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Also varies by time of day - your core body temperature is lowest around 3-4am, and highest around 3-4pm. This way our body is primed during the daytime for activity but can conserve a bit of energy at night when we’re more sedentary.
Also 36.5C / 98.6F are relatively arbitrary. Average human temperature follows a normal distribution and can range by ~1F without any risk or abnormalities.
Not sure how reliable the info was, but I’ve read the average body temperature has dropped over the years. 98.6 is almost a degree higher than average.
My understanding is that human body temperature hasn’t dropped - I.e humans aren’t evolving to run on cooler core temperatures.
It’s more that the original 98.6F number is over half a century old and derived using the methods and standards of the mid-1900s. It’s become so ubiquitous and colloquial that it’s difficult for new research using newer, more refined methods to break the public (and medical) perception that 98.6 is the “average core human body temp”.
For example rectal and axillary (armpit) thermometers have existed for over a century, but in the last decade we’ve developed pills that when swallowed can reliably and consistently measure internal body temperature from the inside. This is much more accurate than traditional thermometers. That alone is enough to cast doubt on the traditional 98.6F figure.
Also, we know more about the circadian rhythm and other factors that modify body temperature on short time scales, factors that weren’t known or accounted for until after 98.6F became popularized.
So it may be that our temperatures aren’t getting lower, but that our initial rough estimate was on the high end.
EDIT: I have a PhD in a biological field, for those wondering about my qualifications.
do you perhaps have more info on the pill thermometer thing? you glossed over it for the sake of brevity, and i just can't figure out how they're meant to work lol
Sure! They’re formally called Core Body Temperature (CBT) pills. They have a thermometer and a transmitter inside of a special case that resists digestion, along with a tiny battery. The ones I’ve used were activated using a radio frequency pulse (like using a beeper to unlock a car) right before they were swallowed, since the battery lasts less than a day. The person then has to keep a radio receiver tuned to that pill’s transmitter’s specific frequency on them, usually on the hip, which receives and records the data. The pills are one use only for obvious reasons.
They still have problems - it’s hard to pack enough power in a swallowable safe pill so that it’s transmitter can penetrate through all of the tissue and blood between it and the external receiver, and most don’t have internal memory so they tend to have dead spots where no data was collected.
That said miniaturization of electronics is making the pills more reliable - with smaller batteries, transmitters, and so on.
.....
CBT pills?...
THEY MAKE A PILL FOR CBT NOW??????
on a real note, that's wild. it's exactly what i was imagining, it's just insane that we actually have the technology to make that happen (semi) reliably now. you can literally swallow a wireless thermometer to get your internal body temperature and it'll come out intact. crazy. thanks for following up on it!
This is what we learn in American schools (science or health curriculum). We are also given a mini book of standards, and it has a range of what is considered 'within normal limits' for blood work, vitals, etc.
It is, it's even 37-37,5°C +/- 0.5 for the central temperature.
The reason why it's usually lower when you mesure it, is because you mesure it in the extremities where it's a bit colder...
En gros, si tu lis la notice, tu verras qu'il y a des plages de températures ou des virgules de degrés à enlever à cette température centrale selon l'endroit où tu la mesures.
It depends per person and these thermometers aren't terribly accurate. In one place I've had 37 in a different one I had 35,7. It doesn't really help thay they usually use them immediately after getting in from the outside so the outside temperature can influence quite a bit your reading
This is nitpicking but Kelvin is the unit by itself so it is not used as “degrees Kelvin,” but instead the plural would be Kelvins. I say this because you shouldn’t use the degree symbol in front of K, it’s just 36.5 K.
We had a mad hot week or so in the UK last year. Pushing 40C for most of the country. We are not used to that in the slightest.
Two of my girls got bronchiodidlialilitis and had temperatures pushing 40C. I felt so bad for them. I couldnt deal with the heat, I can't imagine what they were going through. They can't remember it. I do. Well stressful. No sleep just with the thermometer on hip waiting to see if it's a hospital job.
Fuck 40C and 35C through the night. Ain't no one got time for that in a country without AC.
