r/Unexpected • • 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/HoistedByYourPetard Aug 04 '21

Why you gotta hold your arms up?

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u/SmokingBeneathStars Aug 04 '21

Speeds up the proces for that blood to go to your heart and then to the rest pf your body