Menthol Mouth Rinsing Improves Cycling Performance in Females under Heat Stress
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study investigated the effects of a menthol mouth rinse on performance and physiological responses in female cycling athletes during a 30-km individual time trial (ITT). Participants (n=9) cycled for 30-km in hot conditions (30 ± 0.6 °C, 70 ± 1% relative humidity, 12 ± 1 km/h windspeed) on two test occasions using a menthol (MEN) mouth rinse (MR) occurring every 5-km. Perceptual responses (perceived exertion and thermal perception) were recorded at 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, and 30-km. The MEN MR significantly improved ITT performance by 2.3 ± 2.7% relative to PLA (p= 0.034, d= 0.85, 95% CI= 8.43 to 166.9). There were no significant differences in perceived exertion and thermal perception. These results demonstrate that a non-thermal cooling agent can improve physiological performance in moderately trained female cyclists with no change in perceived exertion or thermal perception.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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