The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
Intense stimulation of the abdomen, however, with this electroacupuncture has a very strong effect of increasing inflammation in the body, and this is important to understand because it's not just that stimulating the gut does this because you're activating the gut area. It activates a particular nerve pathway. For the aficionados, it's the splenic spinal sympathetic axis if you really want to know, and it's pro-inflammatory under most conditions.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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But what's really beautiful about these papers is he maps it to um specific output from the spleen >> regulated by the vagus nerve regulated by the um these receptors at the level of the skin. So mechanistically it all makes sense.