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It's hard to say how effective various alternative styls of medicine happen to be.
There's research that suggests Mormon's can recognize other Mormon from non-Mormons by looking at whether the skin of the other person looks healthy. Then Mormon's seem to live 6 to 10 years longer than other Americans.
On the other hand the nature of claims like this is that it's hard to have reliable knowledge about it.