> ...this new understanding of the body’s thermoreceptors could inform treatments for people struggling with thermal dysfunction.

It would be amazing if this research also led to a treatment for the rare symptom of temperature reversal caused by ciguatera fish poisoning (ciguatoxin neurotoxins) overstimulating one's nerves. I am not personally afflicted but have friends who have been; one is still dealing with various symptoms many years later.

I get Raynauds syndrome even in the summer

Basically if my hands are warm, I am warm, if my hands are cold my entire body is cold

always wanted to try this Sony cooling device

* https://www.sony.com.hk/reonpocket/2026/en/

but wrist heater/cooler might also work

* https://embrlabs.com/products/embr-wave-2

You can artificially induce a burning pain sensation using alternating strips of mildly warm and mildly cold.

Here William Osman of all people builds one of these and uses it on his friends

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw67_k6oDQY