Why are humans considered endothermic if we release heat?

Question

A chemical reaction that releases heat is exothermic, so that means that the chemical reactions in our body are releasing heat as aerobic respiration is inefficient. Therefore why are humans called endothermic? Does this mean that cold blooded organisms are exothermic?

Answer 1

because the heat is actually made inside ourselves and in cold-blooded they operate in that temperature like frogs i think they won't move around until it gets wram out because of there blood not being warm enough and they don't have the cellular makeup for any heat retention

Answer 2

In this instance, endothermic and exothermic aren't being used in the same way as they are when describing chemical reactions. Mammals (including humans) and birds produce heat (thermo) from within (endo), while reptiles, fish, and other cold-blooded rely on heat they can obtain from their environment, outside themselves (exo).

Answer 3

cooking is another example of an endothermic reaction or system because it takes in heat it also gives off some which is the predominate trait?http://www.eduseek.com/navigate.php?ID=9200
thought this might help as u have actually confused me on this issue although my reading on the subject tends to indicate yes cold blooded are referred to as exothermic

Answer 4

Is not dirt both? Hell is the grave, wherever that may be. Cremation, burial at sea, above ground, in caves or in the ground is all hell. As such, your local piece of hell may have indeed frozen over. It will continue to exist until after Armageddon when Revelations 20:13-14 is fulfilled. Death and hell gives up the dead in them into a judgment to either eternal life or death. then death and hell are destroyed forever in the lake of fire. Note that this "lake of fire" means the "second death". No escape. No coming back from this death.

Answer 5

like we create heat inside ourselves to fuel our body