No, your body temperature probably isn’t crazy-low. Turns out, the average human isn’t 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit anymore.
Nearly 150 years ago, a German physician analyzed a million temperatures from 25,000 patients and concluded that normal human-body temperature is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
That standard has been published in numerous medical texts and helped generations of parents judge the gravity of a child’s illness.The findings have prompted speculation that the pioneering analysis published in 1869 by Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich was flawed.In a new study, researchers from Stanford University argue that Wunderlich’s number was correct at the time but is no longer accurate because the human body has changed.An expanded version of this report appears at WSJ.com.
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