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Today, you'll learn about the link between body temperature and depression, how taking the polar bear plunge could soothe symptoms

of menopause, and a new sticker that can detect organ failure.

Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.

A new study has found a significant link between body temperature and depression.

Okay, I have to process that for a second because the implications

seem really big. Would that mean that you could take somebody's temperature and assess their

emotional health? That's a great question. So in short, not exactly. This finding won't likely

lead to more diagnostic tools, but it could be a really interesting new tool

in the treatment of depression. So let's talk about the study because it was huge. Okay, that's good.

A huge study simply did a better result, right? Yes, and this one looked at data from more than

20,000 people who tracked their body temperatures and their symptoms of depression every day for about

seven months. The study spanned 106 countries, so it was really a massive, diverse undertaking.

And the key finding was that as the severity of depression symptoms increased, so did body

temperature. Wow. So the implication is that somehow one thing is connected to the other?

That's right. To add an extra little twist, they also found a trend indicating that people

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