how come drinking cold water feels refreshing, but cold water on your skin is shocking like a cold shower?

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how come drinking cold water feels refreshing, but cold water on your skin is shocking like a cold shower?

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I’d always seen it as an evolutionary response to drinking out of cold fresh springs or glacial melt run off. Less chance of disease vs warm, stagnant water.

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