The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
he showed that human metabolic rates have absolutely declined over the last 100 years and there's more data over the last 30 years but but even going back 100 years you can see the decline in uh metabolic rate and that is paralleled by a decline in human body temperature
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and I don't think we see humans with 80% declines in their metabolism but we definitely see something happening in humans where by and large like you said John speakman's paper on body temperature decline in the last 100 years our metabolism as a population is going down