Did the lads train together Scrap? If they did then the results may be down to environmental factors like weather/temperature or the motivation within the group. Women, when together, fall into hormonal synchronicity - maybe men do as well.

I'm not convinced by the high dilution water imprint thing in homeopathic remedies. They worked as an alternative at a time when the mainstream way of getting rid of disease was to cut an artery and bleed the illness out of the patient.