User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Hunter Theory... Blog/@comment-5089728-20120927030933/@comment-5089728-20120928020037

But think about it, there's gotta be something else. You cant just drink cold liquid, be able to go feet from lava, and expect that the only bad thing that's going to happen is you get your feet hurt. (Even THAT does an annoying amount of damage.)

I'm going to take a quote from Democide in the comment below: "A hunter has the heat protection of his/her armor" That is true....for males, at least. Female armor usually shows more skin than is practical for safety. So to keep cool, they take a Cold Drink. If the drinks were was some cold liquid, it would only provide a very mild cooling sensation for a few seconds and then the feeling would be lost to the stomach. What the hunters are taking is has got to be something capable of entering the bloodstream (like a chemical or drug) and activating sort of like a foot warmer (or cooler), yet without killing the hunter.