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Some people drink tea in this heat, here's why it's smart.

 Chemist and explorer Dr. Tim Bond says a hot tea-like beverage can really cool us off during a hot day.




Drinking tea carries a variety of benefits: from reducing the risk of heart disease, lowering blood pressure, strengthening immunity, to helping with weight loss, but it is also often written that hot tea can cool us in the summer, and scientists have checked whether it's a myth or a truth.


Chemist and explorer Dr. Tim Bond says a hot tea-like beverage can really cool us off during a hot day, and that this is the reason he is drinking heavily in India.


Research suggests that under conditions that allow full sweat evaporation the body temperature after consuming hot tea decreases more than after consuming a cold drink, he explained.


One study conducted on a group of heat cyclists found that cold drinking results in less heat and sweat reduction and than a warmer drink. The reason is probably a change in heat sensors in the esophagus and stomach; namely nerves in our mouth and upper digestive tract react to heat, which the sensor in the brain states produces more sweat. As it evaporates, sweat effectively cools us.


But also, you need to know when it's best to drink hot tea instead of a cold brew.


If the percentage of moisture is high, perhaps all sweat will not leave the surface of the skin. If you have too much clothes on or sweat so that sweat from you caps instead of evaporating, then drinking a hot drink isn't a good idea and will serve a cold drink better.


"Tea contains caffeine in levels that improve our cognitive processes, without reducing hydration. Clinical research shows so also that tea offers the same hydrating properties as water and helps in normal hydration equilibrium," Bond concluded, 

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