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.
acupuncture involves taking needles and sometimes electricity Andor heat as well and stimulating particular locations on the body and if somebody has a gastrointestinal issue like their their guts are moving too quick they have diarrhea you stimulate this area and it'll slow their gut motility down or if their gut motility is too slow they're constipated you stimulate someplace else and it accelerates it
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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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there are actually a lot of really good peer-reviewed studies supporting the use of acupuncture for in particular GI trct issues in recent years