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https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_fl/L20000049338

second author’s affiliation is … a ghost company?

Big sauna pushing propaganda?

Most likely. He has his own podcast as well. In regions of Japan and Korea and Nordic countries where Sauna and Spas are a normal part of life are. Japan and Korea both have similar diets to America in recent years and similar health issues because of their dining out cultures yet both have high life expectancies. As do normal wealthy nations without them. It's safe to say life expectancy has more to do with advancements in technology rather than a fun and relaxing experience. One of the things I dislike the most about it all is that saunas are just meant to be relaxing but the involvement of psuedo science in it has been concerning but is also due to it's association with chiropracty and the Chinese Alternative Medicine movement that has been adapted over into Korea and Japan. Unironically through religion and shamanism. Chiropracty is a dangerous pseudoscience though massages at certain levels may be harmless and fun but have no real medicinal value.

>Japan and Korea both have similar diets to America

I do not think this is true. I don't love the world in data guy, but according to his work, Americans consume way more calories than Japan/Korea [0]

[0]https://ourworldindata.org/food-supply

This is in reference to the types of foods most commonly consumed by the average adult dailt in Japan and Korea. Dealing heavily in fried foods and high sodium content due to the regionality. It is similar to the Southern portion of the North American Diet the most but with less caloric content. Yet the same heart problems afflicting African Americans effect Koreans and Japanese the difference in survival rates is early detection and preventative measure. Which result in significantly higher life expectancies.

I am pretty sure obesity is a huge difference, unless you are including reducing it as a preventative measure. The diet may be the same but you are going to have way more heart problems at a BMI of 35 than 25. Anybody who has been to both Japan/SK and the South could tell you that there is a massive difference in BMI between the two areas.

> Chiropracty is a dangerous pseudoscience

Maybe true on some level, and there are certainly a lot of scam artists or misguided ones, but I've seen too many anecdotal cases of people with major issues that couldn't be solved by physical therapists somehow resolved or greatly alleviated by a chiropractor to write them off.

Placebo effect is very real. Just as many people who believe in alternative medicines. An essential oil can not cure you of anything.

Not nearly the same thing. You can't fix these kind of things with a placebo.

For one definite example I know someone who even took a dog after it got a vertebrae out of alignment and wasn't walking right and it fixed the issue.

sure you can.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34051018/

many chronic pain conditions respond well to placebo therapies. Because pain is more centrally mediated than you’d think.

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