now during prolonged cold exposure your body's essentially working to maintain your core body temperature and in order to do that it's activating a bunch of metabolic processes so that you can do that and some things will get less Attention our heart rate starts to slow our blood flow then gets shunted to the core right where we need to keep ourselves warm and the Deep tissues rather than the peripheral tissues so those start to cool off and this is essentially to ensure survival right our body is trying to keep our heart and our essential organs perused when you are in some sort of shock-like situation the thought here is that if you're doing all these other things to maintain your core body temperature perhaps your testosterone will decline as well