Researcher & Senior Lecturer at the University of @Otago 🔥❄️💦🏃🏽♀️🏔❤️💉 Extreme Environments for Health & Performance Lab
Dunedin, New Zealand
Joined August 2015
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Fasting for 20 h does not affect exercise-induced increases in circulating BDNF in humans 🧠
@otago @UBC_HES @JPhysiol
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🛁♨️Hemodynamic and Vascular Effects of Different Durations of Lower-Leg Hot-Water Immersion: doi.org/10.1152/ajpregu.0030… @AJPRegu
⚡️ Influence of spontaneous bursts of muscle sympathetic nerve activity on superficial femoral artery and femoral vein flow at rest and during slow deep breathing: doi.org/10.1152/ajpheart.007… @ajpheartcirc @DrJamesPFisher
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Review by BH Roxburgh et al. (@naotofuj @Kate_N_Thomas @otago) #Hotwaterimmersion: a (not so) new #therapy for the primary and secondary prevention of #hypertension? 🛀🔥
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Central arterial stiffness, flow-mediated dilation and venous function in postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) 😵💫 | @ajpheartcirc
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Exercise and hypoxia independently stimulate platelet liberation of brain-derived neurotrophic factor and platelet factor 4: doi.org/10.1113/JP289261
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The first paper from our prolonged fasting study! 🤐Changes in plasma cytokines following a 60‐h fast are not influenced by the addition of exercise despite elevated ketones in healthy young adults - Bouck - 2025 - @hashim90i @DrJonLittle @PhysRep
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♨️ Both hot- and thermoneutral-water immersion reduce 24-h blood pressure in people with hypertension: A randomized crossover study tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Intense exercise at high altitude causes platelet loss across the brain in humans - Gibbons - The Journal of Physiology - Wiley Online Library
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Well that’s a wrap on the 2023 Cardiovascular Ultrasound Workshop and the UniSC Research Masterclass on Cardiovascular Health, Exercise and Ageing. Thanks to our invited speakers and attendees for making the events a huge success!
Bidirectional perforator veins: normal or not? ↔️ Here's what we think @otago @PhlebologyJourn...
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Final announcement - Cardiovascular Ultrasound Workshop - Sunshine Coast (Nov 28-30). Hands-on workshop covering advanced methods including flow mediated dilatation (FMD), carotid intima thickness, and transcranial Doppler (TCD). Only a few places left > docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
Upper-limb HIIT ⬆️ VO2peak by 16% and both HIIT and heat therapy ⬆️ anaerobic threshold ~10% in patients with osteoarthritis prior to hip/knee replacement 🦵@otago @heartotago
Read more about our RCT here: doi.org/10.1002/acr.25238
Come join us on the Sunshine Coast (Nov 28-30) for an ultrasound workshop! 🌊☀️ Learn some tricks of the trade 🧚🏻♀️ and get amongst a great programme of talks in the Research Masterclass (1 Dec) 🤓 – at Queenstown-Lakes District, New Zealand
Join us for the Cardiovascular Ultrasound Workshop (Nov 28-30). As a bonus we’re also hosting a Research Masterclass (Dec 1) on “Cardiovascular Health, Exercise and Ageing” with a great line-up of national and international invited speakers. More info here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
Still over here talking about exercise and veins (to anyone that will listen!)🦵See our latest commentary in @EJVES_ESVS, with some athletic legs to illustrate:
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Yes I do have "exercise on the brain" 🤓 We've been busy in the lab (and in the hills!) @otago🏔️... An exciting collaboration with Dr Travis Gibbons @UBC_HES, and fun running with @joseph_aotearoa and chatting with @cconcannonsci🏃♀️
🔊 Listen now! We've got exercise on the brain... as do @Kate_N_Thomas & @joseph_aotearoa, exercise physiologists & keen mountain runners who research how exercise affects the brain & body
@cconcannonsci finds out more at the Mt Difficulty Ascent ⛰️
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It’s us on a podcast @joseph_aotearoa! “I’m feeling a million bucks”! Haha 🤩 – at Dunedin City, New Zealand
Coming up this week, @cconcannonsci meets 2 physiologists investigating what exercise does to the brain – putting themselves through the paces of a gruelling mountain race ⛰️🏃♀️
Tune in on Thursday 🎧
Are you a Vascular Sonographer interested in a year working and exploring in New Zealand? 🗺️ Come and work in Dunedin (@otago) with a great team (April 2024 - March 2025) ✨Apply or enquire here:
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Excited to announce that the popular Cardiovascular Ultrasound Workshop is coming to the Sunshine Coast – PLUS we’re hosting a Research Masterclass on “Cardiovascular Health, Exercise and Ageing” | More info> docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
