Health is made from your daily choices.
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Question number 47 in our School of Fitness.
Interestingly enough we actually uncover new scientific facts about the human body every single day.
Things we thought we knew sometimes become nothing more than the incorrect truth of yesterday. All while we continually prove that life and nature, and biology itself is endlessly progressive and changing.
So for today, I would like to know if we can still make the fact-based claim that the core temperature of the modern-day human body is still 37c on average?...
Or has this well established scientific fact actually changed in the last 100 years?.
Read on beyond the break and dig deeper into our fitness school question before you pony up the right answer.
2050AD.
The developed world
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Make up your mind, and once you have made your pick click the "And the Correct Answer is" label down below to reveal the right one.
1.
Yes, the core temperature of the human body can still be considered to be 37c on average in a healthy, adult human being.
2.
No, this old and well-established fact about the human body has like so many other things actually changed over the decades since its discovery.
Today, we know that the average core temperature of the human body has actually increased with about 0.59c for men and 0.32c for women.
3.
No, this old and previously long-established scientific fact has had to give way to a deeper scientific knowledge and our constant evolution of society, the human body, and changes in human consumption and activity.
Ending up with a situation where our current generation is displaying an average core temperature that is lower than 37c (in general). Having decreased about 0.59C for men, and 0.32c in women in the last 100 years.
If we consider the average body temperature to be measured orally then current data sets ( roughly 700 000 men and women in the study which you can find down below) going back to 1860 showcase that the average body temperature for men and women has decreased slowly over the decades. And what is interesting about that from a health & fitness perspective is that our inner body temperature correlates to our human metabolism.
And since we are living in a time and age of increased visceral body fat, skyrocketing body fat % at large, huge increases in body mass, and obesity & diabetes. Together with ever-decreasing amounts of fitness activity and physical activity at all. And increased calorie consumption as well as comfort and indoor temperatures...
Well.... What can we take with us from this?
And what logical conclusions can we make?
Well, consider this.
The less we are physically active, the lower our daily metabolism and the worse our system becomes at using our food as a healthy muscle mass building fuel and health improving energy.
Further, in the same time frame, people have increasingly started to eat more calories. Way more than we actually use up on a daily basis. Resulting in a human body that uses less energy on a daily basis, while it stores more body fat and endures an increased insulin response whenever it consumes any food.
On top of this, indoor temperatures have increased, as have our insulation.
And we also know that a lower indoor temperature or exposure to outdoor cold weather actually boosts our bodies' abilities to store fat as brown fat (quick and easy to use as energy fat) instead of unhealthy long-lasting white fat.
So while this study which you can find down below is of little fitness relevance, it represents another change in the human body which according to me, fits right into the data-driven picture of the modern-day human becoming increasingly lazy and unhealthy in their daily life and choices.
Yes, I know, the study itself talk about the elimination of some diseases as the reason for our lowering average body temperature, and I am sure that is a small contributing factor, but the obvious remain, people are making increasingly unhealthy choices in general, and our body temperature (and metabolism, both its rate and the quality by which it operates) is strongly connected to our daily lifestyle choices.
Oh? Are you wondering how big the difference in body temperature is on average?.
According to this study, its decreased 0.59C for men, and 0.32c in women in about 100 years.
On the flip side, this is another thing which you should use as inspiration to start making healthier and more active everyday choices.
You can find a link down below to the study in question.
Keep on grinding people, and stay healthy fit.
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