Magnetized Water

Posted on December 22, 2010 by

Most people are aware that the quality of water they drink can make a significant impact on their health, however most are not aware that water is a diamagnetic substance. In other words, magnetized water aids in the absorption of minerals and vitamins and increases the removal of unhealthy toxins. Also, magnetized water help to provide anti-oxidant protection for the body.

Magnetized water systems significantly lower acids while increasing oxygenation. This results in improved digestion and also better tasting water. For systems like this, you stir in the product and allow it to stand for about a half an hour.

The way these systems work is by cleaning your water. Water that originates from wells, lakes, or running streams is naturally magnetized as it flows through the magnetic field of the earth. During water treatment and transportation, this water travels beneath the ground through metal pipes where the charge dissipates. When water is treated with magnetism, the natural energy and charge are once again restored. Also, the ionizing magnetic field increases the level of oxygenation, impeding bacteria growth while improving the taste of the water.

When people drink magnetized water, they have reported improved health. Magnetized water also has beneficial effects on plants and animals. Although this type of technology is somewhat new in the US, it has been in use for thousands of years. A significant benefit is that magnetism is able to speed up the sedimentation process of suspended particles in water. As water passes through a magnetic field, the hydrogen ion, and any particles dissolved into the water gain a charge, which then creates a temporary separation of the particles from the water molecules. This can result in better tasting water.

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Types of Magnetic Bracelets for Pain Relief

Posted on December 21, 2010 by

The use of magnets as therapeutic devices is not new but an age-old practice and recently it is undergoing a popular revival due to the influence of modern magnetic materials and also due to the increasing use of magnet therapy in the health and sports arena to relieve pain and encourage healing of injuries. Among the different types of magnetic equipment use for therapeutic purposes let us discuss about the magnetic bracelets that are primarily used for pain all up and down the arm and are probably found with the golfers and arthritis sufferers and even with some people who wear them as a preventative measure. Continue reading →

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Magnetic Bracelets For Health How It Works?

Posted on December 21, 2010 by

Alternative treatments have emerged with huge popularity as they have successfully replaced the exiting medicines. Magnetic therapy is one of the most effective healthcare options that offer pain relieving effect without any synthetic medicine consumption. Magnetic Bracelets For Health How it works? Continue reading →

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Magnetic Bracelets Are You Still Fighting With Pains ?

Posted on December 21, 2010 by

Jewelry is an integral part of everyones wardrobe. But do you know jewelry can be a good way to get rid of pain. Yes! With the help of magnetic jewelry, you can enjoy a pain free life. People are wearing magnetic bracelet for years in order to get rid of disease named arthritis. Continue reading →

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What Are The Benefits Of Magnetic Bracelets

Posted on December 21, 2010 by

Magnetic therapy has been touted as very beneficial by more and more people, and magnetic bracelets are becoming very popular today. This copper bracelet is primarily used as an arthritis bracelet. Seniors, young women and men are using it. It looks like more of a men’s bracelet, so it is quite wearable. Magnet therapy has its own appeal worldwide and has produced many encouraging as well as discouraging reviews. Continue reading →

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The Power Behind Magnetic Bracelets For Arthritis

Posted on December 21, 2010 by

If not treated properly and immediately, arthritis could cause the individual to lose control and function of affected joints. Although traditional medications have been long produced to treat arthritis, alternative medications have become increasingly popular nowadays. One such example of the latter is using a magnetic bracelet for arthritis. Continue reading →

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Things to Keep in Mind When Buying Magnetic Braces and Supports

Posted on December 20, 2010 by

Some companies which sell magnetic therapy products do not list the type of magnets used in their supports, braces, and other products. You should be careful if you encounter this because the magnets contained in these products may be made of a cheaper-grade material and may not have sufficient magnetic field strength to provide health benefits.

Some other magnetic product vendors may utilize a combination of ceramic and neodymium magnets in their supports and braces. Ceramic magnet products are much weaker than neodymium magnets. For example, if you compare two magnets of the same size, thickness, and gauss rating, the neodymium magnet will nearly always generate a significantly stronger magnetic field than the ceramic magnet.

A back support, or other magnetic product, which consists of ceramic magnets and neodymium magnets is generally measurably weaker than a similar product which contains only neodymium magnets.

Also, there are vendors that may mislead the consumer about the magnetic strength of their products. For example, if there are 20 neodymium magnets (each with a rating of 5,000 gauss) inside a magnetic support product, the magnetic strength of the device will still be only 5,000 gauss.

However, some merchants may mislead the buyer to believe their magnetic therapy products are stronger by adding the gauss rating of all the magnets together. They may advertise such magnet therapy products to have a total gauss rating of 100,000. This isn't accurate, and as a consumer, you should remain careful of merchants who use such methods of advertising.

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Magnet Therapy for Hard-to-Treat Depression

Posted on November 18, 2010 by

A treatment for major depression which utilizes magnetic pulses to stimulate particular regions of the brain, which has previously been shown to relieve acute symptoms for short periods, appears to also work over longer periods when used with antidepressants.

