Is the average body temperature of humans changing?
436345
could be. as we are more and more able to effectively control our environment we find the average temp of the world we live in is higher. this will effect our average body temp.\nBut.. the sedentary thing would tend to infer we are cooler now. However, on average.. buggered if I know.\nWould be a good bit of research.\nthe global warming goons would love it!!!!
900006
Unfotunately, those new digital home thermometers are not very accurate.  But, if you stick with the old fashioned glass and mercury ones you will have better luck.  As far as your question goes, everyone's temperature varies.  From person to person and from hour to hour.  Depending on your health, your mood, your time of the month and the time of the day your temperature can vary.  Normal is 98.6 degrees Farenheit.  But, mine varies from 97.5 to 100.0 when I am totally healthy.  And yes, your temperature can drop when you are sick just like it usually rises when you are sick.  Hope that helps.
89461
Yes.\n\nThe body cools itself by evaporation of perspiration from the skin.  In dry air, perspiration evaporates rapidly causing a cooling affect but in humid air, perspiration evaporates less quickly so you don't feel as cool.  You'll feel warmer at the same temperature in a humid climate.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humidity#Effects_on_human_body\n\nIn it's simplest form, the "heat index" attempts to capture this property of perceived temperature by factoring humidity and temperature into a single value.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_index\n\n\nSome of the weather services such as Accuweather have devised ways of expressing the perceived temperature that include multiple factors including: "ambient temperature, wind speed, solar intensity, humidity, precipitation intentisty/type, elevation, and atmospheric pressure".  The purpose of this is to try and include all factors that might affect how we perceive temperature.\nhttp://www.accuweather.com/iwxpage/adc/help/pr_realfeel_pr.htm\nhttp://wwwa.accuweather.com/company.asp?page=about\n\nWeather.com has their "Feels Like" temperature rating which is similar.\n\n\nOf course, there are situations where it is so hot that it doesn't matter about the humidity.
732792
The body is warmer during periods so what you are getting is normal
933316
1 or 2 degrees below normal body temperature (below 37º C or 98.6º F)
368820
changes in air pressure, and temperature at changing locations
1099842
well its not a very long span of time so there will be very very minute changes.. if we remain alive, then i think some of the changes can be:\n1) average height will reduce\n2) we will develop some adaptations in our skin, lungs and eyes to protect ourselves from pollution\nand many other possible changes...\nwe must not say that we wont be alive after 20000 years.... always hope for the best........\nLETS MAKE THIS WORLD A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE
952889
live human is "hot" because of all the 4 processes needed for the body to be alive.\nthe process generate heat as a by product of the reactions occurring .\n\nWhen animals are dead there are no more metabolic reactions to generate the heat so the temperature decreases.
210021
human's body temperature is 37 degrees celsius. below it you feel cold and above it you feel hot. Usually if you're above 37 you have a fever, but they asked if you have a fever then why you chill. Simply because the inner body temperature is above 37 and the outside body temperaute (which is usually the skin)below the inner body heat. So that's the reason why we chill.
981100
no, it wouldn't be easier.  Certain compounds have lower melting points than others.  Lipids for example, if you cool your body down too much become very rigid.  The resulting body temp is actually in a very important lipid range that deals with lipid and membrane fluidity.  Evolution to this is probably the result of species out competing those with lower internal temps.  Besides, our bodies naturally produce a very high amount of heat non-related to cell temperature regulation as a result of moving and living anyways.
650605
At death, the human body is basically the same temperature that it was the instant before (when it was alive).  The body will then acclimate, just like any inanimate object, itself to the surrounding temperature over a period of time.
972059
Temperature change depends on a number of environmental factors - flowing or still, sun exposure, reflective or absorptive bottom, wind, and primarily - size.  Unless it's a very small body (like a backyard fish pond), the thermal mass is so large that you won't see a significant intraday fluctuation, except at the surface.  Even a body as relatively small as a swimming pool doesn't change much in the span of a day.
140386
Hot or cold is relative to your body temperature. Something less will feel blah, cool, or cold depending on how much less. Vice versa for hot. The 'starting point' for hot or cold can be different for each person, or even for the same person, like if you just worked out, everything will seem a little warmer for a while.
872492
You are mistaken.\n\nThe shifting of breath has nothing to do with temprature.\n\nIts absolute normal.Don't worry about that.
527660
our bodies constantly generate a lot of heat because of our metabolism. So we have to constantly lose heat to maintain our normal temperature. \n\nIf you put a bucket of warm water outside, and that warm water just happened to be 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, but the outdoor temperature was 85 degrees Fahrenheit, the water would cool down. That's because the outdoor temperature, while still warm, is cooler than the temperature of the water. Heat naturally flows from warmer places to cooler places. The heat's "goal" is to reach equilibrium–a state where everything is the same temperature as everything that surrounds it. That's why a hot bowl of soup or a cold glass of soda will eventually reach room temperature if you leave them out long enough.\n\nThe difference between you and a bucket of water (well, one of many differences) is that your body is constantly generating more heat. All that heat has to go somewhere, so it tries to escape through your skin. The greater the difference between the outside temperature and the temperature of your body, the faster that heat will escape. That's why you'll feel much cooler on a 60-degree day than on a 90-degree day.
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I hate to disagree with links305, but not everyone runs at 98.6.  98.6 is just considered "normal".  I took care of a gentleman when I was doing home health whose temperature always ran at about 97.9.  When his temp went up to 99 even, it always signalled something was wrong.  Even though 99 is not even considered a temp technically, when his got that high it meant something.\n\nI really can't answer your original question right off the top.  However, there may be something to that.  Since I battled Breast Cancer w/chemo therapy two years ago--It seems like I'm always cold.  Colder than everyone in the room.\n\nSometimes just typing something like "body temperature in Auto Immune diseases" in the search engine will bring up research papers and such with the info.
997521
Not really where you live, but how long you've been there.  Skin conductance plays a big part, as does metabolism.  Indoors/outdoors also plays a factor.  72 degrees is just a median in a range of temperatures from the 100s to the 50s that naked well-fed people could eventually adapt to or feel some degree of comfort in without dying.