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Immune System & Disease
Why Fever Is Actually Your Body Doing Something Brilliant
Fact 1 of 254%
Your body creates a literal firestorm to cook invading bacteria alive.
Bacteria struggling to survive in high temperatures.
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A fever is not an accident; it is a deliberate metabolic weapon used to incinerate pathogens. Your internal thermostat resets to make the environment hostile for invaders.
"Most human pathogens thrive at exactly 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit."
By raising the heat, your body effectively halts the replication cycle of many common viruses.
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