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  1. Barwood M, Corbett J, White D, et al. (2012). Early change in thermal perception is not a driver of anticipatory exercise pacing in the heat. Br J Sports Med, 46(13), 936–42.
  2. Best R, Payton S, Spears I, et al. (2018). Topical and Ingested Cooling Methodologies for Endurance Exercise Performance in the Heat. Sports (Basel), 6(1), 2.
  3. Flood T. (2018). Menthol Use for Performance in Hot Environments. Curr Sports Med Rep, 17(4), 135-139.
  4. Flood, Waldron, Jeffries. (2017). Oral L-menthol reduces thermal sensation, increases work-rate and extends time to exhaustion, in the heat at a fixed rating of perceived exertion. Eur J Appl Physiol, 117(7), 1501-1512.
  5. Galeotti N, Di Cesare Mannelli L, Mazzanti G, Bartolini A, Ghelardini C. Neurosci Lett. (2002). Menthol: a natural analgesic compound. Neurosci, 322(3), 145-8.
  6. Jeffries O, Waldron M. (2019). The effects of menthol on exercise performance and thermal sensation: A meta-analysis. J Sci Med Sport, 22(6), 707-715.
  7. Le Meur, Y. (2020) Beating the heat with menthol. YLMSportScience. ylmsportscience.com/2020/12/07/beating-heat-with-menthol, opens in a new tab.
  8. Mundel, T., & Jones, D. A. (2010). The effects of swilling an L(-)-menthol solution during exercise in the heat. European Journal of Applied Physiology, 109(1), 59-65.
  9. Stevens & Dascombe. (2015). The reliability and validity of protocols for the assessment of endurance performance: an updated review. Meas Phys Edu Exerc Sci, 19(4), 177-85.
  10. Stevens, C. J., Thoseby, B., Sculley, D. V., Callister, R., Taylor, L., & Dascombe, B. J. (2016). Running performance and thermal sensation in the heat are improved with menthol mouth rinse but not ice slurry ingestion. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, 26(10), 1209-1216.
  11. Stevens C, Bennett K, Sculley D, et al. (2017). A comparison of mixed-method cooling interventions on preloaded running performance in the heat. J Strength Cond Res, 31(3), 620-29.

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