Does Hot Yoga Increase Blood Oxygen? | Hot Yoga Benefits - Video

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One of the health benefits Bikram and Hot Yoga devotees claim is that hot yoga increases oxygen in the blood and the poses constrict then release blood flow in the body like opening and closing a tourniquet. Supposedly is to super-charge with fresh oxygen rich blood. It’s also utter nonsense. In the first place, most studies find that VO2 max, the maximum amount of oxygen the body can use, goes down during exercise in hot environments.

If anyone can recommend studies on the 'Tourniquet Effect' as described in Hot Yoga please comment with a link. I really would like to see if this has been tested.

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Cited:
Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on Military Nutrition Research; Marriott BM, editor. Nutritional Needs in Hot Environments: Applications for Military Personnel in Field Operations. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 1993. 3, Physiological Responses to Exercise in the Heat. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK236240/