There was a lot of media coverage on the 2020 finding that average body temperature has declined 1.2 degrees F since 1880, probably due to lower inflammation. Somehow though, no one asked the obvious question: wouldn't a higher metabolic rate help keep 19th century people thin?
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If I understand this correctly you are suggesting that people were constantly inflamed due to having to fight of infection and that the widespread use of hand soap stations in hospitals and the like considerably curbed the rate of minor infections?
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itt: ppl can't tell the difference between infection and diet
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(Probably nothing, but nicotine raises body temperature and pot lowers it. They also affect food intake behaviors. Only transiently as far as I know, .. or perhaps as far as anyone knows?)
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Interesting, but probably not consequential here because so few people in the 19th century smoked.
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Antibiotics seems like the obvious contender - maybe agricultural use?
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