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Fact, Fiction or Scam ?

Lainie71 said:
I don't believe it but having said that I wear a magnet for hot flushes and that works. I know because if I don't use it, the hot flushes come back with vengeance. Weird science I call it.
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What magnet do you wear? I have had prostate cancer and my hormone treatment gives me constant daily hot flushes. So willing to try anything
 
PGL14 said:
What magnet do you wear? I have had prostate cancer and my hormone treatment gives me constant daily hot flushes. So willing to try anything
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Its just what they call a lady care magnet. It may work, a magnets a magnet I would have thought, male or female. Hot flushes are horrid. Hope you get some relief from them and that you recover from prostate cancer.
 
I’m glad I found this post I came really close to buying it, but didn’t press the button to confirm the order because I suddenly thought £31 is a lot of money if it doesn’t work. I also thought if it does what the said in the article I read,(helps with weight loss was what it suggested) you’d think it’d be all over the news and social media as the perfect cure, but it’s not. I’m so glad I had doubts
 
If it looks like a fish and smells like a fish it’s a fish
 
I've just seen an ad for this product, and am not particularly impressed. HOWEVER I do wear a magnetic bracelet and have worn one for many years, and it has been transformative for my dodgy knees, to the point where I could stop taking daily glucosamine (recommended by a GP, who says it is effective in 4 out of 5 people), and no longer consider my knees dodgy! So maybe, just maybe, the bracelet might help regulate blood sugar - but I'm not going to buy one!
 
Mrs Redboots said:
I've just seen an ad for this product, and am not particularly impressed. HOWEVER I do wear a magnetic bracelet and have worn one for many years, and it has been transformative for my dodgy knees, to the point where I could stop taking daily glucosamine (recommended by a GP, who says it is effective in 4 out of 5 people), and no longer consider my knees dodgy! So maybe, just maybe, the bracelet might help regulate blood sugar - but I'm not going to buy one!
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No amount of ions or magnetism are going to help my knees @Mrs Redboots . They need replacing. I do know people who wear copper bracelets and have said they have felt an improvement, but I suspect their knees were not mechanically damaged. . I’m Glad your knees are much better. :)
The post the thread is referencing is 100% a scam, designed to part people from their money.
 
Melgar said:
No amount of ions or magnetism are going to help my knees @Mrs Redboots . They need replacing. I do know people who wear copper bracelets and have said they have felt an improvement, but I suspect their knees were not mechanically damaged. . I’m Glad your knees are much better. :)
The post the thread is referencing is 100% a scam, designed to part people from their money.
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Then I hope you get the replacements asap, and don't have to wait too long for them. A very nasty recovery period, I gather, but after that it's brilliant!
 
Oldvatr said:
Titanium ions? From an otherwise inert wristband? Bunkum science for a start. titanium is a metal and the ion only exists when it is irradiated by an Ion Beam Accelerator such as at Cern. Apparently the reaction is Ti+ • 9Ti) + Ti = (Ti+ • 10Ti) it is short lived and is quickly quenched by adjacent material in the metal which conducts the charge away.

SCAM ALERT. Reminds me of the magnetic wristbands and copper bracelets used for 'curing' rheumatism.
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I remember buying bracelets for my daughter when she was about 5 and suffered a bit with travel sickness.

Complete rubbish, but worked incredibly well as a placebo. We spoke the other week and she mentioned them - she is now 20 so obviously knows it was all rubbish but thought it was a great idea as the travel sickness stopped immediately.
 
peterb999 said:
I remember buying bracelets for my daughter when she was about 5 and suffered a bit with travel sickness.

Complete rubbish, but worked incredibly well as a placebo. We spoke the other week and she mentioned them - she is now 20 so obviously knows it was all rubbish but thought it was a great idea as the travel sickness stopped immediately.
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They aren't a placebo - they stimulate a particular shiatsu point in the wrist (P9, I believe), which reduces nausea from almost all causes, but they are mostly used for travel sickness. I've been using them for years. I did think at first they were a placebo - but on occasions, I've forgotten to put them on and then wondered why I had started to feel sick! As soon as I realised I wasn't wearing them, and put them on, the sickness abated. It can't be placebo, as I hadn't realised I wasn't wearing them. I believe they don't work for everybody, but they do for the vast majority of people!
 
Mrs Redboots said:
They aren't a placebo - they stimulate a particular shiatsu point in the wrist (P9, I believe), which reduces nausea from almost all causes, but they are mostly used for travel sickness. I've been using them for years. I did think at first they were a placebo - but on occasions, I've forgotten to put them on and then wondered why I had started to feel sick! As soon as I realised I wasn't wearing them, and put them on, the sickness abated. It can't be placebo, as I hadn't realised I wasn't wearing them. I believe they don't work for everybody, but they do for the vast majority of people!
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As soon as she knew that they were a placebo they didn't work anymore.
 
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