Magnetic Jewelry Therapy

Is Magnetic Therapy a pseudoscience?

Click this link: http://www.alexchiu.com/intelliscript/in.cgi?id=1228181625 Alex Chius's Immortality Rings claim to increase youthful appearance by enhancing blood flow with magnets. Can this be true? You can get them free on the site, I would like someone to attempt this.

Public Comments

1. Interesting question but I suspect that, although there might be some truth in his claim, the results will be miniscule. We know that improved blood flow can increase your vitality. When you are stressed over a long time, blood flow in the tissue is reduced, which makes you look older. For evidence, look at how George Bush and Tony Blair have aged in the last eight years. They started their careers as youthful middle age men with high hopes of becoming a great leader in the pages of history but the stress of taking their country to war with Iraq and the ramifications precipitated by the ever critical eyes and their political adversaries, has taken its toll on both of them, physically, mentally and in Bushes case, intellectually. Once the physical benefits of a less stressful lifestyle begins to show, they will look years younger. People with stressful lifestyles always look older than they are - incidentally that is only the case if they are not managing the stress particularly well. Now the question is, can magnetic therapy work for us? Hemoglobin is made from both iron and protein. The iron element might be able to respond to the fields generated by the magnetic but the amount of iron contained in the RBC is so small, that only a supermagnetic like thosed used in MRI will have any effect. You can see for yourself. Next time you cut yourself, keep some of the blood and try to influence its position with a magnetic. The chances are you will have very little success. If this magnetic therapy could work, the magnetic fields would have to be able to penetrate the thick, multilayed skin. This is highly unlikely. Magnetic fields can easily be stopped by a large enough object.
2. By pseudoscience do you mean a theory that has no basis in reality and no credible experimental data to suggest its true? By that definition, yes its a pseudoscience. Most of us just call it bullsh!t though.