Placebo vs. Real
Recovery tools are a multi-billion-dollar market.
Every week there’s a new claim, a new must-have.
Ice baths.
Compression boots.
Theraguns.
Infrared saunas.
Red-light panels.
Everyone’s buying them.
Almost none of them work the way you think.
I researched peer-reviewed studies, not marketing copy, to see how these tools actually affect your body.
Some of these tools actively hurt your gains.
Others are expensive placebos.
A few actually work, but not how they’re marketed.
Here’s what the science actually says.