Modern snake oil, with no proven efficacy. It may have a placebo effect, if you believe it will work, but the FDA hasn't ever proven if it really is effective or not.
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. “He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”- Fredrick Nietzsche
"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." - Immanuel Kant