A recent article in the US was published in the Journal of Athletic Training, and showed that by cooling the neck (in cooling collars) runners within an environmental heat chamber did not register the fact that their bodies were getting hotter. The Roehampton lecturer in exercise physiology who conducted the study figures that the carotid artery of the neck is chilled, which tricks the brain into feeling cooler than the body actually is, although our question would be how safe and sensible fooling the brain really is?!
The Robert Tisserand Wheat Cooling CollarWe at SPACE would tend to agree with a recent piece in the NY Times ( http://nyti.ms/iXAzBI) which offers up the sage advice "concentrate on staying healthy" and acclimate to increasing temperatures slowly. Of course with a Scottish summer you may argue that there is little point due to the brevity of our summer, but we woudl still like to advise agaist heat illness and exertional distress!
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