I find this fascinating.... Stanford researchers' cooling glove
'better than steroids' – and helps solve physiological mystery,
too The temperature-regulation research of Stanford biologists
H. Craig Heller and Dennis Grahn has led to a device that
rapidly cools body temperature, greatly improves exercise
recovery, and could help explain why muscles get tired. By Max
McClure The rapid thermal exchange device, nicknamed 'the
glove,' creates a vacuum to draw blood to the surface of the
palms. Cold circulating water cools the blood, which returns to
the heart and rapidly lowers the body's core temperature. "Equal
to or substantially better than steroids … and it's not
illegal." This is the sort of claim you see in spam email
subject lines, not in discussions of mammalian thermoregulation.
Even the man making the statement, Stanford biology researcher
Dennis Grahn, seems bemused. "We really stumbled on this by
accident," he said. "We wanted to get a model for studying heat
dissipation." But for more than a decade