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Hot flashes aren’t “thermal equilibrium.” Equilibrium means no net heat flow. Your body is an open system that must dump ~100 W of metabolic heat or it cooks itself.
It does that by radiation, convection, and evaporative cooling of sweat. Clothes are insulation. Strip most of them off and every heat-transfer coefficient jumps, so the same skin-to-air ΔT moves more energy.
During a flash the set-point drops, vessels dilate, sweat pours. The body thinks it’s overheating and dumps heat as fast as possible. Minimal clothing actually helps that dump. Once the flash ends you’re just cold. That’s thermodynamics. 🤷🏻♂️