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Terry_M

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7. not as simple as temperatures are dropping

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Sun Mar 15, 2020, 12:59 PM

Mar 2020

there was an explanation on a podcast, either Science Friday or something else I listen to.
The suspicion is that the average person (when measuring the temperature of thousands of people who don't have any visible flu symptoms) had somewhat more inflammation in their body 100 years ago than the average person would today.

So not really that your body, when 100% healthy is colder now than it was before but that it was more likely that aside from the flu, other reasons for some amount of inflammation would have been more common while outward appearances were 'normal'.

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