Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast, where Dr.

Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

I've observed many times where when people get a fever, they automatically want to get rid

of this fear. And that is a big mistake. Now, let's just kind of give you the basics. The

normal temperature of your body should be between 97.8 to 99 degrees Fahrenheit or that's 36.5 degrees

Celsius to 37.2 degrees Celsius. And this can vary a little bit depending on your age, if you're

male or female, etc. Now, babies and children generally have a higher temperature. It's normal

for a newborn baby to have a temperature of 99.5 Fahrenheit or 37.5 Celsius. And as we age,

we actually get cooler. Someone in their 80s could have a temperature of 93.5 degrees Fahrenheit

and be completely normal. The problem with that is when they get a fever, that temperature could

be actually what is normal for someone that is younger. And the purpose of a fever is to

fight pathogens to help you decrease the duration of an infection. So if you instantly go to

ibuprofen and try to break the fever, you're going to end up with the infection a lot longer than

you should. Also, a fever helps mobilize and increase your white blood cells. So it's quite

fascinating. There's many things to do to speed up this cycle of an infection. One is to take the

right nutrients. Now, with children I found, if you've given them calcium like calcium lactate,

it seems to help them overcome an infection very fast. And it's been something that I've recommended

to reduce fevers naturally, which is really just improving their ability to overcome this infection.

And in addition to calcium, trace minerals are really important. And the other thing that's

very important is fasting. Apparently, when you get an infection, you lose your appetite. And you

should just basically go for a period of time without eating because that's going to actually strengthen

your immune system big time. But let's just kind of go through the different age ranges. And when

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