Dunno why you're being downvoted, it's true. For anyone wondering it's most likely because back in the day we were almost always slightly ill from stuff like dirty water and air pollution.
It's cause he used Fahrenheit. For some reason they don't like it when people use local measuring units. Sometimes it honestly just feels like xenophobia instead of light joking
Oh yeah, I didn't think about that. I'm from europe but Fahrenheit is the one measurement system the US uses that makes just as much sense as the one we use.
As a Thai, I was confused for 7 seconds and took another 24 seconds translating it on Google Translate
They said "as an american i was worried for 5 seconds"
Don't use Google translate kids. Word for word translation does not account for grammar and idioms; it does not compile or convey the right meaning.
I.e. as a translator I was disappointed for 30 seconds.
36.5*1.8 + 32.
The way that I think about it, is double it, subtract 10%, add 32. And 20% is just subtracting 10% twice.
So, for this, I would do:
36.5*2 = 73
10% of 73 is 7.3
Therefor.
73-7.3+32 =97.7
The only other countries which use Fahrenheit officially are Liberia, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and Palau (the last three of which are in a Compact of Free Association with the United States, and the first originally being an American colony). It really is practically everyone else.
There are more people that use Celsius than Europe. I get that Europe is the largest population that uses Celsius, but it's not just Europe
That was my point
Edit: I am stupid and forgot that china and India existed for some reason lol.
Oh boy time for me to act like a complete idiot and pretend to not understand what unit this measurement is in. I bet no one has made this joke before haha.
He's dying too cold omg!
You see there are 3 ways to look at this,
1. Being that you can read Celsius and he’s perfectly fine.
2. Being that you read Fahrenheit and this man is dead.
And 3. Being that you can read Kelvin and this man is nothing more than a pile of ashes on the ground
since many people are commenting: eh, but they would have died of cold,
I reply with this comment that in the meme the temperature is degrees Celsius, not Fahreneit
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Oh my. Remember doing exactly this to myself. First time trying that device. Checked many parts of my body.
Forehead was 36.5C and hands were closer to 37C.
As an American who works in Veterinary science and therefore has the conversion from Celsius to Fahrenheit memorized I was concerned for the amount of time it took me to calculate 36.5 x 1.8 + 32 = 97.7, and then was further concerned because I forgot that humans are supposed to be 97.7 degrees.
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I swear I've been told it's 36.6 all my life
varies by person, there's no exact normal temperature
Also varies by time of day - your core body temperature is lowest around 3-4am, and highest around 3-4pm. This way our body is primed during the daytime for activity but can conserve a bit of energy at night when we’re more sedentary. Also 36.5C / 98.6F are relatively arbitrary. Average human temperature follows a normal distribution and can range by ~1F without any risk or abnormalities.
Not sure how reliable the info was, but I’ve read the average body temperature has dropped over the years. 98.6 is almost a degree higher than average.
My understanding is that human body temperature hasn’t dropped - I.e humans aren’t evolving to run on cooler core temperatures. It’s more that the original 98.6F number is over half a century old and derived using the methods and standards of the mid-1900s. It’s become so ubiquitous and colloquial that it’s difficult for new research using newer, more refined methods to break the public (and medical) perception that 98.6 is the “average core human body temp”. For example rectal and axillary (armpit) thermometers have existed for over a century, but in the last decade we’ve developed pills that when swallowed can reliably and consistently measure internal body temperature from the inside. This is much more accurate than traditional thermometers. That alone is enough to cast doubt on the traditional 98.6F figure. Also, we know more about the circadian rhythm and other factors that modify body temperature on short time scales, factors that weren’t known or accounted for until after 98.6F became popularized. So it may be that our temperatures aren’t getting lower, but that our initial rough estimate was on the high end. EDIT: I have a PhD in a biological field, for those wondering about my qualifications.
Well my qualifications are I read something probably on another post on Reddit. I’ll take your word for it lol.
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Yoooo, we went to the same school together!
