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sultanofswing | 6 years ago

Will be interesting to hear her perspective, but like an above poster mentioned it doesn't amount to much.

Couple that with the fact that athletes notoriously buy into 'woo' treatments (not to mention Joe Rogan himself is notoriously into 'woo') and it's unsurprising that she may rave about it.

Just to give a few things I've heard fighters 'rave' about in the past that have little to no substantive effect on performance: - Crossfit and 'functional' fitness at large - Cryo dunking themselves after a workout - Elevation masks - Bulletproof coffee - CBD (not saying there aren't effects but the range of health claims made border on the absurd) - Eating a Vegan diet vs a Paleo diet vs a Keto diet... - Movement(?) training - Acupuncture - Cupping

The list is almost endless. Athletes are always looking for an edge, and many of them (much like the general populace) are not well equipped to separate the woo from the goo.

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throwaway_law|6 years ago

I don't disagree with you at all.

One thing that struck me was that her rTMS I think was for concussive syndrome/symptoms. Whereas I thought rTMS was primarily marketed for depression and anxiety (seems some of the other posters here have personally tried rTMS for depression). Her personal story includes the tragedy of her husband committing suicide leaving her behind with their young daughter, so maybe she also has/had some depression issues and was seeing benefits with respect to that...anyway give the podcast a listen, she is an interesting person anyway.