Fiddling
The kid started swimming lessons again.
He seems to be enjoying himself.
While he’s doing great, I’ve been sick lately.
Spent most of the week in bed but one thing I had to do was crack open my computer because it was randomly shutting down.
Figured the CPU was overheating so I slapped on a Noctua heatsink and fan, which seems to have fixed the problem.
Speaking of overheating, evidently, the idea that humans are, on average 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit is a relatively modern conclusion.
The very latest health research seems to indicate that the new average is about a degree cooler at between 97.5 and 97.9 degrees Fahrenheit.
At least since 2019, I’ve been averaging about 97.3 degrees but lately, I’ve been drifting even lower – above is what it was this morning.
There seems to be two major theories for this:
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- People are larger now, which generally results in lower body temperature, and/or
- People are just less chronically inflamed.
Can’t speak for the world-at-large but I gotta think that my lower temps are because I’ve lowered my overall inflammation since I wasn’t super big to begin with.
When Alison first got sick, I did a baseline reading for myself and found that I was consistently around 97.9 degrees but, since her illness, I spent a good amount of time and energy trying to reduce my inflammation overall, resulting in temps I wrote above.
This past week, I’ve been ridonk sick with some weird cold. Mainly fatigue and coughing but my temps maxed out at 99.6 degrees.
Kept wondering if I had a fever.
Technically speaking, a fever is anything above 100.4 degree Fahrenheit.
But the question is is, if I’m a full degree lower than normal, is a fever now something above 99.4 degrees?
In any case, I’m better today; the last four days were spent in bed but today I felt well enough to cook for the kid – the Firecracker spent most of the week cooking for him.
As the years go on, more and more people ask me how I stay so young looking.
Obviously, genetics have a lot to do with it. So does the fact that I’ve been on a diet for 36+ years.
But, in terms of recent changes I’ve made, that’s all been focused on my reducing my systemic inflammation to try and combat cancer.
The unexpected benefit is that I think I’m literally slowing down my aging even more.
In any case, reducing my inflammation means:
- Taking a shit-ton of turmeric, with a dash of oil and black pepper, on a daily basis.
- Taking some spirulina for additional protein as well as for its anti-inflammatory benefits.
- Intermittent fasting.
- Drinking a liter of green tea (or more) a day.
- Eating fatty fish and berries on a weekly basis, albeit not at the same time (gross).
- Eating nuts and legumes every day – most days, I have nuts for both brekkie and lunch.
- Hitting the gym more days than I don’t.
Just like my computer shutting down when it overheated, I think that people don’t realize just how damaging being inflamed – thus, over-heated – is for their overall health.
These are the kinda things I think about when I’m sick.
Her: How’s the patient?
Me: Blargh.
Her: Are you resting? No computer fiddling?
Me: There might be some fiddling going on.
Location: home, making a rasher of bacon because I’m cranky and it’s easy
Mood: see above
Music: they always say, “Don’t it always seem to go'” (Spotify)
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