Winter sale is now on for all Titanium Magnetic Bracelets

The winter sale is now on at Magnetic Products Store. Do not dare missing the products that comes with offers as follows:

Titanium magnetic bracelets with single magnets per link (With over 30 styles): Was £29.95, now only £26.95!

Titanium magnetic bracelets with two magnets per link (With over 15 styles): Was £39.95, now £32.95!

Titanium & Germanium magnetic bracelets: Was £49.95, now £39.95!

Titanium magnetic bracelets – The Jet Black range: Was £44.95, now £32.95!

Go ahead and browse the fantastic reductions today. There is something for everybody. And there is a free shipping to the UK, and a flat postage rate for any quantity for international buyers.

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Take part in the discussion about magnetic therapy jewellery

This forum may not be active much yet, but more people are visiting it by the day! Check this out at:

http://www.magnetic-products-store.com/forums/

So called Knowledge Centres in commercial sites

Bellow is an interview with an executive in the industry. One of his main responsibly in the organization is the Knowledge Centre of his company which sells magnetic jewellery, magnetic bracelets, or magnetic jewelry as they are called in the United States. And oh boy he have a full belly on other similar outlets. In this interview – mostly a non-stop monologue, we can revile interesting practices by the industry. Let’s see the full interview:

I enter the office and the phone starts to ring. Here we go again, I think. I can tell you what it is going to be about. Another brain washed buyer asking me about polarity, enhance magnetism, south and north pole and other mambo jumbo.

A buyer who purchased let’s say an expensive top of the range Premium Titanium Magnetic Bracelet because he liked the looks of it on his screen go on after that and “find out” a lot about magnetic bracelets and magnetic therapy on the internet. While he carries on surfing and bathing in the new found knowledge, a little voice inside his head starts to raise the alarm bells. As he reads more and find few more references to those new “facts”, the little voice becomes massive sirens of real emergency – the person starts to see red and starts coming in and out of his scope of vision. The warning signs are out there, and he cannot ignore them any more, so he picks up the phone and call us.

I pick up the phone, and the conversation goes like this. After the necessary pleasantries, he goes for the kill:

I have a question : magnets are measured in 2 ways , one is the total gauss of a magnet and then the power on the surface of the magnet which is not the same and it’s usually about 8 or 10 times smaller than the total gauss power of the magnet . Which reading are you giving to the power of the magnets on your bracelets, the total gauss power or the surface power of the magnet ?

Well, after that spill I ask for a second, cover the handset and drive my head on the wall, slamming it for few minutes. I than take the handset and hit the desk few times. I than compose my professional self and start to deal with this nonsense:

“I have no idea what is “the total gauss of a magnet” or “the power on the surface of the magnet” and no idea how to measure any of them. We measure the magnets by attaching pins of the gauss meter to each side of the magnets and take a reading. You can call it surface, I suppose. The distinction you quoted is an invention of magnetic jewellery website, to convince you that their items is better (or different) from other. Don’t believe everything you read on the internet…There is only one way to measure magnets, and you need to take the magnets out of the bracelet to do that.”

Is the buyer happy? No, of course he is not. He just paid a lot of money just to find out that all this magnificent technical impressive data that validates his decision to splash a lot of money on magnetic bracelet is mambo jumbo?

I will tell you what is going to happen: He will feel cheated. He may even ask for a refund and get the same item somewhere else, where they do give him enough positive ‘scientific’ re-enforcement and justification to buy magnetic jewellery.

People are still asking

You may be forgiven to think that everybody knows everything that there is to know about magnetic therapy. Further more, you may also be forgiven (Yes, I am in a forgiving mood today) thinking that everybody on this planet have a rock solid opinion. Well, you could be wrong. In fact, I can categorically announce the whole world that you are.Wrong., that is. The Answer Bank website features a debate about this very issue.

One is asking: “magnets are said to help arthritis (i’m a sufferer myself), personally i’ve tried them in the form of a bracelet but had to take it off after a short while because of shooting pains in my arm (my arthritis is in my elbows and knees). one thing that does help is Iboprofen pain killing gel. its worth trying as it gives a good few hours of relief.” Obviously, that is not a fan of magnetic therapy (That was posted on March 2006),

And though agreeing with the spirit of things, one add – “…I do have a couple of friends who swear by them…”.

