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What medical research is this based on? Isn't general breathing exercises, generally bunk? edit: Having any medical-adjacent app collect any data for the use o
by its-summertime 1y ago
What medical research is this based on? Isn't general breathing exercises, generally bunk?
edit: Having any medical-adjacent app collect any data for the use of advertising (according to the app page) seems really wrong.
- throaway920181 1y agoHaving done plenty of yoga in my life, I can tell you that breathing exercises are not "bunk."
- cnasc 1y agoIf someone said "having taken many doses of basically just water in my life, I can tell you that homeopathy is not 'bunk'" would you find that to be a convincing argument?
- its-summertime 1y agoI think yoga might be a confounding variable in that case.
- lukko 1y agoHey, breathing exercises do seem to have quite a positive effect, and are very low cost and low risk - recent meta-analysis here [0]. One of the reasons the evidence base is so patchy, is that compliance is generally quite low, which is one of the reasons for making a digital platform that can map any benefit to how frequently patients use the platform. The wellness version only creates an anonymised token to track installs - no other data is shared. The medical device version will be a separate app. [0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39477355/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39477355/