Bikram Yoga

I agree with the first part of that. Unless the sweat is dripping off your body, don't wipe. If it starts pouring into your eyes just dab away the excess.

I disagree with the second part. If I'm already warm, drinking warm liquids makes me warmer. Like right now. I've been drinking hot tea (British style, loose leaf, steeped in a ceramic pot) and I'm starting to sweat. It's 78 F in my house, and I'm about to go nudge the A/C to knock the temp down by a degree or two.

I expected disagreement on the second part. The theory was based on the experience of the British army in India, they found that the Indians ate hot meals on hot days and vice versa.

Your body has automatically switched heating and cooling systems, If you artificially cool your body, it will turn off its cooling system and, if you overdo it, it may turn on it's heating system, the opposite of what you need. Substitute heating for cooling and the same is true for artificially heating your body.

Re : "Effects of Cold Water", from Hoax_Slayers < link :

"The information in this warning message is false."

and , also see the Snopes.com take.

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some types of Tea contains caffeine which will bump up your matabolism causing you to sweat , there are also thousands of other constituents in different teas that have other affects on mind , body and spirit too

i have herbal teas such as calendula and La Pacho that will even make you sweat in Winter.

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Think for a moment. Your claim that "...drinking warm liquids makes me warmer" is not exact. Drinking warm liquids only makes you feel warmer. Temporarily this may add a few insignificant BTUs, but so what? The point is that it brings on the sweating which, in turn, cools you off.

Drinking warm liquid initiates a call for lowering of body temperature and stimulates a change in your metabolism in order to get the job done. Similarly, a warm shower will leave you feeling cooler in hot weather than taking a cold shower.

A warm shower in summer may make you feel a little cooler when you get out, but a cool shower will cool you off and lower your body temperature..

Actually, your comments on the second part are part of the confirmation of what Passington Green wrote.

You do feel warmer - but that does not necessarily mean that your average (or even core) body temperature is higher. But how you feel directly affects your body function. If you feel hot your body will take every action to cool itself down. Covering yourself in sweat is part of the way your body cools itself. Another part is seeking cooler locations (or turning the air conditioning down).

More detail: your cup of tea actually represents a very small amount of additional heat (about 4kJ as you can't drink the tea while it is boiling). However, the path of these fluids directly impacts the body's thermostat, so hot drinks do indeed cause a strong cooling response. (It's just like placing a heater directly under your room thermostat - the thermostat will read hotter so it will switch the system to cool and cause the remainder of the room to cool down.)

There are secondary mechanisms at work too: the chemicals in tea directly stimulate the sweat glands and (normally being a symptom of being hot) sweating makes you feel hot; in addition, warm fluids are absorbed more rapidly than cold, so are good for re-hydration and for replenishing your ability to sweat.

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Passingtogreen-

I discovered years ago that warm drinks go with hot weather and cold drinks (or ice cream) go with cold weather. Many people look at me funny when I order a coffee in the middle of a hot afternoon, but I note that they generally are sweating more and complaining more of the heat...

1.) Your body cools itself by convection. In sweating the evaporation of the sweat helps to lower the body temperature. As much of the heat of the evaporating sweat comes from the body. There is a point if you are someone that sweats too much that it will hinder the bodies ability to regulate temperature. Personally I find it best if I'm going wipe sweat off to do it with a damp cloth. The cloth in damping it will be cooler then your body. In wiping with the damp cloth it will leave some moisture on the surface of the skin to aid in reducing body temperature.

2.) Drinking ice water when trying to warm the body can be counter productive. It depends on the amount consumed.

Who is Bikram Yoga? Is that the little guy in Star Wars?

did you mean seat in stead of sweat?

you know that Yoga should be practiced up to exhaustion ( in my opinion), unless you are talking about something else...

yoga shouldnt be practiced up to exhaustion at all . i understand you're just trying to imply some sexual inuendo but i am going to pretend you were asking a serious question so i can answer as if it was one.

There are dozens of styles and modalities in yoga , but the main focus they have in common is to unify the mind with body and spirit to bring a person to a state of complete understanding of all things.

accurate understanding of themselves , awareness of everything around them , and communion , and integration with the " higher nature of their soul "

some people might refer to " enlightened self " as another description.

i will make one exception here , Pilates yoga is more a form of physical exercise only , that belongs in a gym.

the other forms of yoga which probably all have their roots in Hatha Yoga , are the kinds that may lead to enlightened self as an eventual outcome _ if practiced correctly_

cheers people

( or Namaste to the OP yoga person )

Unless you are a real guzzler, the amount of BTU's added to the body when drinking warm tea or coffee (both of which are normally sipped) is going to be insignificant. What is significant is the effect on internal body temperature sensors, especially the throat and esophagus. When these sense warmer temperatures, they turn up the cooling mechanisms (which include expanding the blood vessels near the skin's surface to allow more flow for heat transfer, and sweating).

The warm shower has a similar effect- the body's temperature sensors control the natural heating and cooling functions...

I don't know about "Bikram Yoga" may be some one who is teaching Yoga in your country.

Yoga is not a physical exercises it is basically meant to control your mind. All the diseases are generated from mind. If you have full control on your mind you will be able to live healthy disease free life.So it is controlling mind through Meditation. Mind is like a unleashed horse running uncontrolled here and there, its thinking power supercedes a super computer.

Paranayams (Breathing Exercises) under expert's advice are also helpful in controlling mind. Parnayams help in supply of oxygen to lungs, heart and other parts of body, oxygen regenerates cells which gives fresh life to your body.

So it is combined effect which helps you to live healthy and as calm person.Practice Yoga along with Paranayams and Meditation feel the difference in your day to day activities.

Being raised on the farm we drank warm liquids in the field and always had hot tea for lunch and supper. Father claimed it turned down his thermostat. When working in the injection molding plant which in summer was very hot I drank hot green tea to keep cool. Two of my engineering friends one from Lebanon and one from Israel asked why I was drinking hot tea and I said to keep cool in the plant. Both stated that they did not know that any one in North America understood this and went on to explain that in their home countries drinking hot drinks on hot day was normal and necessary. I noticed that I perspired a lot less with the hot drink than if I drank cold water from the cooler. Very interesting concept but just try to explain it to those that guzzle cold cola's on a hot day.

Having read all previous comments now, I am compelled to note the following:

Numerous posts attempt to make generalized/blanket statements as though their statement is axiomatic.

Yet none of them even acknowledge that many individuals are *different*. In fact, everyone is different to one degree or another, with respect to certain physiological aspects.

I have had various doctors inform me that "everyone sweats ... some more, some less ... in some, the degree of sweating is only slightly increased by physical activity, and in others it is greatly enhanced by activity..."

A person suffering from Hyperhidrosis will NOT necessarily fall under these "general statements" made elsewhere. And ... lo-and-behold ... many others might have slightly different physiological responses to the intake of either a warm beverage, a hot beverage or a cold beverage, depending on their susceptability to the influence thereof.

What's good for the teacher isn't always good for the student....the proverbial "grain of salt" doth apply.

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do a quick google for " Dosha , Vatta , Pitta , Kapha " and you will find reinforcement of that with further detail.

:)