A person looks like a dog (honestly, he looks like a dog). Well, maybe the image he provided is of HIS dog. If so, how stupid is this situation – does he want people to fall in love with his dog, is he trying to get a friend for the dog? A dog’s best friend is the man – so…?

Any how, back to the matter at hand. That dodgy dog person says that “…If it is the onset of arthritis they may help..but once it’s gets hold there is no cure . You can only give them a try.
I would see your GP who will be able to give you professional advice and an anti imflammatory gel or medication. Feldene Gel is very good and you can get it over the counter at the chemist.Try Glucosamine or cod liver oil as an alternative.But..these take a while to kick in.
Arthritis in the feet is very painful .If it is in the heel area you may have what are called Hebdens Nodes ..these are what you get in the finger joints. Those knobbly lumps. Once they get to a certain pitch the pain eases.But this takes a long time !
I have tried magnet therapy and it did no good whatsoever.
In the meantime keep moving ! Wiggle your feet about as much as possible .” And you know what - ultimately you are correct.

A fake blog here

I have found a fine example of an automated blog that takes the micky out of the whole magnetic therapy debate. This blog is an automated blog, where the content is used again and again in different blogs and site, and a software replaces words in the different versions, so the search engines will not penalise the site for duplicate content.

The following line says it all: “As abundant as possible, you would appetite your adolescent to attending appealing and able so you may appetite to accede authoritative her abrasion pieces of jewelry that can emphasis her outfit. Earrings are amid the Accessories you can opt to beautify your child’s actualization but if her aerial are not pierced, you can buy magnetic earrings for kids instead.”

Not exactly the Queen’s English, is it?
And wait, there is mre: ” For bandage earrings, the magnets should accept a appraisement of 1,000 Gauss and should be amid into their collapsed backside. bandage earrings should additionally accept ear clips with a bounce arrangement to ascendancy the magnets in their appropriate place. Also, accomplish abiding that the earrings can fit calmly on your child’s aerial to anticipate asleep and affliction abnormally back she has to abrasion them for a continued time.”

This is found at http://magneticjewelry.gohiblog.com/

The idea of those sites is simple: Create a site or a blog and fill it with any text – with the key words that are relevant to magnetic bracelet and the beautiful part is that it can be any old tosh – as those sites are not really made for human eyes – they are for the attention of search engines only. And they are really stupid. Still.

Wild argument about magnetic therapy jewellery – believe it or not!

Here is a crazy debate about magnetic therapy and magnetic jewellery:

http://www.metta.org.uk/forums/genf/showsubj.asp?Subject=Magnetic%20therapy%20-nikken%20products

It is amazing how serious people takes the arguments – it is like a Monty Python sketch.

The discussion here descended very fast to the merits of “biopolar” vs. “unipolar” magnets.

And the main point put by one side was that “…Since the north polarity has a negative charge, taping the north side of a magnet to your skin can sedate the build-up of positive energy in your cells. This calms you. The north side is also generally the stronger healing force. Its tendency is to keep bringing us back into balance. It provides a restful, restorative energy and is associated with taking away pain, swelling, and infections, lowering blood pressure, and inhibiting tumour growth. It is also used in the treatment of sprains, broken bones, arthritis, and toothaches.” And “…THE SOUTH SIDE OF A MAGNET makes things grow. For better or worse, it activates, stimulates, and increases = whether blood circulation or cancer. For this reason it is trickier to work with the south side of a magnet. You don’t know what you may be activating. The south side will stimulate and amplify energies, disperse fluids, and increase blood flow. Because of its effect on the production of insulin, THE SOUTH SIDE of a magnet SHOULD NOT be placed on someone who is DIABETIC. I generally limit my use of the south side to working with burns, broken bones, sprains, and blood clots, or to create a close circuit in conjunction with the north side.”

