ArticleInternational journal of yoga
Cardiovascular, Cellular, and Neural Adaptations to Hot Yoga versus Normal-Temperature Yoga.
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- Hot Yoga: A Systematic Review of the Physiological, Functional and Psychological Responses and Adaptations.Sports medicine - open · 2025Pooled it
- Contributions of yoga and aerobic exercise to acute changes in state affect, circulating BDNF and eCB concentrations, and memory.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2026Trial
- Six Months of Bikram Yoga: Longitudinal Effects on Body Fat Reduction and Age-Related Responses in Adult Women.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Demographics, facilitators, and barriers among predominantly heated yoga users: a survey of the largest U.S. yoga studio brand.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Yoga Meets Intelligent Internet of Things: Recent Challenges and Future Directions.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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Abstract
contextChronic heat exposure promotes cardiovascular and cellular adaptations, improving an organism's ability to tolerate subsequent stressors. Heat exposure may also promote neural adaptations and alter the neural-hormonal stress response. Hot-temperature yoga (HY) combines mind-body exercise with heat exposure. The added heat component in HY may induce cardiovascular and cellular changes, along with neural benefits and modulation of stress hormones.
aimsThe purpose of the present study is to compare the cardiovascular, cellular heat shock protein 70 (HSP70), neural, and hormonal adaptations of HY versus normal-temperature yoga (NY). SETTINGS AND
designTwenty-two subjects (males = 11 and females = 11, 26 ± 6 years) completed 4 weeks of NY ( SUBJECTS AND
methodsPre- and posttesting included (1) hemodynamic measures during a heat tolerance test and maximal aerobic fitness test; (2) neural and hormonal adaptations using serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), along with a mental stress questionnaire; and (3) cellular adaptations (HSP70) in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs). STATISTICAL ANALYSIS: Within- and between-group Student's
resultsMaximal aerobic fitness increased in the HY group only. No evidence of heat acclimation or change in mental stress was observed. Serum BDNF significantly increased in yoga groups combined. Analysis of HSP70 suggested higher expression of HSP70 in the HY group only.
conclusionsTwelve sessions of HY promoted cardiovascular fitness and cellular thermotolerance adaptations. Serum BDNF increased in response to yoga (NY + HY) and appeared to not be temperature dependent.
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