"We wanted to address the question of whether the benefit of TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation) can be sustained over a reasonable time," said Dr. Philip Janicak, the leader of the study and a professor of psychiatry at Rush University Medical Center. "Based on this trial, the answer is yes."

Although this study is too small to provide definitive results, "it indicates that we can maintain the benefit of TMS over 6 months, and do it safely - there were no further risks associated with the use of TMS in combination with antidepressant drugs," said Janicak.

The study was published in the October 2010 issue of Brain Stimulation.

The researchers grouped 301 people diagnosed with depression into either real or fake magnetic therapy for 6 weeks. The fake treatments had a similar feel to the real one.

The 142 people who got and responded well to the actual magnetic therapy then entered a 21 day transitional phase. During that period, they were tapered off the TMS treatments and were started on anti-depressant medications.

Of those 142 patients, 121 - 85% - completed the transitional phase without relapsing, and 99 of the participants agreed to enter a 24 week, follow-up study.

During this 6 month period, only 10 of the 99 participants - 10% - relapsed. Of the 38 participants who experienced worsened symptoms, requiring additional TMS treatments, 32 of them - 84% - improved and avoided another relapse. Altogether, 75% of the particpants maintained a full positive response to the treatments.

Source: Yahoo! News

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Three Studies Regarding Magnetic Therapy and Arthritis

Posted on November 9, 2010 by

Following are three published studies which examined the effects of magnet therapy on arthritic pain. All three of these studies showed that magnetic therapy may help with reducing pain caused by arthritis.

Study 1: Conducted by the Division for Research and Education at Harvard Medical School regarding the effects of magnet therapy on osteoarthritis of the knee. Study participants were exposed to about four hours of magnet therapy in a controlled environment. Additionally, the participants were required to wear a magnetic support over the knee each day for 6 hours. The study took place over a six week period. At the end of the study, pain was shown to have lessened after the four hour magnet therapy treatment. Also, participants who wore the magnetic device over their arthritic knee had a reduction in pain at the conclusion of the study.

Study 2: Study conducted by the Department of Physical Therapy at the University of Texas Medical Branch. The goal of the trial was to determine the effects of magnet therapy on degenerative joint diseases affecting the knee, specifically regardingpain levels and joint function. The study was conducted through a two week period during which the participants wore magnetic devices over their arthritic knee. At the end of the study, the participants indicated a reduction in the pain in the knee, as well as an an increase in knee function.

Study 3: The study was conducted by Vanderbilt University Medical School. The goal was to ascertain how effective magnet therapy was for treating rheumatoid arthritis of the knee. The study lasted for a one week period during which the participants taped medical magnets to the afffected knee. At the end of this study, the participants expressed a reduction in the pain in their knees affected by arthritis.

Source: Life Magnets

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Magnet Therapy for Fibromyalgia Pain

Posted on October 25, 2010 by

Biomagnetic therapy allieved fibromyalgia pain according to a University of Virginia study published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. The overall results of the study were inconclusive, however magnetic therapy relieved fibromyalgia pain enough in one study group to be clinically significant.

Researchers from the University of Virginia used 3 different measures of pain in this study: functional status reported by participants using a standardized fibromyalgia questionnaire, the number of tender points on their body, and ratings of pain intensity.

Data was compiled for 94 fibromyalgia patients divided into 4 study groups. A control group received fake pads containing magnets which had been demagnetized. A second control group continued to receive their regular fibromyalgia treatment. The two other groups received actual magnetic pads: one group used Pad A, which exposed the whole body to a uniform static, negative pole magnetic field. The other used Pad B, which exposed participants to a static magnetic field which varied both spatially and pole-wise. The participants recieved treatment and were tracked for six months.

A statistically significant difference in pain intensity reduction was found for one of the active magnetic pad groups. The two groups that slept on actual magnetic pads generally had the greatest improvements in scores of pain intensity, number of tender points on the body, as well as functional status at the end of the six months.

Pad A group displayed an improvement across all 4 outcome measures at both three and six months. The Pad B group displayed improvement in all the outcomes at three months, but these improvements were only maintained after six months. The fake pad group, and the group receiving standard care exhibited the same.

Source: Pro Health

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Magnetic Therapy: User Testimonial – Jim F.

Posted on October 14, 2010 by

For starters, I was as skeptical as anyone else. How could a magnetic bracelet fix chronic tennis elbow? In 30 rounds of golf this year, I hadn't played a single game without pain. But what the heck, worst case scenario is it looks okay, and my kids will think I am cool. On day three, of a four day tournament, I tried wearing a magnetic bracelet overnight. On day four, which should have been the worst, I played without any pain. Amazing to me but I was still a skeptic. I thought it could have been psycho-somatic or some other reason. The proof, however, was the day after the tournament. I went to the gym for a workout and tried to do a dumbell fly, something that had severe pain before and had limited my weight to about 30% of max with the painful arm. To my absolute surprise I was pain free and able to lift 100%, which I hadn't done for months. I can't come up with a single reason for this change except the magnetic bracelet. I don't know the science of how and why this works, all I know is it does for me.

