i get them all the time! and i get them more than the average person would cuzz im always cold! why do we get them?
2006-10-13 11:53:58 · 7 answers · asked by kait 3 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
Underneath your skin, at the end of each hair follicle are little muscles known as the arrector pilli muscles. When your skin feels cold (thru sensory nerves that are on the skin) your body tells the arrector pillis to contract and thereby raise the hair they are attached to. This traps more warm air close to your body and therefore helps your skin feel much wamer. Goosebumps are the outward showing of the flexing of the arrector pilli muscles.
2006-10-13 12:01:25 · answer #1 · answered by J 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well what causes goosebumps in the first place is the shrinkage
of your arrector pili muscle, causes the hair to feel as if it is standing on end. So when you feel cold and you see goosebumps (your hair rises to try to keep your body warm) that's why you have goosebumps.
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2006-10-13 12:13:47 · answer #2 · answered by Patty T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when you get goosebumps, it is your body's way of raising the hairs.
just like when you layer on clothes, when the hair is raised, it provides another layer for warm air to be trapped in.
2006-10-13 11:56:42 · answer #3 · answered by wantme_comegetme 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Goosebumps are cause by a steady diet of geese...
2006-10-13 16:52:11 · answer #4 · answered by art 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because when you're body temperature drops, your skin constricts (tightens) because your body is trying to prevent anymore heat loss...so you get goosebumps because you're losing body heat and your skin is tightening to keep that heat in creating goosebumps...
2006-10-13 12:00:08 · answer #5 · answered by lylitalianbeauty 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've seen this question posted here 47 times already.
2006-10-13 11:57:07 · answer #6 · answered by TweetyBird 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
they store heat that ur body has left
2006-10-13 11:56:24 · answer #7 · answered by harry rav 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