Body Temperature and Longevity?

[SmilingRawDancer]

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/11/03/bodytemp_hea.html?category=human&guid=20061103163030

I was always under the impression that low body temperature is bad/unhealthy/etc., and I took my temperature last night (when for some reason I felt HOT AS THE HELLFIRES and like I might have a fever), and my temperature was 97.2.
I have no idea how normal/abnormal that is (and I'd love to get everyones take on it..), but I went searching around the internet only to find that longer lifespans are associated with lower body temperature.

Weird.

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[Pierre]

My temperature on raw is about 36 °C, not the usually quoted 36.8. I've had what felt like a fever and found it was only 37. I've misplaced my thermometer, so I can't tell you what it is.

The temperature in the article doesn't make sense; I suspect that someone converted a temperature interval as if it were a temperature. Can you find the research article giving the normal and lowered temperature of the mice?

[SmilingRawDancer]

Whoops, that temperature listed in the article was funky...I've read so many articles about the same thing that I just put one of them up without checking :)

Here's a more detailed version:
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=55790&nfid=rssfeeds

[Elizabeth]

My temperature on raw is about 36 °C, not the usually quoted 36.8. I've had what felt like a fever and found it was only 37. I've misplaced my thermometer, so I can't tell you what it is.

The temperature in the article doesn't make sense; I suspect that someone converted a temperature interval as if it were a temperature. Can you find the research article giving the normal and lowered temperature of the mice?


I think maybe they wrote fahrenheit when they should have written celcius? But it is still messed up because the "lowered" temp. listed is higher than the original?? am i going bonkers??:eek:

here is another article discussing it...

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10437-cool-down--you-may-live-longer.html


my temp. is usually a little lower than 98.6... sometimes I would feel feverish and it would be normal or even below. I do think that eating Raw can lower it, and during the transition it can feel uncomfortable, esp. in the winter..

[zenpawn]

I definitely think a lower core body temperature could be a marker for longevity, if not a cause. It is one of the effects of Calorie Restriction, which has been shown to increase average and maximum lifespan from yeast to worms to fish to, I believe, dogs. Studies are underway with primates and are showing promise, but they live longer than these other species, so the ultimate results are not yet known.

[Pierre]

Here's what happened: The original article states that the temperature was reduced by from 0.3 to 0.5 °C. The people at Discovery converted that to 32.5 to 33 °F. That would be correct if it were a temperature, but it's not. It's a temperature interval. Temperature intervals used to be written as "0.5 C°", but the BIPM decided to change that. Why, I don't know. The same temperature interval could also be written as "0.5 K". They couldn't have meant 33 °C; no eutherian is that cool. (Platypodes are 31-32 °C.)

They want to look for a drug to lower temperature. There's no need; eating raw does it quite well :)

[luckitri]

I come from people whose body temp runs lower along with the blood pressure. We also move and think slower. We have a tendency for longevity but I look to be breaking that. Maybe raw can turn that back around for me.