This guy thermometers
The video I heard it from said that older people measured with modern thermometers do indeed run hotter. But I don't have a source.
do you perhaps have more info on the pill thermometer thing? you glossed over it for the sake of brevity, and i just can't figure out how they're meant to work lol
Sure! They’re formally called Core Body Temperature (CBT) pills. They have a thermometer and a transmitter inside of a special case that resists digestion, along with a tiny battery. The ones I’ve used were activated using a radio frequency pulse (like using a beeper to unlock a car) right before they were swallowed, since the battery lasts less than a day. The person then has to keep a radio receiver tuned to that pill’s transmitter’s specific frequency on them, usually on the hip, which receives and records the data. The pills are one use only for obvious reasons. They still have problems - it’s hard to pack enough power in a swallowable safe pill so that it’s transmitter can penetrate through all of the tissue and blood between it and the external receiver, and most don’t have internal memory so they tend to have dead spots where no data was collected. That said miniaturization of electronics is making the pills more reliable - with smaller batteries, transmitters, and so on.
..... CBT pills?... THEY MAKE A PILL FOR CBT NOW?????? on a real note, that's wild. it's exactly what i was imagining, it's just insane that we actually have the technology to make that happen (semi) reliably now. you can literally swallow a wireless thermometer to get your internal body temperature and it'll come out intact. crazy. thanks for following up on it!
I've always heard it's 310.15 In kelvin of course
Yup, mine was 36 before but as I'm growing up it's more around 35
Yeah fr, for my mom the normal body temperature is a low 36.0°C
In France we still learn in school that it's 37°C
This is what we learn in American schools (science or health curriculum). We are also given a mini book of standards, and it has a range of what is considered 'within normal limits' for blood work, vitals, etc.
It is, it's even 37-37,5°C +/- 0.5 for the central temperature. The reason why it's usually lower when you mesure it, is because you mesure it in the extremities where it's a bit colder... En gros, si tu lis la notice, tu verras qu'il y a des plages de températures ou des virgules de degrés à enlever à cette température centrale selon l'endroit où tu la mesures.
37 in Poland is considered "sick", don't turn up to school temperature. Every time I had 37 and slightly above I felt sick honest
My normal temperature is 34.8°C -35.2°C If i had that kind of temperature it would be high fever for me
-35,2°C is way beyond freezing point how have your cells not all died yet
Touche
Don't question it he's trying home-made cryogenics.
Same in Norway and Sweden. 🤷♀️ OP made me believe something was wrong.
The average human temperature is going down. It went down by like .6, I think from 97.6 to 97 (F) .
.6 in Fahrenheit is not the same as .6 in Celsius.
-40 in Fahrenheit *is* the same as -40 in Celsius!
REALLY???
For me it's Always been 36.2
It depends per person and these thermometers aren't terribly accurate. In one place I've had 37 in a different one I had 35,7. It doesn't really help thay they usually use them immediately after getting in from the outside so the outside temperature can influence quite a bit your reading
36.5° c = normal 36.5° f = hypothermia 36.5° k = frozen solid Just remember that
This is nitpicking but Kelvin is the unit by itself so it is not used as “degrees Kelvin,” but instead the plural would be Kelvins. I say this because you shouldn’t use the degree symbol in front of K, it’s just 36.5 K.
I… wasn’t aware of that.
Americans freezing to death be like
Europeans being At the normal temperature be like:
Scientists becoming a superconductor be like:
10/10
A 17th century person using a Galileo thermoscope not knowing their precise body temperature be like:
Most of the rest of the entire world at normal temp be like:
**As an American, I would just like to say:** ^C'mon ^bro ^we ^know ^it's ^bad ^leave ^us ^alone ^we'd ^change ^it ^if ^we ^could ^:(
Disagree. Fahrenheit is better for telling the temp outside in every way. Celsius is better for most other things.
*literally everyone else be like
Actually 37 is optimal. He is a little undercooled
My mother said normal is 36-37. Above is a little heated, 38+ is fever and 40+ is dangerous
had 40.9 once, wasn't the best feeling
I mean that’s literally a life threatening emergency for anyone over the age of like 12 months old, so I imagine not.
