There are few books that I simply can't stand to finish, and this was one of them. For context, I coach people to rehabilitate pain through a combination of physiotherapy work and personal training, and have exclusively worked with clients in this field for 10 years. I'm well researched in this field and have worked with clients who have simple muscle tears to disc hernations, spinal degeneration, strokes, and neurological disorders.
This book reads a lot like the best-selling but highly problematic "The Secret", which is based around manifesting anything you want in life. On the surface, this is generally fine, but when it comes to health, it can be downright dangerous. You can't think away cancer, (which people who've read The Secret have done, forgoing proven medical treatment).
This book begins with a lengthy manifesto about how this method of healing isn't scientifically backed by any evidence, and essentially to just trust the author. This is reinforces by the constant testimonials and stories that break up nearly every paragraph of the book. You don't even find out what The Body Code method even is until the book is almost done. That's how much time the author spends trying to convince you that there's something worth seeing here.
I can't stress enough how problematic this type of thinking can be. Are there problems with Western medicine and pain treatment, of course, but you also can't ignore how many incredible advancements have been made due to Western methods. The author tends to take pot shots at everything western to further his point.
In pain science, there is a lot we don't know still, and there are plenty of treatments, like chiropractic, acupuncture, and osteopathy, that actually don't have a lot of scientific backing but still give results to people in pain. However, when you dig deeper, you find that a lot of the "results" from these methods are neurological and placebo based without fixing the root causes of your pain. That seems to be the realm this book is getting at, with a lot of reliance on placebo and hoping this method will work because other treatments didn't.
If research comes out that removing heart walls and using magnets genuinely helps with people's pain, I'll happily change my tune, but until then, this book remains pseudoscience at best and a way of driving people away from things that work at worst.