Why not? After all it is 2020.
"Our temperature's not what people think it is," said Julie Parsonnet, MD, professor of medicine and of health research and policy. "What everybody grew up learning, which is that our normal temperature is 98.6, is wrong."
For their study, Parsonnet and her team compiled temperatures from three distinct historical periods. The three periods covered people born in the early 1800s all the way to today.
The researchers then used 677,423 temperature measurements to develop a linear model that interpolated temperature over time. What their calculations found was a decrease in body temperature of 0.05 F for every decade.
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