Wearing a cloth face mask while exercising ‘increases breathlessness and claustrophobia’

Wearing a cloth face mask while exercising leads to worse performance, according to the results of a small trial.   It found that when donning a face covering, a person’s exercise duration drops by 14 per cent while participants also recorded increased feelings of  breathlessness and claustrophobia when exercising at higher intensities.     The results of the trial … Read more

Hilary Swank reveals she developed claustrophobia while wearing a space suit on her series Away

She stars on the Netflix series Away, which follows a group of astronauts hoping to be the first people to set foot on Mars. But Hilary Swank had a rude awakening when she began filming in her space suit costume after she suddenly suffered a claustrophobic attack. The 46-year-old Oscar winner revealed in an Instagram … Read more