User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Hunter Theory... Blog/@comment-5089728-20120927030933/@comment-125.165.93.249-20121029044333

Ever drink a hot ginger ale? Or cold peppermint frappucino?

Hot drinks are probably mead (honey-based alcoholic drink) that's infused with spices that enhances heat production, i.e pepper, chili (the recipes...) while cold drink is the opposite: it lowers your heat production, thus the body would need an external heat source to function well. Most likely the indegrients involves something that supress your HRC (heat regulation center, preoptic area of hypo) thus leading body to think that you have enough heat to function while you're not, yet in the same time locking the shivering point (posterior hypo) to prevent energy loss.