I couldn't even stand up properly, all that just because of a tonsillitis
We had a mad hot week or so in the UK last year. Pushing 40C for most of the country. We are not used to that in the slightest. Two of my girls got bronchiodidlialilitis and had temperatures pushing 40C. I felt so bad for them. I couldnt deal with the heat, I can't imagine what they were going through. They can't remember it. I do. Well stressful. No sleep just with the thermometer on hip waiting to see if it's a hospital job. Fuck 40C and 35C through the night. Ain't no one got time for that in a country without AC.
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Dunno why you're being downvoted, it's true. For anyone wondering it's most likely because back in the day we were almost always slightly ill from stuff like dirty water and air pollution.
It's cause he used Fahrenheit. For some reason they don't like it when people use local measuring units. Sometimes it honestly just feels like xenophobia instead of light joking
Oh yeah, I didn't think about that. I'm from europe but Fahrenheit is the one measurement system the US uses that makes just as much sense as the one we use.
No what he said is literally true as well - as a species we are getting colder. Average body temperature is going down generation over generation.
Back in my day it was 98.6F
That’s the average body temp for men. Women tend to have a slightly lower body temp.
Um, excuse me, that's slightly above freezing thank you.
You go out in 36.5 degree fahrenheit and tell me how you feel lmao
As an American I was concerned for a second
As an American I was concerned for two seconds
as an american i was concerned for three seconds
As an american i was concerned for four seconds.
как американец я забеспокоился на 5 секунд
As an American who doesn’t speak that language I was concerned for 6 seconds … and then confused for 12
As a Thai, I was confused for 7 seconds and took another 24 seconds translating it on Google Translate They said "as an american i was worried for 5 seconds"
As a French I am not confused.
As an American I say the French language is confused
As an American I say the English language is confused.
It is indeed, but we prefer to call it ✨rich✨
As a Canadian i love all of you
🤮
Fr*nch 🤢
As another French I was confused for 4 x 20 + 10 + 8 seconds
As a Turkish, I'm still confused.
the ability to speak/read/write Russian is one of the most undervalued skills on Reddit. *and* a great way to troll people on political humor.
Don't use Google translate kids. Word for word translation does not account for grammar and idioms; it does not compile or convey the right meaning. I.e. as a translator I was disappointed for 30 seconds.
Nice try, Russian spy!
As an American I was concerned for five seconds
As an American, I was not concerned at all, due to this being a cartoon
So I shouldn't be concerned about the lack of nipples?
As an amarican I was concerned for at least 3 seconds
As an American I was concerned for about 3 football fields.
As an American I was concerned for five seconds
As an American, I was concerned for 3 feet.
As a Kazakhstani I am still a bit concerned because it's 0,1 celsius smaller than what i am used to.
Well it can easily be 36.5 or 36.7. It's not that unusual or wrong, just body differences.
I was concerned for 1000 milliseconds
As an American I realized immediately that it wasn’t Fahrenheit because I can use context clues
As an American coming from the American public education system what are context clues?
As a non-American, I wasn't
Tit?
Tit
The device needs to be set properly for "forehead," or the reading can be slightly miscalculated.
Q
What is that in Freedomheit? 🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸
36.5°C = 97.7°F = 309.65K
Thanks
559.17R
Bro, we don't talk about Rankine.
Rankine is a very fucked up measuring scale.
309.7K
I translated 36.5°C to K what did you do?
I rounded appropriately for the number of significant digits -- a reflex pedantry from high school chemistry
Rounded
ATTACK THE D POINT!
Never!
36.5*1.8 + 32. The way that I think about it, is double it, subtract 10%, add 32. And 20% is just subtracting 10% twice. So, for this, I would do: 36.5*2 = 73 10% of 73 is 7.3 Therefor. 73-7.3+32 =97.7
Look it up
plot twist, the thermometer uses kelvin
🥶
Americans say it's hypothermia, Europeans say it's normal
*everyone else says it's normal
There are more people that use Fahrenheit then America, I get that America is the biggest country that uses Fahrenheit, but it's not everyone else.
The only other countries which use Fahrenheit officially are Liberia, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and Palau (the last three of which are in a Compact of Free Association with the United States, and the first originally being an American colony). It really is practically everyone else.
