Fact and Fiction of Health and Wellness with Dr. Nick Tiller
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The Dangers of Pseudoscience
Phelps is the most successful Olympic athlete of all time. He came out of the Rio 2016 Games with big circular bruises all over his back and shoulders. This is the result of an ancient Chinese therapy known as cupping. It's widely considered to be a pseudoscience. And he uses it to mitigate muscle thorns. But there are some societies that say the cupping therapy can be used to treat asthma and asthmatic symptoms, right? We're getting a little bit of thin ice here when I strongly recommend that you don't use cupping therapy to treat your asthmatic Symptoms.
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