Are You More ‘Deficient’ If You Fear Cold or Heat?

There is such a "joke" online: My dad is afraid of the heat, my mom is afraid of the cold, and I am afraid of both heat and cold. So

There is such a “joke” online:

My dad is afraid of the heat, my mom is afraid of the cold, and I am afraid of both heat and cold.

So, logically, I am indeed their biological son.

But from a health perspective, the issue becomes a bit complex. According to what’s circulating in social media and short videos:

My dad has “strong vital energy,” my mom has “yang deficiency and cold body,” and as for me—being afraid of both heat and cold, it sounds like I’m so deficient that even my constitution is contradictory.

Although it’s a joke, in real life,“being afraid of cold” and “being afraid of heat” can automatically make people associate with “kidney deficiency,” “yang deficiency,” and “yin deficiency”, as if any difference in body temperature perception from others must mean there’s a problem with your health.

Health product companies seize on this anxiety,using phrases like “warming supplementation” and “nourishment” to package “being afraid of cold” and “being afraid of heat” as health crises that must be resolved immediately.

But is this really the case? Today, let’s discuss this issue from the perspective of evidence-based medicine.