The average temperature of the human body has been steadily declining since the middle of the 19th century, and scientists aren't sure why.
. These bacteria produce important substances for body growth and health and influence the body's immune response and metabolism.
While it's not enough to show that gut bacteria are why our insides have been getting cooler over the last 150 years, it's an interesting hypothesis – and it shows how our gut microbiome is linked to body temperature.internist Kale Bongers, also from the."Any two patients are more than 99 percent identical in their own genomes, while they may have literally 0 percent overlap in their gut bacteria.
In further tests on healthy mice with and without a bacteria microbiome, lower base body temperatures were observed in the animals without the bacteria – while treatment with antibiotics also reduced body temperature in the mice. What's more, across both the humans and the mice, the same family of bacteria seemed to be associated with fluctuations in temperature. The next step is to look at more samples from a broader range of people and to work out what biological mechanisms are underpinning this relationship.
With more research, it's possible that we might be able to develop ways of modifying the gut microbiome specifically to affect body temperature – and that, in turn, could improve the outlook for people with conditions such as sepsis.Bongers."It's both easily measured and tells us important information about the body's inflammatory and metabolic state."
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