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 u...