The increasingly cold human body?

Jean-François Cliche Le SoleilIn the 19th century, thermometers indicated 37°C. Nowadays, we are more around 36.6°C. So why is the human body getting cold?Share CHRONICLE / Thirty-seven degrees Celsius, the average temperature of the human body. Not 36, not 38, but 37. In biology textbooks, this number had for a long time practically the same status as a mathematical constant: precise, universal, immutable. Except that, precisely, we now realize that this famous temperature that we thought was more or less “eternal” has been falling little by little for 200 years – and we don’t really know why…