience cold sensitivity and this can fluctuate throughout the menstrual cycle.
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“If you’re a woman who likes to crank up the shower heating bill, then you’re not alone and there’s a reason for it,” he said, taking to his Instagram page, @drsermedmezher. “See, women naturally have a fractionally higher core body temperature compared to men which helps to keep those inner organs toasty, but can lead to cold sensitivity than can worsen throughout the cycle.”
Dr Mezher explained that a woman’s temperature sensitivity peaks during ovulation and towards the end of menstruation. This is largely thanks to a rise in oestrogen which is proven to lower body temperature, while reducing blood flow to the hands and feet.
He also stated: “Oestrogen, a key hormone in the female reproductive system, can have significant effects on blood properties and circulation. One of these effects includes thickening the blood, which can complicate its flow, particularly to small capillaries in extremities like the hands and feet.”
“We also know that women are five times more likely to suffer from Raynaud’s phenomenon which can cause spasm of the blood vessels in the hands and feet. But even without this, women are on average three degrees colder in the hands and feet due to oestrogen thickening the blood, making it more difficult to get there.”
Women also tend to have between six and 11% more body fat than men, who generally have more skeletal muscle. This muscle is known as a ‘thermogenic organ’, meaning it generates heat.
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As a result, men often feel warmer. Dr Mezher’s explanation quickly garnered a slew of comments, with couples sharing their own experiences of temperature differences in their relationships.
One commented: “My girl literally showers with lava, that some sort of superpower.”
Another shared: “I dated a guy once where our tolerable shower temperatures had no overlap. The temp he liked felt cold or barely lukewarm to me, and by the time I bumped it up to “barely tolerable” he felt like it was scalding.”
However, other women disagreed with this generalisation, with one stating: “Me and my boyfriend are opposite to this, I prefer cold and him super hot.”
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