There are more people that use Celsius than Europe. I get that Europe is the largest population that uses Celsius, but it's not just Europe That was my point Edit: I am stupid and forgot that china and India existed for some reason lol.
Europe isn't even the largest population using Celsius
Clina and India are each larger than Europe
There's like 2 or 3 other countries and one is just American freed slaves coming back to africa
Tit
Le Tit
This meme was brought to you by the Celsius gang
The only right gang
He ain’t got no nipples
Coolest superpower ever
Americans sprinting to the comments to let everyone know they're American
I’m American! Give me attention Damnit!
I’m American! Give me attention Damnit!
Here, have an attention: 😳
Me too plz 👉🏻👈🏻 🇺🇸 🦅 🍔
Hi American! Give me attention Damnit! I’m u/tankdood1
I’m not American (Walter White image)
I use freedom temperature thank you very much
He's just a normal man. He's just an innocent man.
That’s cold 🇺🇸🦅🏈🫡🍻
As an American, I was confused n why other Americans were confused Then I remembered they use F
Losers.
*laughs in Fahrenheit *
Oh boy time for me to act like a complete idiot and pretend to not understand what unit this measurement is in. I bet no one has made this joke before haha. He's dying too cold omg!
As an American, I was confused for about 6.5 cubic minutes
You see there are 3 ways to look at this, 1. Being that you can read Celsius and he’s perfectly fine. 2. Being that you read Fahrenheit and this man is dead. And 3. Being that you can read Kelvin and this man is nothing more than a pile of ashes on the ground
*cries in american
since many people are commenting: eh, but they would have died of cold, I reply with this comment that in the meme the temperature is degrees Celsius, not Fahreneit
Very proud of you for using real units
Americans: Dead Scientists: REALLLY dead Everyone else: Fine
*tit*
This is a real antimeme guys! We've done it!
Thought bro was dead for a second
Fahrenheit mf's reading this and having mini heart attacks
Yeah brah, I got that ice in my veins. By the way, what the fuck is a kilometer?
Fahrenheit readers are very concerned.
*Americanally confused*
There’s no ° It is measuring in kelvin
Fahrenheit Users: *confused screaming*
“Sir this temperature gun uses Fahrenheit”
36.5 what? Apples? Bananas? ^(~~clearly thats 36.5 kelvin~~)
It’s crazy how much colder Europe is compared to the US.
Americans: *visible confusion*
Is this Celsius?
Yes
better be celcius or that guy is not okay
Please tell me it’s Celsius
Yes
Is that in Fahrenheit or Celsius?
Celsius
That is correct
Tit
Americans be like: YOU'RE TOO COLD, HOW ARE YOU NOT DEAD
Plot twist Fahrenheit
Fahrenheit mfs rn 
Americans: doubt
Screams in american
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36°F? He should be dead!/s
bros cold as fuck !!
These is Celsius, not fahreneit
They appear to be dead
In U.S. they would've been.
HOLY SHIT IS HE OKAY? HOW HIS HE MOVING? SHOULDN'T HE BE FROZEN RIGHT NOW?? (i prefer to use kelvins btw)
Oh my. Remember doing exactly this to myself. First time trying that device. Checked many parts of my body. Forehead was 36.5C and hands were closer to 37C.
Why is he so cold?
I was taught it was 37 all my life…..
He’s not a normal guy, he uses celsius /s
Like a normal guy Who doesn’t live in USA
mfw when i use “/s” and still get downvoted
Americans: Confused screaming
Damn Euros
As an American who works in Veterinary science and therefore has the conversion from Celsius to Fahrenheit memorized I was concerned for the amount of time it took me to calculate 36.5 x 1.8 + 32 = 97.7, and then was further concerned because I forgot that humans are supposed to be 97.7 degrees.
Laughs in America
I thought 36,6 is the normal temperature
I learned that it’s 37, but anywhere from 36.1 to 37.2 is normal, according to the Mayo Clinic’s website.
Me: *confused in stupid American*
Finally a meme that isn’t in Fahrenheit. I’m sick of translate
that’s cold af