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Health Check: do cold showers cool you down?

  • Written by Yossi Rathner, Lecturer in Human Physiology, Swinburne University of Technology
imageOn a hot day, does taking a cold shower make you cooler?from www.shutterstock.com.au

It’s normal to feel hot, sweaty and uncomfortable in warm weather, but what’s the best way to cool down? To answer this question, we first need to look at how the body maintains stable internal (core) temperature.

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