Maximize Performance, Concentration, and Safety The Human Head is Responsible for 60% of the Body's Cooling and Warming
The Competitive Edge in the Heat ®
Long Before Your Personnel Experience Heat Stroke, Their Performance and Health Suffer From Heat Exposure
Professional Helmet Cooling for Racing
Wearing Multiple-Layer NOMEX Pit Crew Suits, Protective Gloves, and the Helmet Seriously Impedes the Body's Cooling Functions
GelCool Systems Professional-Grade Cooling Gel Packs have been tested and certified for use in the NFL, so they are extremely rugged. Designed to withstand NFL required testing of over 300G impacts, these medical-grade urethane packs are specifically manufactured for use in helmets. Their patent-pending self-sizing design allows comfortable use in most helmets.
While most driver's helmets fit too closely to allow space for a GelCool gel pack, many pit crew and other team member helmets have space, allowing team members to stay cooler, perform better, maintain greater concentration, and remain safer overall.
GelCool Systems Pro Racing Group includes former drivers, pit crew, and logistics personnel. We understand the challenges and logisitics of auto racing.
Please give us a call to learn more about our products and visit our online store to see the systems which are available for purchase now.
GelCool Systems Advanced Cooling Gel Packs
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Our Active Ingredient is Non-Toxic and Non-Caustic
GelCool Systems uses propylene glycol, which is a common food additive (not Ethylene Glycol, which is found in anti-freeze). Propylene glycol is used in sour cream, ice cream, facial soaps, candies and more.
Click here for Dow Chemical's product description. To download the MSDS for our gel please click here (1.8 Mb PDF file). .
GelCool Systems Overview of Head Cooling Physiology
1. Increased metabolic activity from exertion creates excess body heat.
2. Protective clothing inhibits the body’s ability to dissipate the excess heat.
3. GelCool Gel Packs cool cranial blood via thermal induction: blood carried throughout peripheral cranial vessels becomes cooler as gel packs absorb heat while cooling the cranium.
4. With cooler blood circulating, metabolic activity is reduced(1) and brain function improved.
5. Reduced metabolic activity allows the body to slow vital organ activity (heart, lungs).(1)
6. Perspiration is reduced since the need to dissipate excess heat has fallen(1).
7. Reduced perspiration leads to reduced loss of electrolytes, which improves endurance.
8. Pulmonary function is eased, allowing greater oxygenation of the brain and muscles.
(1) Reduction in metabolic/vital organ activity and perspiration are only possible if the body's thermoregulatory systems determine that overall body temperature is within a safe range.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
The use of GelCool Systems Cooling Products is Only One Part of An Overall Heat Safety Program Which Must Include Proper Hydration. Please Read Our Entire Disclaimer.
GelCool Systems Has Applied for Trademarks for the Logos and Names Used in this Website. GelCool Systems Has Applied for Patents for The Products Listed on this Website.
GelCool Systems Does Not Represent That The Use of These Products Will Eliminate All Risk of Heat Illness or Related Illnesses. It Remains The Responsibility of the User to Determine Whether Conditions Are Safe for Physical Exertion. Some Environments Are Unsafe (Too Hot and/or Humid for the Given Level of Physical Exertion in Warm Weather, or Too Cold in Cold Weather) Regardless of the Methods Used to Mitigate the Heat Risk (Such as the Use of GelCool Systems Products). ThereforeGelCool Systems Assumes No Responsibility for any Injury Suffered While Using Our Products. GelCool Systems, Inc. Products are NOT Designed to Protect from Physical Shock, Trauma or Blows to the Head. The ONLY Recommended Use of Our Products is to Provide Cooling (or Winter Warming) to the User's Head.
The Use of GelCool Systems' Products is Only One Part of An Overall Thermal Safety Program Which Must Include Proper Hydration, Core Body Temperature Management, and Appropriate Levels of Physical Exertion.
