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Describe how muscles help maintain homeostasis

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They help maintain homeostasis by generating your regular body heat.

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In case you didn't know, all muscles produce whatever kind of heat they can but the large sum of skeletal muscles affect it more. It's shown through lots of exercises and when you're cold, you shiver because it's your body telling you to keep your body temperature high.

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Skeletal muscles contribute to maintaining temperature homeostasis in the body by generating heat. Muscle contraction requires energy and produces heat as a byproduct of metabolism. All types of muscle produce heat, but because of the large amount of skeletal muscle present in the body, skeletal muscle contributes most greatly to heat production.

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