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What Does Mayo Clinic Say About Red Light Therapy?
What Does Mayo Clinic Say About Red Light Therapy? What does Mayo Clinic say about red light therapy? In a Mayo Clinic Minute from April 2024, dermatologist Dr Dawn Davis said red light can sometimes help with acne and photoaging, because it can have anti-oxidative or oxidative properties on the skin. She also warned that […]
Is Creatine Good for Your Hair?
Is creatine good for your hair? No study has shown that it is. Nobody has found that creatine makes hair thicker, fuller or faster growing, and there is no mechanism anyone has demonstrated by which it would. The question is still worth asking properly, because it usually comes from the opposite fear, that creatine might […]
Can Stopping Creatine Reverse Hair Loss?
You start creatine, your training improves, and a few months later you notice more hair in the shower drain. The forums have a ready-made explanation: creatine raises DHT, DHT shrinks hair follicles, so stopping creatine should reverse the damage. It is a neat story, and it is mostly wrong. The honest answer to the question […]
Which Magnesium Is Best for Insomnia?
Walk into any supplement shop and the magnesium shelf reads like a personality test. Glycinate for sleep, citrate for digestion, oxide for the budget conscious, threonate for the brain. The labels promise calm nights and deeper rest, and the internet has already picked a winner: glycinate, usually, by a wide margin. The trials tell a […]
What Do 15 Minutes in a Sauna Do?
Fifteen minutes in a sauna does a surprising amount, and also less than the headlines promise. In one session your heart rate climbs into the range of moderate exercise, your skin temperature rises to about 104 degrees Fahrenheit, and you can sweat close to a pint. Your blood pressure typically dips afterwards, and your arteries […]
How Long Should I Go in the Sauna for Recovery?
How long should I go in the sauna? Ten to 20 minutes after training is the honest default for most people. That range is where the trials cluster, and it is also the safety ceiling in the standard guidance: Harvard Health advises staying in no more than 15 to 20 minutes. But the honest answer […]
Are Ice Baths Better Than Cold Showers?
Ice baths vs cold showers? Yes, for recovery after hard training. No, for building a daily habit you will actually keep. Ice baths deliver a stronger and better studied cold stimulus: full body immersion in water at 10 to 15 degrees for 10 to 15 minutes reliably eases muscle soreness for up to four days. […]
What Happens After 30 Days of Cold Showers?
What happens after 30 days of cold showers? The short answer is that the shock gets much easier, mornings feel more alert, and most people want to keep going. The one randomised trial that tested exactly this protocol, in 3,018 Dutch adults, found 29 percent fewer self reported sick days from work, but no fewer […]
Is a Cold Shower as Effective as a Cold Plunge?
Is a cold shower as effective as a cold plunge? For post exercise recovery, no, not on the current evidence. A cold plunge gives a larger, colder, more controlled dose to the whole body at once, and the recovery evidence we have is almost entirely immersion evidence. A cold shower is still a real cold […]
What Are the Potential Side Effects of Creatine for Women?
What are the potential side effects of creatine for women? For most healthy women at standard doses, the likely effects are mild and short lived: gut discomfort, especially after a large single dose, and a small rise in scale weight from water stored inside muscle. The effects many women worry about most, kidney damage and […]