I’ve heard that taking a hot bath can lower your blood sugar. This sounds too good to be true. Is it?
A study from the UK published in October 2018 found that soaking in a hot bath for an hour lowered blood sugar levels and limited inflammation in 10 sedentary, overweight men who were unable to exercise. The soaking also promoted release of a substance that lowers blood pressure. The researchers, at Loughborough University, compared these changes to those in eight sedentary men of similar size who acted as controls and rested instead of sitting in a bath.
