magnetic therapy / wristbands

[teepeeat]

If you believe they work, then they may actually work. It's called the placebo effect.

 

But NO scientific evidence has ever been produced to document any effect from copper and/or magnets on your wrist. A properly conducted scientific study would be "double blind", i.e. users are chosen by random to wear either a copper/magnet bracelet or a stainless-steel (placebo) one, and neither the user, nor the person conducting the study knows if he is wearing the "real" one or the placebo one. After a period, the effects are measured, and "real" and placebo are compared.

 

One such study is published here: Science-Based Medicine Copper and Magnetic Bracelets for Arthritis

 

So, a piece of rubber tube or prussic rope wrapped around your wrist would likely have the same effect, if you believed in its effect!

 

Agree with Morten's comment regarding the placebo effect - put in other words, the human mind is a powerful tool - if only we knew how to use it.

 

Personally wouldn't go on too much about the whole scientific argument. Science is just the accumulation of the latest human knowledge and there is still much to learn on any particular topic you would care to mention. And that is without considering how many blind alleys human knowledge has run up as a lot is based on assumption and hypothesis.

Quoting scientific evidence as the ultimate authority just highlights our human arrogance.

That said, it is a good place to start, we just need to be open to results other than those predicted by science.

[GardenKit]

Bio-flows really do work, no placebo about it.

Put one on an old dog (4 legged variety) to find out.