Another feature of CIPA is anhidrosis, or the inability to sweat. Explain why Maria's inability to produce sweat could potentially be life-threatening.

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Welcome back. Everyone. Here's our next question, which essential physiological processes are primarily disrupted by the inability to sweat caused by an hydros A metabolism. B respiration, C excretion or D thermoregulation. So to figure this out, we need to think about what is the important function of sweating in the body. And of course, sweating allows the dissipation of excess heat through evaporation of the sweat from the skin surface. So if the body is unable to sweat, the body is unable to get rid of this excess heat, causing issues with choice D thermoregulation, that ability of the body to maintain its correct temperature. So if we look at our other answer, choices, uh metabolism is of course, that function of providing energy for the body through the consumption of food. And that's not part of sweating. Choice B, respiration, bringing in oxygen, exhaling carbon dioxide, sweat's not a key part of that process or choice C excretion. Well, sweat, you're excreting some water from the body. But mainly we think of excretion, we think of excreting the waste from the food products we take in. So sweat not a crucial part of that process. So the pro physiological process that's primarily disrupted if there's an inability to sweat is choice. D thermoregulation. See you in the next video.