“I can’t do this,” the woman in her 60s said as she lowered herself into the 40° Celsius water that filled a big silver tub at the end of a dimly lit room in the University of Ottawa’s Human and Environmental Physiology Research Unit. It was only after the temperature dropped a degree that she immersed herself, shoulder-deep, for the next two hours.
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