Why do cold drinks cool you down and hot drink warm you up? What is actually happening when these drinks are consumed?

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Title says it all. Just curious

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So, everything likes to be as warm as what’s around it. So when you drink something warm or cold, your body tries to match that temperature.

Thing is, heat doesn’t come from nowhere, it has to come from something that’s already warm. So, the colder thing borrows heat from the warmer thing to catch up.

So when you drink something hot, your body takes heat from the drink, which makes the drink colder and your body warmer until their temperatures match. In the same way, when you drink something cold, the drink takes heat from your body to warm itself up, cooling your body and warming the drink.