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http://www.qray.com/
Has anyone actually tried one of these things.
Has anyone actually tried one of these things.
Q Ray Braclet
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Quackwatch
http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/PhonyAds/qray.html
Federal Trade Commission Challenges Claims That the “Balance Bracelet” Relieves Pain
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2004/05/maverick.htm
http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/PhonyAds/qray.html
Federal Trade Commission Challenges Claims That the “Balance Bracelet” Relieves Pain
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2004/05/maverick.htm
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Ha. Thanks.
But the 5$ to 15$ ones from Chinatown or Little India in Toronto. They've been making such bracelets for centuries, maybe millennia. Traditionally made from copper, silver or seven metals mixed together, some have magnets as well(lodestone in centuries past). They are used for local relief of joint pain. I would geustimate it works in about 30 -40% of those who try it. 200$ is robbery, pretending to have invented this stuff is comical.
We should start and pin a thread on arthritis. I have had really good results with getting rid of coffee and eating alot of omega-3 and 9 with glucosamine, methylsufonylmethane MSM, and about 1200 iu of vitamin E a day. My immune response to my joints has really dropped.
We should start and pin a thread on arthritis. I have had really good results with getting rid of coffee and eating alot of omega-3 and 9 with glucosamine, methylsufonylmethane MSM, and about 1200 iu of vitamin E a day. My immune response to my joints has really dropped.
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Don't underestimate the psychological benefits, the body is a weird thing.
I'd never pay $200 for one, or even $30, but if you can find a cheap one in Chinatown or a Balti Triangle and you actually believe in the stuff it might have benefits.
I'd never pay $200 for one, or even $30, but if you can find a cheap one in Chinatown or a Balti Triangle and you actually believe in the stuff it might have benefits.
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You can recharge your braclete under the same pyramid that keeps your razor blades sharp! ;D
As irritating as it is alot of this tin foil hat stuff turns out to be true. Maybe 30%, which is actually too much to be automatically discounted.
The best example I can think of is from India, around 1000BC. There smallpox was worshipped as a goddess who took revenge for peoples sinful activities. One of the ways of propitiating her involved taking the pus from smallpox sores and storing it for a year, then taking the crystallized pus and putting it under the skin with a needle.The BWIA (British West India Company) documented this Ayurvedic cure extensively and many relied on its efficacy. Nowadays we understand microbiology and why such a treatment would work. Back then it was superstitious mumbo-jumbo, but that didn't prevent it from working almost as well as modern vaccination.
This is a representation of the smallpox Devi. Just because priests smeared ashes on thier forehead and muttered sacred Mantras didn't make the innoculations ineffective.
The best example I can think of is from India, around 1000BC. There smallpox was worshipped as a goddess who took revenge for peoples sinful activities. One of the ways of propitiating her involved taking the pus from smallpox sores and storing it for a year, then taking the crystallized pus and putting it under the skin with a needle.The BWIA (British West India Company) documented this Ayurvedic cure extensively and many relied on its efficacy. Nowadays we understand microbiology and why such a treatment would work. Back then it was superstitious mumbo-jumbo, but that didn't prevent it from working almost as well as modern vaccination.
This is a representation of the smallpox Devi. Just because priests smeared ashes on thier forehead and muttered sacred Mantras didn't make the innoculations ineffective.
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It's not the possibility of beneficial side effects (even psychosomatic ones) that is being discounted, it's the overdone marketing hype in lieu of credible peer-reviewed science that's being called into question. To compare to traditional examples, it doesn't matter what's in the in bottle, or whether the alcohol-based 19th Century potions cured anything or just helped you care less about your condition, snake-oil sales pitches are just that: sales pitches. And society has learned to be wary of enthisiatic salesmen who avoid critical examination of their wares.
On the site they never even say what the bracelets actually do. Other than some guy saying it improved his golf swing. Traditionally they are only good for arthritis or joint pain in the wrist. If you have no pain the bracelet is simply jewelry.
But how can you disagree with this:
"Oh my gosh this bracelet has changed my life!!! My mother-in-law had been wearing your bracelet for a year and convinced me to get one. Oh my gosh, A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!"
Susan Von Achen
San Mateo, CA USA
But how can you disagree with this:
"Oh my gosh this bracelet has changed my life!!! My mother-in-law had been wearing your bracelet for a year and convinced me to get one. Oh my gosh, A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!"
Susan Von Achen
San Mateo, CA USA
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Yes Beach...just imagine if we all bought all of the gadgets on television and believed that they all did what they eluded to doing...what a pile of junk we would havebeach_bum said:It's the same way with the commercials. We have been laughing over this for a while now. They never actually state what it is they do! It just changes your life! :A lot of things will change your life.
HL
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I never knew how easy it was to write with my opposite hand! Thanks to arm-remover-5000 my life has been changed in so many ways!beach_bum said:It's the same way with the commercials. We have been laughing over this for a while now. They never actually state what it is they do! It just changes your life! :
