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Anyone here prescribe to this?

Apparently the theory is that a hot drink when it's hot raises your internal body temp slightly and your body then overcompensates opening peripheral blood vessels resulting in you cooling down faster. And vice versa with a cold drink.

Personally I think your body is too smart to be fooled like that and I absolutely cannot drink hot stuff when it's hot!!! When people offer me tea and it's above 30 degrees they soon get the hint that they're asking a stupid question.
 
I constantly hear people saying this but I don't feel it is true, group of friends went for breakfast on Sunday, really hot morning, the two people drinking coffee were sweating and the rest were fine
 
ScottulusMaximus said:
Anyone here prescribe to this?

Apparently the theory is that a hot drink when it's hot raises your internal body temp slightly and your body then overcompensates opening peripheral blood vessels resulting in you cooling down faster. And vice versa with a cold drink.

Personally I think your body is too smart to be fooled like that and I absolutely cannot drink hot stuff when it's hot!!! When people offer me tea and it's above 30 degrees they soon get the hint that they're asking a stupid question.
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Ye it is a stupid idea. Your body does not overcompensate, it has a very good real time thermostat. It analyses your body temp in real time and so when your body temp reaches proper levels, it merely stops the overcompensation, it doesn't overshoot the mark like this hypothesis suggests.

Also, in order to cool down, you need to sweat. So you going to have pit stains and all sorts by the time you are done. Rather just down a nice cool glass of water and drop your core body temp that way. As long as you do not down tons of Ice cold water, your body will not try to overcompensate and heat you up any more.

Same with cold. If you are sitting outside in the snow, you are cold because your body is struggling to maintain it's internal body heat along with keeping blood in your extremities. So having a cold drink will merely lower your core temp, making your body restrict bloodflow to extremities even more. Resulting in you feeling even colder. A hot drink will allow your body to distribute this externally sourced heat, to more areas in your body without much more effort.

That is why we sit by a heater when we are cold and an aircon when it is hot. We are augmenting our body's own goal with external heat or cold sources. Pretty simple really.
 
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I call BS. I don't really drink much hot liquids, a few green teas in winter but I drink ice water all year round.
 
ScottulusMaximus said:
Anyone here prescribe to this?

Apparently the theory is that a hot drink when it's hot raises your internal body temp slightly and your body then overcompensates opening peripheral blood vessels resulting in you cooling down faster. And vice versa with a cold drink.

Personally I think your body is too smart to be fooled like that and I absolutely cannot drink hot stuff when it's hot!!! When people offer me tea and it's above 30 degrees they soon get the hint that they're asking a stupid question.
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I find a nice Earl Grey when it's hot helps cool me down. Can't say I agree with the supposed theory, but it works for me.

Cold when it's cold? If it's alcoholic it will warm you up!
 
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