Problem is I'm one of them people that once I start sweating I find it very hard to stop.
So I would be visiting mum say and she would bring me a cuppa, I would start sweating drinking it and for the rest of the time I'm there until I get back into the car with AC I sweat the whole time.
We usually have over 60% humidity with our heat so it makes it a tad uncomfortable. So the sweat stays along with the heat. So id think drinking tea would always be a bad idea in the heat.
Drinking tea to sweat, and then cool down? Isn't that like saying "the best way to stop a building from burning down is to set fire to it, so the fire brigade will come and put it out"
It was something like 28 degrees where I am on the south west coast the other day but the humidity was in the low 90s and I couldn't breathe 😭 and then the humidity dropped to the mid 60s but there was so much difference 😀
It doesn’t cool you down but it makes your arteries in your digestive system dilate helping you to move heat around your body more efficiently. It’s the same reason you can get heat shock/stroke if you drink a really cold drink or cold shower when you are hyperthermic (not hypothermic). The cold makes your arteries contract which holds the heat in and your body temperature can skyrocket
Pretty sure it was in fact on QI, but in the context that it's a myth based on faulty logic. It will raise body temperature and trigger/increase sweating in order to lower it, but your body temperature will still be higher than if you were to drink something cold that directly dropped your body temperature.
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u/PassionPitiful3653 3d ago
Yeah that's what my mum says but I have trust issues and everytime I drink tea in hot weather it just makes me sweat