[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] The Average Human Body Temperature ISN’T 98.6°F Anymore

[Robert Primak]

The Average Human Body Temperature ISN’T 98.6°F Anymorehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Scf7ZJcPUY Seeker. Dec 11, 2020.
The average human body temperature is 37 degrees Celsius, or 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit... right? Well, new studies have uncovered that the average human body temperature is actually lower than that...and it’s dropping.
In 1851 a German doctor named Carl Wunderlich conducted a years-long study. He went room to room in his hospital with a thermometer, taking the temperatures of some 25,000 different patients to try and pin down the average human body temperature. And he did, seventeen years later, when he published a paper with that well-known metric of 37 degrees! He also gave us the first quantitative measurement for determining if someone has a fever. 38 degrees and above. And then for the next 140 years, we just accepted this number as correct.
Despite the fact that Dr. Wunderlich collected this data using a comically large, foot-long thermometer that had to be held in a patient’s armpit for 20 minutes. Because believe it or not, portable thermometers small enough fit under your tongue weren’t invented until 1866.
So it wasn’t until the 1990s that another doctor decided to revisit this question using more modern equipment. And he found that yeah, the average human body temperature is ACTUALLY around 36.8 degrees Celsius.
The conclusion is that over the past 150 years, resting metabolic rates seem to have been dropping. Reductions in chronic inflammation may be a factor. Less chronic infection is only one part of the picture, apparently. 
How the body temperatures have been measured was considered, but could be controlled by using the same clinical measuring instruments. 
(36.8 C = 98.2 F.)
-- Bob Primak 
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