I’m going to ask my doctor to prescribe me a hot tub.
I have lower than normal temperature and depression… check-mate?
Ditto. I’m always sitting at 97.1F
People are colder now, looking like maybe around 97.9 average. But you’re still chillier than most.
Repeat after me, correlation is not causation.
What do you mean. The summary and the first paragraph are totally not in contradiction:
People with depression have higher body temperatures, suggesting there could be a mental health benefit to lowering the temperatures of those with the disorder, a new UC San Francisco-led study found.
The study, publishing today in Scientific Reports, doesn’t indicate whether depression raises body temperature or a higher temperature causes depression. It’s also unknown whether the higher body temperature observed in people with depression reflects decreased ability to self-cool, increased generation of heat from metabolic processes or a combination of both.
Anxiety is linked to lowered body temperature via the fight or flight response.