Jim F.
British Columbia, Canada

Source: Direct Connect Magnetics

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Magnet Therapy May Help Recovery from Strokes

Posted on October 6, 2010 by

Utilizing magnetic fields to slow down activity on the undamaged side of a person's brain after suffering from a stroke, may improve motor function, a small study has found.  The technique, called repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), had positive effects lasting for at least two weeks, according to the report published in the journal Stroke.

According to the lead researcher, Dr. Felipe Fregni, rTMS attempts to slow activity in the side of the brain undamaged by stroke. In that sense, the treatment operates on the same principle as "constraint-induced therapy" - a successful rehabilitation method whereby a stroke survivor's healthy limb is restrained, forcing the affected limb to improve function.

Researchers elsewhere are studying the use of rTMS for other neurological conditions. Previous work on strokes paved the way for the current trial, Fregni said. "We know that several sessions of rTMS can increase the magnitude and duration of the beneficial effects, so we assessed the effect of five sessions," Fregni said.

The study was conducted on 15 people who had suffered from a stroke at least a year earlier. Ten received rTMS treatment to ease activity in the motor cortex area of the unaffected side of the brain. The other five patients got a fake treatment.

Testing reaction-time of the patients' stroke-affected hands, the researchers found that those who received rTMS increased their speed by 30 percent after five days of treatment. This effect lasted for two weeks. The improvement increased earlier, as the number of treatments increased. The patients were, on average, 10 percent, 20 percent, 27 percent and 30 percent faster on days two, three, four and five of treatment, respectively.

Source: Nautral News

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Treating Migraines with Magnetic Therapy

Posted on October 4, 2010 by

Researchers at Ohio State University have conducted a new study which shows magnetic therapy may be helpful for treating some people who suffer from migraine headaches. 

There are about 35 million migraine sufferers in the U.S., according to the American Headache Society.  About 20% of migraine sufferers experience an aura before an attack.  Symptoms include tingling, numbness and vision changes.

The researchers utilized a handheld magnetic stimulation device, which is placed against the back of the head.  Two quick magnetic pulses are then produced by the device.

The study was conducted on 164 patients - half who used the real device, and half who used an identical-looking device, but which did not produce any magnetic pulses.  After two hours, 39% of the patients who used the real device were pain-free, compared to only 22% of the patients who used the fake device.

Source: ABC News

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Small-Scale Study Shows Promise with Alzheimer’s Patients Treated with Magnetic Therapy

Posted on September 29, 2010 by

The application of  magnets to the brains of Alzheimer's patients can help them better understand what is said to them, The Independent has claimed.  This news is based on a small-scale study of an experimental magnet therapy method called rTMS, which some believe has the potential to reorganize brain cells, resutling in improved neurologic function.

Over a period of four weeks, five patients were treated with rTMS, and five were treated with a fake treatment for two weeks, followed by two weeks of treatment with rTMS.  The rTMS was applied to the region of the brain known to be integral to speech and communication, which can become impaired due to Alzheimer’s disease. After two weeks, those patients treated only with rTMS displayed improvement in sentence comprehension. Those receiving the fake treatment did not show improvement. The fake group then improved a similar amount after two weeks of real rTMS.

Unfortunately, the method did not improve other language abilities, such as speaking, cognitive function, or memory function.  Also, the design of this small-scale study means that it can't tell us about the long-term effects, or potential harmful side-effects from rTMS. While the use of rTMS in cases of dementia will be of interest to neuro-scientists, it should be viewed as an experimental technique until large-scale, longer-term studies can do further evaluation.

The study was carried out by researchers from the IRCCS Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli, and other educational and research institutes in Italy. The research was supported by a project grant from the Italian Ministry of Health and the Associazione Fatebenefratelli per la Ricerca (AFaR) research foundation.  It was published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry.

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Magnetic Therapy May Be Useful for Hard-to-Treat Depression

Posted on September 28, 2010 by

Using magnetic fields to stimulate the brain may alleviate depression in some people who have not had results from antidepressants, new research has found.

Researchers administered magnetic therapy to half a group of 190 adults who had suffered from depression for a period of at least three months, but less than five years, and who had taken prescribed medicine for depression, but did not see any results. The other half was given a sham treatment - simulated magnetic therapy that was not distinguishable from the actual therapy, the researchers said.

After three weeks, about 14% of the patients who were receiving magnetic therapy were no longer depressed, compared with only 5% of those who were receiving the sham treatment.

The researchers continued the magnetic treatment for three additional weeks for those who remained depressed, and offered the real treatment to the participants who'd received the fake treatment.

After that three week period, about 30% were no longer depressed, according to the researchers.

"We have settled a fundamental question about (TMS) therapy, which is, 'Does it work?'" said the lead author of the study, Dr. Mark George, a professor of psychiatry, radiology and neuroscience at the Medical University of South Carolina. "The answer is 'yes.'"

"In a rigorous, industry-free multi-site trial, with a convincing sham, we found unambiguously that TMS worked better than the sham. It's watershed," George stated.

The findings of the study are published in the May issue of Archives of General Psychiatry.

Source: US News

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