The funny thing about this debate is that when one do a search on the internet – ones come across a massive info that was written by “experts” in very low quality websites – and people takes it as true and reality because it is written in a website. Come on people. A website is the most un-reliable source of information – anybody can write whatever they want – and there is nobody to say what is true and what is bonkers.

The discussion than comes to the war between the die hard factions on Nikken and Bioflow and the non believers in between. Really fun reading. And it gives a new perspective about believe in something intangible – like god maybe. If one can believe in god, one can believe in magnets. Or is that the other way around?

 

Another study rubbishing magnetic therapy

Last week we found out that academics at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City were determined to find out if there was something to back up the any claim made by magnet therapy supporters and sellers that wearing magnets may help to ease pains. The trendy hypothesis is that magnets one way or another increase blood flow to an effected area or block nerve impulses that carry pain information and that’s why wearing them helps, but the results of experiments by Dr. David W. Garrison indicated that there may have been no significant physiological distinction brought about by wearing magnets.

Those researchers think that they found that magnets did not appear to influence the nerve fibbers that transmit information about touch to the spinal cord, which have a propensity to be much more sensitive to encouragement than the nerves that pass on pain signals.

So if these highly sensitive touch nerves were not to be affected by magnets, “it would be a miracle” if magnets could influence the less sensitive pain nerves, the good old Dr. David W. Garrison said in an interview to Magnetic Therapy UK that was conducted via Skype last week.

These results, which are published in the American Journal of Pain Management, suggest that it would be “seemingly farfetched that (magnets) are doing something to alleviate pain,” he whispered in the interview.

The superior Dr. goes on to talk about that any apparent benefit wearers may feel they get from magnets is most likely the Placebo Effect that once again coming into play. Though he also mentioned that it’s possible some real pain relief could be the result of “gating.”

He is saying that “When people feel pain in their wrists from carpal tunnel syndrome, the researcher explained, nerve cells are sending that pain information to the spinal cord. However, if people wear a bracelet that contains a magnet to ease the pain, the pressure from the bracelet will activate other nerves that transmit information about touch to the spinal cord, and these nerves will start to compete with the pain nerve signals, limiting the amount of pain information reaching the brain.”

Later on he said that “…This theory also helps explain why rubbing a painful spot can often make it feel better”.

I bet that sellers of magnetic jewellery will not want this study to be seen by the wide public!

We will follow up this study in the coming months.

 

Introducing the first player – Magnetic therapy trasher

The Sceptic Dictionary is a large and respectable website that is dedicated to “Exploring strange beliefs, amusing descriptions, and dangerous delusions…” It is reputable and appears to be well known and a source of authority in many quarters. This will be a major website that we will explore in our quest to understand the sceptism toward magnetic bracelets.

This is a commercial website with strong presence of advertisement. The reason I emphesise this is the connection that anybody will easy see between the need to be funny and sharp in order to get the readership that will in turn bring the revenues that the authors are aspiring to achieve.

It is a generic site – by that I mean that it is not dedicated to rubbish alternative therapies or magnetic therapy alone – it is a site with wide range interests. It will put all possible targets in it’s site, whenever they come.

The person behind the site is a ‘professional sceptic’: Robert Carroll is an academic that made a life long successful career from criticizing more or less everything, writing text books about it and educating generations of students alone the way towards paradise of self righteousness. One important point to say about him – which by the way will be also the same for most of those who do favour magnetic therapy: He do not posses any scientific education non what so ever. His training is a philosopher’s training.

A quick bird’s eye view of the pages and site navigational structure  puts Alternative medicine on the top of the left hand side menu. It is the most important target by the site, which is again, runs by a philosopher!

That is it for now. At a later posting I will investigate the magnetic therapy category in depth, and try to see the connection the writers makes between that and the commercial mystification - the magnetic jewellery and magnetic bracelets sellers.

New found?

I have found the following article interesting. Not sure how relevant it is to magnetic bracelets or magnetic therapy:

http://forums.marketplaceadvisor.channeladvisor.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=6538&p=40923#p40923

It may even not be relevant to magnetic jewellery. Not sure. What do you think? Please let me know by replying to this post. I will approve all comments – really, I will!