{"id":902069,"date":"2026-11-01T11:32:21","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T11:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/902069\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T11:32:21","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T11:32:21","slug":"scientists-think-our-recent-ancestors-may-have-run-hotter-but-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/902069\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists think our recent ancestors may have run hotter &#8212; but why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">1.\u00a0Age: older people run cooler. Our metabolism slows as we age and our body&#8217;s not as active, so uses less energy, says Waleed Javaid, an infectious disease doctor at West Virginia University.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">2.\u00a0Gender: women are warmer than men. Even outside <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/6421622\/\" class=\"LinkUrl-styles__LinkUrlStyled-sc-f4e3b82f-0 eGAhOs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">menstrual cycle spikes<\/a>, in elderly women, body temperatures are higher, says Parsonnet. Scientists don\u2019t really know why this is the case, she adds; &#8220;we just have a different setting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">3. Time of Day: the early morning dip. &#8220;Temperature has <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s11606-018-4610-8\" class=\"LinkUrl-styles__LinkUrlStyled-sc-f4e3b82f-0 eGAhOs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a circadian rhythm<\/a>,&#8221; says rheumatologist Jonathan Hausmann at the Boston Children\u2019s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, who&#8217;s recent study observed a dip from 03:00-05:00 and a peak between 16:00-18:00. Probably reflecting increased activity during the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">4. Height and weight: one lowers, the other raises.\u00a0Body temperature declines with height because more surface area loses more heat, whereas temperature goes up a little bit with weight, explains Parsonnet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1.\u00a0Age: older people run cooler. Our metabolism slows as we age and our body&#8217;s not as active, so&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":902070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-902069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}