ARTURO CASADEVALL: What is the temperature susceptibility of fungi?
MOLLY WEBSTER: Like, most fungi don't like it above 86 degrees Fahrenheit.
ARTURO CASADEVALL: And then he looked at the well-known formulas for calorie use. And then he asked the question, if you put these two formulas together, what is the best temperature that keeps out most fungi but doesn't require you to have to eat all the time?
MOLLY WEBSTER: They basically crunched a number that had to do with, like, how many calories you need a day and, like, just, like, the energy that would take of eating and then keeping out pathogens.
ARTURO CASADEVALL: And what he found was that our temperature...
MOLLY WEBSTER: Ninety-eight-point-six.
ARTURO CASADEVALL: ...Is that temperature that best balances protection against the fungi versus the need to eat food. ...
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MOLLY WEBSTER: And so what Arturo did was he got together with this mathematical biologist, Aviv Bergman, and first, they just gathered some numbers.
ARTURO CASADEVALL: What is the temperature susceptibility of fungi?
MOLLY WEBSTER: Like, most fungi don't like it above 86 degrees Fahrenheit.
ARTURO CASADEVALL: And then he looked at the well-known formulas for calorie use. And then he asked the question, if you put these two formulas together, what is the best temperature that keeps out most fungi but doesn't require you to have to eat all the time?
MOLLY WEBSTER: They basically crunched a number that had to do with, like, how many calories you need a day and, like, just, like, the energy that would take of eating and then keeping out pathogens.
ARTURO CASADEVALL: And what he found was that our temperature...
MOLLY WEBSTER: Ninety-eight-point-six.
ARTURO CASADEVALL: ...Is that temperature that best balances protection against the fungi versus the need to eat food.
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