I thought your story would continue … differently.
Personally, I have a Chinese recipe for eggs boiled in a mix of beer, tea leaves, star anise and other spices for hours on end. Tasted nothing like egg, and except the form didn’t even look like egg. More like some kind of stone.
The worst one I heard from her was a guy who “slipped and fell” on a toilet brush. Guess which end? (hint, not the one you’d think could possibly be inserted without damage to sensitive tissues!)
I’m less bothered by Paltrow’s Goop than I am by most quackery. Unlike most such things, she primarily targets the rich and foolish rather than the poor and dying.
Dunno about Korea, but China, when I lived there, had no potable water. Boiling water (which was then poured into big thermoses for use) for everyone in the household, every day, using specialized charcoal bricket stoves, led to a lot of particulate pollution in cities…
So, drinking hot water was pretty much the only choice, health beliefs or not…