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First up, from the Tour de France, our favorite real-world rou- laboratory where so much interesting stuff happens, is Team Ineos, before the team time trial, had a video of all of the riders on their time trial bikes warming up, and they do pretty intense warmups, with gauze stuck up their nose.

I, I don't know what was on that.

Do you have any idea?

I actually didn't notice the nose gauze.

Yeah.

I assume it was menthol or something like that, something-

Oh, interesting

... to just get going.

[laughs]

Or they're just, uh, like sanitizing their new nose rings.

Yeah, that's true.

Maybe that's what it is.

[laughs]

That's true.

Or it could be, like, smelling salts for all we know.

The Tour de France is wild.

Uh, but then they had their arms up to the forearm in Tupperwares full of ice water.

So this really brought the science of arm cooling to the masses.

And they were just not even cracking a smile.

They were super serious with their arms in there warming up, and I love it because there's been a lot of science on hand cooling.

Yeah.

There's been, like, a famous glove that was started at Stanford to think about hand cooling and dropping core body temperature, and I love that Ineos was like, "Nah, we're gonna use Tupperware."

Yeah.

Seems like a good way to do it.

So there was a 2012 study out of Stanford that found hand cooling was a really efficient way to reduce core body temp.