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Women with natural menstrual cycles have a 0.2-0.5 °C higher body temperature after their ovulation because of the higher progesterone level in their blood. The
by WA 4y ago
Women with natural menstrual cycles have a 0.2-0.5 °C higher body temperature after their ovulation because of the higher progesterone level in their blood. They literally don’t have a single "correct" body temperature.
It’s not mentioned in the article, which I find odd, because it tells you something about averaging statistics and male body bias in science.
- Moru 4y agoA lot of it is chosen male because female body is more complicated in some ways. We are just figuring things out with statistics and some things will be wrong if we cut out 50% of the population. Sience is starting to wake up to this though, but slowly.