Magnetic bracelets

golok

golok

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The other day I cam across some stainless steel bracelets which lay claim to its magnetic properties.

Apparently, the bracelet can contribute positively to an individual's health. These claims are unsubstantiated but sounded interesting to me.

Thought I have them verified here, in case someone knows about these "magnetic bracelets".
 
This notion has been around for quite some time:

http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~dylanwad/morganic/bio_mesmer.htm

Some people think that magnets near their joints and organs can heal them, some people believe that living near power lines (Creating an electro-magnetic field) will give them cancer. Some people believe holding a cell phone to their head (another EM field) will give them brain tumors, but holding certain rocks on their chest will purify their mind, body and spirit.

Personally, I think its mostly alarmism and snake-oil. If any of these things have any effect, it isn't a very powerful one. :rolleyes:
 
Quackwatch is a quack, but he is right at least part of the time.

I think the magnetic health properties are almost as true as the fuel line magnets. Any thoughts on those?
 
Be careful with strong magnetic fields, particularly if you have psychic powers. They can destroy your psychic powers! Honest to GOD, a lady who claimed to be a bona fide psychic, underwent a brain MRI at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, and claimed she lost her psychic powers from the MRI. Since Temple did not consent her for "possible loss of her psychic powers," she sued .....and WON a Jury verdict of 0ver $4million :barf: :barf: :barf: :barf: ! After $300,000 in legal fees and 4 years in court the verdict was overturned on appeal :p . The healing powers of magnets (at least at low field strength are total freaking pig dung ;) !

However, a recent series of cases in Kalifornica, (where else :rolleyes: ) reported that a series of psych patients who underwent MRI improved significantly with no other intervention (I forget if they were bipolars or schizophrenics, regardless they were seriously ill patients) :eek: .

Anyway, I'm not buying that one either because in my 12 years of working around MRI technicians they are some of the whackiest people I've met :( !
 
there is truth in this.

just like there is truth in holistic medicines, healers, sugar pills...

placebos aren't bad. god (or whoever) blessed us with consciousness and imagination, and in return we payed for it with a weak sense of determination and poor esteem (some less than others ;) ). the human mind is quite malleable.

so a magnetic bracelet offers no physical benefit or harm (except you'll kill all your floppy disks and can't go near a computer moniter and might wipe your credit card mag strips and you better not wear it on the same wrist as your watch), so it's just a hunk of metal adorned with magnetic properties.

they say, wearing one will relieve pain or offer you luck or make you feel better. well, if you believe that, and you wear one and DO feel better (because you convinced yourself that you will), then.... the magnetic bracelet worked. they said you would feel better, and you do. whether or not it alters anything physically....

you can't judge how variables will affect the human mind.
 
The biggest reason not to use the magnetic bracelets is because they degrade the performance of your aluminum foil hat. At least that's true for me ;)

Rob
(damn gov't trying to read my thoughts)
 
Dr. Nick said:
The biggest reason not to use the magnetic bracelets is because they degrade the performance of your aluminum foil hat. At least that's true for me ;)
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Thanks for pointing that out!!! I thought I was safe all this time with my double-thickness foil hat, only to find out that my magnetic jock strap was totally nullifying its effects.

Now that it’s been mentioned, I haven’t had a single case of déjà vu since donning the aforementioned jock.
 
golok said:
The other day I cam across some stainless steel bracelets which lay claim to its magnetic properties.
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BTW, stainless is generally nonmagnetic. we use it at work around the conveyor magnets for just that reason. :D
 
Damn UN black helicopters flying in the reptoid Illuminati! Skull and Bones members are going to track the foil strips in my £20 notes! Have you realised that "dog" is "God" spelt backwards?

Sorry. It's way past my medication time. I must pop out and buy another copy of "The Catcher in the Rye."

maximus "Rosslyn chapel/Nazca Lines/fluoride" otter
 
maximus otter said:
Have you realised that "dog" is "God" spelt backwards?

maximus "Rosslyn chapel/Nazca Lines/fluoride" otter
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Or, as Booger (Revenge of the Nerds) put it, "What if dog was really spelled C-A-T?"

Bill
 
I have to speculate as to what material loonies employed prior to the invention of aluminum foil. In my career, I've had several "close" encounters with the lunatic fringe, including a lad who lined his hard-had with foil (kept the voices under control) and a lady who wrapped her legs to protect from the "laser beams".

But loonies have been around forever; what did they use a hundred years ago? Inquiring minds want to know.
 
The first recorded case of paranoia in medical literature was of
one James Tilly Matthews, a London tea broker who claimed his
mind was being controlled by a gang operating a machine he
called an "Air Loom" which was hidden in a London cellar and sent
out invisible, magnetic rays. Matthews was committed to Bethlehem Hospital as being insane. His case was published in 1810

"The Air Loom machine which assails Matthews, works on a variety
of fuels of a disgusting nature, including 'effluvia of dogs --
stinking human breath -- putrid effluvia -- ...stench of the
cesspool', and so forth. Its rays assault both the body and mind,
producing 'a list of calamities hitherto unheard of and for which
no remedy has been yet discovered'. These include 'Fluid
Locking', which renders Matthews speechless; 'Cutting Soul from
Sense', which causes his feelings to be severed from his
thoughts; 'Stone-making', which creates bladder stones;
'Thigh-talking', which produces the auditory distortion of one's
ear being in one's thigh; 'Kiteing', or the capacity to hijack
the brain and to implant thoughts in it beyond the control and
resistance of the sufferer; 'Sudden death-squeezing' or
'Lobster-cracking', which involve the deployment of a magnetic
field to stop the circulation and impede the vital motions;
'Stomach-skinning', which removes the skin from the belly;
'Apoplexy-working with the nutmeg grater', which violently forces
fluids into the head, often with lethal effects; 'Lengthening the
brain', or in other words, forcible thought distortion, which can
'cause good sense to appear as insanity, and convert truth to
libel'; 'Thought-making', which is the extraction by suction of
one train of thought and its replacement with another..."

"Illustrations of Madness", John Haslam, Director of Bethlehem Hospital, London, 1810

maximus otter
 
This is all quite preposterous. We all know that it was Ogre who said, “What if dog was really spelled C-A-T”, not Booger.
 
I don't know about those magnetic bracelets but for some of the people i've asked especially old fogies they say that it helps with joint pain...

Personally i've used a copper bracelet but i don't think it works in the same way...the copper is basically released into your body through the skin...when you wear it a sort of greenish stain is produced on your wrist...
It helped a little with my wrist but i'd much rather just use wrist supports...
 
I doubt very much that copper is absorbed through the skin.Copper as a mineral is essential in small amounts but toxic in large amounts . In todays environment deficiency is rare but excess fairly common especially since copper's antagonist , zinc, is often deficient. Many of the copper deficiency symtoms are mental.
 
Everything I've seen about the copper bracelets has been that they are 100% as effective as the magnetic bracelets.

That is, not at all.
 
I wore a copper/magnetic Sabona bracelet for over four years. Using a computer up to twelve hours a day, the Sabona was the only thing that kept my wrist from hurting. Pro golfers and rodeo folks seem to like them for the same reason. It was a real savior.

I finally ditched the bracelet. Why? I kept scratching my watchbands with it when sleeping. A couple of months using a wrist strengthening gyro, the pain is gone along with the bracelet.
 
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