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Have you heard that the benefits that people get from magnets is just the placebo effect?

placebo – a substance containing no medication and prescribed or given to reinforce a patient’s expectation to get well.

placebo effect – a reaction to a placebo manifested by a lessening of symptoms or the production of anticipated side effects.

I recently saw an episode of the old TV show M.A.S.H. where the doctors didn’t have any morphine to give their patients for their pain after surgery.  They decided to make sugar pills to give the patients and hope that the placebo effect would get them through until a new shipment of morphine arrived.  The mind can do amazing things if we let it, or cause it to think it should.

When talking about magnets I sometimes hear that they don’t really do anything.  Any supposed benefit is just the placebo effect.  If I have a headache what do I care if the  “lessening of symptoms” is because of a placebo effect or because of drugs masking the pain?  I just want the headache gone.  The thing with the magnet, placebo or otherwise, is that there aren’t any side-effects either.

So, the next time you use your magnetic patches or magnetic insoles to take care of a problem and someone tells you that it is a placebo, just say “So what!”.

Wayne Woodworth
Magnets are a placebo? The pain is still gone.

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Nikken has a new organic skin care line called True Elements. The previous line was call Swiss SoFlower and my wife really liked it, so she has been content to use up what she had before getting the new skin care products. Now that she is using them she likes them even more than the previous line.

The line consists of six products: a face wash, toner, day cream, night cream, exfoliating masque, and contour serum that are all certified organic by EcoCert.

The products have been getting rave reviews from the other distributors that I have heard talk about it.  The feedback that means the most to me though is my wife’s because she doesn’t have a vested interest in the product.  Her comments are that “it smells good and leaves my face feeling soft”.  What more could you want from your skin care.

Wayne Woodworth
Independent Nikken Wellness Consultant

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