Putting aside the fact that this is nonsense garnered from an n=10 study that didn't show this at all, can you imagine? "Sorry I was late, I had to get in my regular 4-hour daily bath. It's for my diabetes"https://twitter.com/MailOnline/status/1063183694452740097 …
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Also, it's nonsense. Study is here: https://www.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/japplphysiol.00407.2018 …
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They compared 10 people who had hot baths each day with 8 matched participants who did not So, no randomization, inadequate control (not having a bath =/= exercising), and a sample size worthy of massive statistical error
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If you wanted to know if bathing for an hour could replace exercise, you'd have to compare the two! This study did not
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I frankly can't be bothered going over all the reasons why this study is unconvincing, but let's just say that 10 people bathing an hour a day over two weeks does not provide very strong evidence of anything, really
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As a statistical foible, I LOVE that the study appears to have calculated Cohen's d for baseline characteristics but not for post-intervention differences
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Oh wait, they calculated it but just didn't put it in the tables? Such an odd way to present data
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Oh, also the intervention seems to increase fasting insulin long-term, which is either a problematic finding or an indication that these results are all just regression to the meanpic.twitter.com/7oZEU0A7yv
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Final thought - love that they released the study ahead of press, but love EVEN MORE that the copy editor decided to leave the tables/figures out in the early release version and put these in insteadpic.twitter.com/K9MdPBSlWK
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