SOME key tips and techniques will help keep you cool – literally.
Having a hot drink might just lower your body temperature, according to a home professional.
Nancy Emery, bathroom expert at the UK-based company Soakshared some unconventional tips that work to combat the brutal summer heat.
To stay as cool as possible, she suggests sipping on a hot drink.
“You might think that hot drinks can’t cool you down, but consuming tea or hot water will increase your body temperature, which will make you sweat more,” she said.
“As sweat evaporates, your body cools,” she continued.
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“More sweat means more cooling, which compensates for the small amount of heat contained in a hot drink relative to the entire body.”
You’ll also want to make sure you’re safe while drinking.
Staying hydrated by drinking plenty of water with your hot drink will help replace lost fluids.
Emery shared how the extra sweat produced when drinking hot tea or coffee needs to “evaporate” so you can reap the cooling benefits.
And the more evaporation, the more effective the method becomes.
Another important tip to combat a hot flash is to take a hot shower.
Forget everything you thought you knew about combating higher temperatures.
“There is a common misconception that taking a cold shower will help you cool down,” she said.
“This is actually counterproductive, as when our body is submerged in extremely cold conditions, it tries to regulate our core temperature. This means you may end up feeling warmer than before.”
She explained how a hot bath reduces body temperature, “stimulating the body’s thermoregulatory system.”
“This increases blood circulation throughout the body and results in the removal of body heat and therefore a decrease in body temperature,” she said.
How a hot drink cools you down
The nerves in our tongue and mouth have molecules known as receptors that receive signals from the external nerve, Peter McNaughton, a neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge, said. NPR.
The TRPV1 receptor responds especially to heat.
When consuming something hot, the receptors receive the heat signal that is communicated to the brain, which in turn makes us sweat and activates our “cooling mechanism”.
A hot drink can add heat to the body, but the amount you increase your sweating more than offsets the added heat from the hot fluid, said Ollie Jay, a researcher at the University of Ottawa’s School of Human Kinetics. Smithsonian Magazine.
A greater amount of sweat results in greater overall cooling.
Drinking a hot beverage results in a smaller amount of heat stored in your body, which is beneficial when sweat successfully evaporates, according to a study led by Dr.
She pointed out yet another unconventional tip – regularly cooling your pressure points.
“Pressure points have a lot to do with how the body regulates temperature,” she said.
His technique works at any time of the day or night.
“If you feel hot while you’re at work or when you’re trying to sleep at night, cool your wrists under the tap,” she said.
For faster results, simply run your wrists under cold water for about a minute while rubbing water into the back of your neck.
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