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How to Beat the Heat By Alice Park Senior Health Correspondent As America celebrated another Independence Day milestone on July 4, the planet recorded another, more sobering landmark—the hottest recorded day in earth’s history. The average temperature of the planet hit 62.92°F (17.18°C), breaking the previous record set just a day before. The history-making temperature is the most sobering sign yet that climate change, driven by greenhouse gases and the warming effect of El Nino, is slowly but surely heating the planet. With a warmer environment, experts warn that health consequences are sure to follow, from higher numbers of infectious diseases to unhealthy changes in nutrition, sleep, and mental health conditions as well. Here’s a roundup of key health impacts of living in a warmer world: How heat can affect mental health What heat does to the brain How to get more sleep when it’s hot READ MORE Share This Story

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AN EXPERT QUOTE "If ever there was a robust aspect to our biology that impacts our mental health and physical health, it’s our circadian rhythm. Quality sleep wicks out into so many aspects of healthy functioning, and the inverse is also true: lack of sleep or disrupted sleep wicks out into so many disruptions of mental and physical processing." —Andrew Huberman, associate professor of neurobiology at Stanford University

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