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Here's how your body cools itself: blood carries heat from your core to your skin, and sweat evaporates, carrying it away.

When it's too hot or too humid, that system falls behind. Heat builds up faster than your body can release it, your core temperature climbs, your heart rate follows, and a pace that should feel easy starts to feel much more challenging. 

Here are a few ways to help your body release heat faster.

The Ice Bandana: Simple, and it works

Fill the zippered pouch with ice, tie it around your neck, and keep moving. The neck carries major blood vessels close to the surface, so cooling there lowers how hot you feel faster than almost anywhere else on the body. The slow trickle of meltwater down your back doesn't hurt either.

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NEW  The Feed Ice Hat: Cools from the crown down

Fill the crown with ice, cinch it down, go. Your scalp heats up fast, and direct cold contact up top cools you quicker than you'd expect. I fill mine while it's already on my head, but you can flip it upside down to load it first. Comes in Feed Blue or White.

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Apex Cool Labs (The Narwhals): Cool down without freezing up

No water to mix, no towel to wring. Just two packs that stay refreshingly cool at 50-60°F for over two hours. At that “cold, but not too cold” temperature, blood vessels won’t constrict, so the heat transferring process won’t shut off. Heat pipes within the packs contain 100x the thermal conductivity of copper and pull heat away instead of letting it build up. Freeze overnight, fill with room-temp water, and it's ready in under a minute.

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Omius Headband: Sweat in, heat out

Twenty graphite tiles sit in a silicone grid, absorbing sweat or water and creating about 5x more surface area for evaporation. As that water evaporates, the graphite tiles draw heat directly from your skin. As long as the tiles stay wet and air keeps moving, it keeps cooling. 

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CoolMitt: Cooling through the palm

Your palm is one of the few places on your body with blood vessels designed to release heat quickly, they're called AVAs. CoolMitt circulates water across the palm at exactly 12°C: cold enough to pull heat out fast, but not so cold that your blood vessels clamp shut and stop the whole process. That's the flaw with ice baths and ice cubes. Two or three minutes between intervals, or 15-30 minutes post-workout, is enough to feel it.

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