I read recently that body temperature has been dropping [View all]

from the "usual" 98.6.

In the past days I have been checking mine, on a digital thermometer and it has been 96.8 even 95..

(Several days ago, late at night, after reading too many posts here I felt pressure in my chest. So have been checking my temp. A good night sleep, though, took care of this)

On edit: found it

Our average body temperatures seem to be dropping

https://www.popsci.com/story/health/body-temperature-dropping-history/

One new study from Stanford University researchers finds that we seem to be colder, on average, than our forebears. The difference they detected isn’t huge—between 1.06 degrees Fahrenheit lower, on average, for men born today compared to those born in the early 1800s, and 0.58 degrees Fahrenheit for women born today compared to those born around 1890—but it adds to a growing body of evidence that body temperature is a lot more flexible than previously thought.

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She and her colleagues think the changing temperatures are explained by changing human physiology. After all, she says, the lives of Americans in 2020 are very different than those that Union Army veterans were living more than a century ago. Our microbiomes are probably different, thanks to what we eat and what we’re exposed to, and the amount of exercise people get in everyday life is different, too—and those are just two of many factors that may affect metabolism, which is directly connected to body temperature.