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Do any of you have experiences with using magnets to help with ailments? We use to use special blankets on the expensive horses that had magnets in them. I had a waist wrap that had magnets in it when I was a teenager recovering from cracked ribs.
I helped an older gentleman that had magnet socks & he loves them. Have any of you tried them? Did they help? What brand? I am thinking of getting my dog a bed with them.
 
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Zero.
Absolutely zero.

Crystals and karma alignments have the same effect.

https://www.livescience.com/40...agnetic-therapy.html





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There are no health benefits to magnets. None. Zero. Zilch. It is quackery.

Any perceived benefit is placebo.

Save your money.

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Static magnets = snake oil. Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Therapy...well, on my second day of trials. PEMF



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See, I figure a lot of the benefits have to do with the placebo effect, but I'm in the camp of the mind is a powerful tool & it does no harm. My thing is that my dog isn't going to have the placebo effect because even if I tell him it's gonna make him feel like a young pup again, he doesn't really have a clue what I'm talking about.
I think the wrap I had as a teenager helped mainly because of the compression value, but again, the magnets wouldn't have hurt anyway so no harm.
 
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Didn't mean to invalidate your experience. If you think they do something, by all means continue.



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My girlfriend was asking about "Magnetized Water". I get a lot of pseudo science questions from her.

No.

Yes placebos work, magnets don't.


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The magnets only work if you use them with copper socks or bracelets. Wink
 
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Use the magnetized copper.




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Other than believing they will work, I can't see any benefits. For someone suffering from chronic pain, say, from arthritis, this is not to be completely discounted. The human mind has a way of making things happen when it really wants to. But even this benefit is lost on animals, which don't think this way.
 
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Good for your health - if they're heavy enough they make great free weights....



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If you have one in your brain it will help you navigate when you fly south in the winter and back home in the spring.


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Use the magnetized copper.


Magnetized gold looks prettier Wink







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They are an aid to peaceful coexistence. Your sweetie puts important stuff on the fridge for you to note WITH MAGNETS, like a party or gathering four months in the future. Gives you plenty of time to psyche yourself up for the event.
 
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There are no health benefits to magnets. None. Zero. Zilch. It is quackery.


Not true... saved Tony Stark's life. Had some pretty cool benefits too




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Essential oils, homeopathy, astrology, chiropractors, and magnets.

I think the healing salt cave in the local office park closed recently, so there's hope for humanity.
 
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An article on the world's most powerful magnet. The article finishes with a statement that researchers have not found a benefit to wearable magnets.

https://www.popularmechanics.c...cience/a226/1280796/


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MRI's are pretty good. Wink


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A sockful of nickel-cobalt magnets can be an attractive alternative to a sockful of marbles in a free-for-all - mainly due to the many sharp corners, but apart from that, my belief in magnetic healing is non-existent.
 
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Voodoo.


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