Hot tub health kick: why a long bath is almost as good for you as a long run

[Northerner]

Name: Hot baths.

Age: First used by the ancient Egyptians 4,000 years ago.

Appearance: A large thermoformed acrylic receptacle – or stone, if you’re an ancient Egyptian – filled with warm water.

Thank you for explaining what a bath looks like. I know. This is my job. You’re welcome.

More pertinently, why are you explaining baths? Oh, that’s easy. Because having a hot bath is exactly the same as doing exercise.

I mean, clearly it isn’t. Yes it is! The University of Coventry did a study, and discovered that having a bath is exactly the same as doing exercise.

Rubbish. Well, not quite. It found that hot baths can bring about certain similar health benefits to those of aerobic exercise. Heat therapies, including time in a hot tub, can raise core body temperature and improve blood flow, which can lower blood pressure, control blood sugar and reduce inflammation.

Hot tub health kick: why a long bath is almost as good for you as a long run

Researchers have discovered that prolonged immersion in a piping hot bath has many of the same medical benefits as aerobic exercise

www.theguardian.com

I could probably run a marathon in the time it takes to fill my bath! 😱 🙂

 

[Robin]

I seem to remember a couple of years ago on Trust me I’m a Doctor they discovered that having a hot bath lowered your blood sugar as much as going for a run (one of those very unscientific experiments where they divide a load of random people into groups, but maybe the findings spurred on some proper research)

 

[trophywench]

Well we no longer own a bath in the bathroom - but do have a hot tub in the back garden. Assuming we'd cleaned it out and rehomed the snails etc, if we turned the hosepipe on tomorrow morning it would fill before lunch, so we could turn the heating on then and may be able to go in it about 8 to 9pm tomorrow night. But I can only do 20 mins max - cos if I stay in there any longer I'll be hypo! The thing to do of course is just keep it full and switched on and adjust the water Ph with chemicals. Cost of elec is around a £1 a day ........

Not a cheap luxury.

 

[Deleted member 21371]

Well we no longer own a bath in the bathroom - but do have a hot tub in the back garden. Assuming we'd cleaned it out and rehomed the snails etc, if we turned the hosepipe on tomorrow morning it would fill before lunch, so we could turn the heating on then and may be able to go in it about 8 to 9pm tomorrow night. But I can only do 20 mins max - cos if I stay in there any longer I'll be hypo! The thing to do of course is just keep it full and switched on and adjust the water Ph with chemicals. Cost of elec is around a £1 a day ........

Not a cheap luxury.

My weekend job is setting ours up.
It's a good luxury

 

[SB2015]

Well we no longer own a bath in the bathroom - but do have a hot tub in the back garden. Assuming we'd cleaned it out and rehomed the snails etc, if we turned the hosepipe on tomorrow morning it would fill before lunch, so we could turn the heating on then and may be able to go in it about 8 to 9pm tomorrow night. But I can only do 20 mins max - cos if I stay in there any longer I'll be hypo! The thing to do of course is just keep it full and switched on and adjust the water Ph with chemicals. Cost of elec is around a £1 a day ........

Not a cheap luxury.

And keep a stock of Jelly babies by the pool, so you can stay in longer

 

[SB2015]

I seem to remember a couple of years ago on Trust me I’m a Doctor they discovered that having a hot bath lowered your blood sugar as much as going for a run (one of those very unscientific experiments where they divide a load of random people into groups, but maybe the findings spurred on some proper research)

I am happy to do the experiment often. I love a good soak, and now take my pump off so any possible hypo is countered by the absence of basal insulin. A pump perk.

 

[trophywench]

No option but remove it with my pumps as none of em have been waterproof.

 

[mikeyB]

I can’t go for a run- walking is a joke. I don’t possess a bath, I couldn’t get out without help.

Conclusion? I’m well and truly knackered. 🙂