I'm tempted to draw a comparison with Laurence Olivier and Dustin Hoffman. When they were making "Marathon Man" together, Method-actor Hoffman would run around a lot before a scene where he was supposed to have been running, so he could plausibly convey exhaustion. At one point Olivier turned to him and said sympathetically "Dear boy, why don't you try acting? It's so much easier?"
Pseudoscience can be enormous fun but every now and again in comics it's probably better to leave as "It's hand-wavy science-y stuff, nothing to see here"