"Smarter than you think" and "Similar to tiktok trends"...These are contradictory. Unless you thought our ancestors had undergone total lobotomies

They were developing health practices based on the best knowledge they had at the time

The key part of the phrase. They didn't have a lot of knowledge, and couldn't have until fundamental medical principles were discovered in the 20th century. The fact that they used things similar to modern day pseudoscientific "alternative" medicine, like detox, with little effect is not really surprising, that is where this kind of thing will always lead you.

The surprising thing is a historian of medicine treating it as some kind of mindblowing revelation.

Seems rather fitting to me, considering TikTok and its too many 'Social Media' siblings have ushered our societies into a new Dark Age.

“Milady having fainting spells? Dispell her curse with nary a peach pit.”

No personal disrespect to you OP, but gotta call a spade a spade: this article is dogwater clickbait and not a good fit for this comm.

I already had a feeling we are back in dark sience age