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A friend of mine, who's Caucasian, was living in Japan and had to go to the hospital once. The doctor asked him what the normal body temperature was for a whit
by hangonhn 11y ago
A friend of mine, who's Caucasian, was living in Japan and had to go to the hospital once. The doctor asked him what the normal body temperature was for a white person. The doctor didn't really believe him when he said it's the same as the Japanese.
- glandium 11y agoThat's because it's not the same. When my japanese wife has the same body temperature as mine, she has a (slight) fever. Edit: Conversely, my body temperature when I have a slight fever would be considered serious.
- greggman 11y agoYou sure that's because she's Japanese? I'm not Japanese and my body temp is lower on average.
- delinka 11y agoSame here. I'm a white dude and normal for me is about one degree (F) below "average" - 97.5
- glandium 11y agoTake it with a grain of salt because this is from a pharmaceutical group, but this page claims the average body temperature of the Japanese was 36.89°C 50 years ago and that it was 36.20°C as of 2009. http://www.sawai.co.jp/kenko-suishinka/illness/200909-02.html http://www.sawai.co.jp/kenko-suishinka/illness/200909-02.htm... Edit: although, that might as well be due to the aging population. That said, I have been told that my average (by France standards) temperature was "a little high".
- song 11y agoI wonder if there's a diet component. When I lived in Japan, after a while my temperature was an average 0.3 degrees lower than it used to be before. It returned back to what it used to be before after leaving Japan and switching to a different diet
- snarfy 11y agoWomen have lower body temperatures. http://io9.com/why-do-womens-bodies-run-colder-than-mens-836827770 http://io9.com/why-do-womens-bodies-run-colder-than-mens-836...
- maaku 11y agoBody temp is a range and everyone is different and there is no discernable difference between Japanese and non-japanese on average.
- deciplex 11y agoBefore drugs developed outside Japan are approved for use in Japan, as part of the approval process they will test the drugs on Japanese using "foreigners" as a control. And it doesn't really matter where the foreigner is from, either. Like you could have a drug developed in Germany and they'll happily grab a random Aussie for the trial. Years ago I knew a guy who made extra money every few months doing this.