The Surprising Truth Behind How Hot Drinks Affect Your Body Temperature Revealed!
Ever found yourself sweltering in the summer heat, ice water in hand, yet secretly envying someone calmly sipping a steaming cup of tea? Sounds like madness, right? But here’s the kicker—turns out, gulping down a hot drink on a blazing day might just be your body’s sneaky secret weapon against the heat. How could sipping something scalding possibly cool you off faster than that frosty glass of ice water? Well, it all boils down to sweat… and lots of it. Dive in as we unravel this counterintuitive heat hack and uncover why those July coffee lovers might actually be onto something. LEARN MORE.
by James Hunt
When it’s hot outside, few things are more refreshing than an ice-cold beverage—unless you’re one of those folks who swears the best way to cool down on a sultry day is to drink a steaming cup of tea.
Common sense suggests that ice water would be the better option. Getting a near-freezing cold beverage into your body should lower your core temperature and offer temporary respite from the blazing heat around you, right?
How Hot Drinks Can Cool You Down
That’s not exactly how the human body reacts to heat. A 2012 study from the University of Ottawa had cyclists drink water at different temperatures while they cruised at moderate speed, and then measured their core body temps. Researchers found that drinking the hot beverage triggered a disproportionately high sweat response without significantly raising the athletes’ core temperature. And since sweating is the body’s primary way of cooling itself, the results showed that a hot drink is actually better at cooling you down than a cold one.
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