Whether you enjoy drinking water that is room temperature, cool from the tap, or chock-full of ice cubes, there are few wrong ways to hydrate, experts said. In most cases, it comes down to how you ...

The debate around drinking cold water has sparked curiosity, with some believing it may harm digestion by contracting the stomach. However, there’s no solid evidence to back this up. Both cold ...

We've seen headlines suggesting it could be a health risk. In 2018, for example, Adam Schaub of Texas took to Facebook to caution people about the dangers of drinking cold water during extreme heat.

I knew the 1-10-1 rule for cold water immersion: one minute for cold shock, 10 minutes of usable muscle movement, then one hour before going unconscious from hypothermia.

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Mike Tipton, a cold water expert from the University of Portsmouth in the UK, agrees there is little evidence to support the "positive" impacts of CWI.

Research suggests that drinking cold water can trigger migraines in prone individuals (2001 study) and worsen achalasia symptoms, a condition affecting food passage through the esophagus (2012 study).