Average Human Body Temperature Change

 

Recent research and findings show that the normal average human body temperature has change and no more the former. The former is 37°C or 98.6°F. The change is not going up but going down or dropping. The normal average human body temperature in short drops. A German physician in 1851- Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich- is the one who have set the former normal average human body temperature.

 

What caused of the drop? -  According to the study, it brought by our changing environment which has an effect on our physical, physiological and psychological condition over many years. However, researchers could not actually determine what brought the change; they just “maybe” the matter.

“It’s not known for sure why we’re all chilling out, but the researchers have some ideas.” (Elemental)

 

The new average normal human body temperature is now 36.8 °C or 98.2 °F.

 

“In the nearly two centuries since 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit (37.0 degrees Celsius) was established as the standard 'normal' body temperature, it has been used as the measure by which fevers have been assessed. Over time, however, lower body temperatures have been widely reported in healthy adults -- for example, in recent studies in the UK and the US. Researchers have now found a similar decrease among the Tsimane, an indigenous population of forager-horticulturists in the Bolivian Amazon.” (Science Daily)

The main point: Former normal average human body temperature has now change from 37°C or 98.6°F to 36.8 °C or 98.2 °F.

image from Science Daily website