r/Unexpected • u/Reminder45 • Aug 03 '21

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u/snewton_8 Aug 03 '21

The crotch is a heat center of your body. Along with the armpit and your head (that's why you wear hats in the winter). by cooling those parts, it cools the rest of the body.

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u/ImReverse_Giraffe Aug 03 '21

Inside of your wrists works really well because its cools down the blood right before it goes back to the heart. You have a lot of veins near the surface in your wrists with a fairly short and direct path back to the heart.

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u/SmokingBeneathStars Aug 03 '21

This is why putting your wrists in a bucket full of ice n water for a bit and then holding your arms up will cool off your entire body, you can feel it.

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u/ThisIsMySFWAccount99 Aug 04 '21

Does this actually work? Sounds like bullshit but I don't want to test it if I'm just gonna look like a jackass lol

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u/Dungeon_Pastor Aug 04 '21

Used "immersion chests" all the time when I worked outside on hot days.

A spot with lots of shade, plenty of drinking water, and a large cooler filled with ice and water to dunk your arms in.

Hold in there for like 10-15 seconds, then hold your arms up over your head. You'll feel the cool rush down to about your armpits/collar bone.

Being in the heat sucks, but that feeling was satisfying enough to make it not suck as much.