Avoid These Pitfalls for a Refreshing Summer Boost

[Article déjà publié le 24  juin 2024]

Thermoregulation, which allows the metabolism to keep a stable temperature enters the process of reflection that must be had vis-à-vis hydration.

Find the freshness on the return of sunny days: what are the tips that work?

The return of sunny days is largely synonymous with the return of the sun, activities, outdoor lunches … and temperatures that climb. This last week of June, they will sometimes even reach double those who followed one another last week: Paris, Strasbourg and Angers among others will see Mercury approach 30 ° C in the middle of the week.

The trend will therefore go to the refreshment once the sunbath is over. To do this, all means are good. Refreshing cushion for more comfortable nights, fan in the living room, fogger. So many tips that allow immediate and lasting comfort.

Prefer lukewarm showers to shower

Among all these ingeniosities inspired by the desire to flee heat, cold showers are also regularly invoked to cool off. However, this is an error. The cold water jet would only allow furtive comfort.

“” “Man is an animal homeotherm. When it is cold, it produces heat internally and externally. When it is hot, it transpires to evacuate the heat”Explain to the HuffPost Brigitte Tregouet, general practitioner.

The more cold water in contact with water, the more it will be used to produce heat. A gesture therefore counterproductive, which risks increasing the printing of heat as soon as the shower is leaving. According to Brigitte Tregouet, it is better to take a lukewarm shower, since when the water will evaporate, “This causes cold, it refreshes and decreases body temperature”.

Cold drinks and thermoregulation

In the same way, drinking water or a very cool drink can have effects contrary to those expected. In terms of metabolism, cold water will require a lot of energy for the body to agree at body temperature.

This process, called thermoregulation is done via the hypothalamus, which “Receives information on cerebral, cutaneous temperature, and blood temperature thanks to thermoreceptors, located in the skin, brain and blood vessels”, According to an article in the French Society of Dermatology. This phenomenon comes independently of the temperature of the ambient environment.

So, “Drinking a hot drink will help the body regulate by causing hypersudation ” Explain to Actu the dietitian nutritionist Florence Foucaut. Be careful, however, not to consume too much tea or coffee that is diuretics, so stimulate urinary secretion.