Are we really comfortable living in central heating environment?

A new paper published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B indicates the dangers of living in an "eternal summer." The authors are from a team of researchers at the University of Aberdeen in the U.K. They think that we may be working against health related bodily systems which have evolved during hundreds of thousands of years to protect us from dangers in each unique season. Artificially changing the environment we live in, such as living in central heating environment, may be responsible for this.
Humans are sensitive to seasonal variations, as has been known for scientists—it is in our genes, about a quarter of them by recent estimates. We simulate summer conditions and go on to live in heated homes filled with light and heat when winter comes, doesn't it have any impacts on our bodies? It is still an unsolved mystery. The researchers evolved in this paper believe that there is an impact, which is not good.
According to the researchers, our bodies have been programmed to adapt regularly to seasonal changes. Important genes have evolved to the nudge the production of proteins, normally would be responsible for helping guard against ailments like the flu. If we stay in relatively high temperature, which seems to fool our body into thinking that they will be in summer all the time, it will make us more vulnerable. They also point out that modern people are protecting themselves artificially against global warming. When the temperature grows higher, we tend to keep the thermostat at the level we like. However, it could be dangerous, for we don't know what the real condition outside is when we are in the environment created as we like. It leads to disconnect between the reality and us.
The study provides many kinds of scenarios surrounding seasonal disruption, stressing out what the researchers believe are key areas of concern—all from a variety of viewpoints which include an overall environmental perspective, one focused on agricultural and others focused on anthropological, veterinary or biomedical standpoints—with each circling around the de-synchronization of our internal biology and the real environment outside of our virtual existences. Each topic can be an area of study and they can be put together to form the basis of a framework for trans-disciplinary research, which can finally unlock the secret of the impact of humans living in artificial environments, according to the researchers.
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