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This has come up for years. In some circumstances you will be cooler, if the humidity is high you’re fucked. Hot and dry, sweat more, hot and wet, heat stroke.

Their answer, in short: Yes, a hot drink can cool you down, but only in specific circumstances. “If you drink a hot drink, it does result in a lower amount of heat stored inside your body, provided the additional sweat that’s produced when you drink the hot drink can evaporate,” Jay says.

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Thank heavens somebody understands the laws of thermodynamics.

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So a cool drink would work just as well, since it’s also providing water you can sweat out?

So it’s a matter of hydration?

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I haven’t read the article, but I think the difference in temperature matters. Hot beverages perceived as hot through your tongue will make you sweat more/faster than cold beverages.

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Yeah, this. Hot drinks make you sweat from feeling hotter internally, which will cool you off if it’s not humid where you are.

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Ah, thanks, I didn’t catch that part.

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Maybe because it reminds you there are still things hotter than the weather :)))

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