Air Conditioning Side Effects and How to Prevent Them
What Air Conditioning Is Actually Doing to Your Body, and How to Stop It excerpt: The dry skin, the headache, the sore throat that shows up every summer are not random. Each one has a specific mechanism, and each one has a specific fix.
Photo: Anna Tarazevich / Pexels
Air conditioning is doing exactly one job, pulling heat and moisture out of the air around you, and nearly every side effect people blame on it traces back to that single mechanism working as designed. None of these effects are random, and none of them require you to simply endure the season indoors.
Dry, tight, itchy skin
This article is for members only
Become a member to unlock this article and all premium content.
Related Articles
Dr I. Fortune Glavee: Prevention, Community and Innovation
Repeated Antibiotic Courses From Childhood Linked to Higher Odds of IBS by Age 24
Talk Therapy for Depression in Pregnancy Is Linked to Differences in Babies' Brains
