Resizing magnetic bracelets

If you suffer from arthritis or repetitive strain in injury, a magnetic bracelet could make a positive difference to your life. And getting the size right for your magnetic bracelet when you buy one online should be a relatively straightforward task. That's if the bracelet is for you. But what if it's for someone else and you don't want them to know you're buying them a gift? Or what if you just make a mistake? It can happen. We're only human after all!

Well MPS is very considerate in that regard. Knowing - as they do - that you might have made an error, they very helpfully throw in a FREE links removal re-sizing tool, along with instructions on how to use it to remove links.

Of course, if you need to add links, you have to send it back. But people tend to err on the high side in practice. Anyway, it's a step in the right direction.

Luckily, not all bracelets need resizing. For example, Magnetic Products Store sells a range of expanding bracelets that you just stretch over your hand to put on. These are very good for people with arthritis or carpal tunnel syndrome because they have no fiddly clasp and are very easy to put on.

As you can see from the picture above these are very nice items to wear. In addition to the ease with which they can be put on and the strong (3000 Gauss) magnets, they are also pleasing to the eye and a joy to wear.

And while we're on the subject of bracelets without links, MPS also sells one-size-fits-all bangles.These can be futuristic steel like the one above, or those with a more historical look and feel like the copper bangle below.

You pays your money and you takes your choice!

Magnetic Bracelets and sports

As we're coming up to the beginning of the outdoor sports season (ignoring football and rugby), now seems like a good time to talk about bracelets and wristbands for athletes and the many enthusiastic amateurs who will be taking up sport in the not-too-distant future.

The trouble is, of course, that people who have been idle for so long, during the depths of winter, sometimes plunge themselves too suddenly and too deeply into their newfound enthusiasm for sporting activity and, in the process, do themselves that proverbial "mischief".

Even if you think you're being careful, it is quite possible to overdo it. That's why Magnetic Products Store offers a range of sports bracelets to help you.

One of the best is the plain but very good Super Prime™ silicone magnetic bracelet (top left) that comes with a luxury gift pouch. Here are some interesting facts about it:

• The band is ultra-soft, making it extremely comfortable.
• The silicone stands up to all weather conditions and cannot corrode or tarnish
• It is water resistent
• It is hypoallergenic - no metal comes into contact with your skin
• The magnets are embedded in the silicone
• No metal clasp to grapple with - just slip it over your wrist
• It is extremely strong - will not snap when putting in on. NEVER!!!

The Hi-Prime Silicone Magnetic Bracelet from IonTopia® (above right) is also very nice.

A Valentine's gift - less arthritis pain!

Osiris

In this posting I will not address the sceptics who doubt the effectiveness of therapy magnets for healing. I will instead move past that stage in the debate and address those who do believe. But I will also speak to the open-minded, as they are ignored all too often.

I have no doubts that those who have confidence in the curative powers of copper arthritis bracelets for men and women will no doubt be looking for a copper bracelet or magnetic therapy bracelet to ease their pain. Right now, we have been having a lot of cold weather here in England and everyone knows that the cold makes arthritis symptoms worse.

It must be very hard if you love someone suffering from arthritis, especially on St. Valentine’s Day, which is coming up in just four days time! But maybe you show them how much you love them with a gift that is not only beautiful but also potentially helpful to their problem?

How? By giving them a copper bracelet or magnetic therapy bracelet help them with the pain of their recurring ailment.

Adel Ladies Steel Bangle

Now, I will break my promise and address the sceptics. Okay maybe you are not quite convinced of the power of magnets for health. Maybe the thought of buying a copper bracelet for arthritis seems too much like plain, old-fashioned superstition. Okay, I won't try to convince you otherwise. But even if you believe that the effectiveness of copper bracelets for arthritis is a mere manifestation of the placebo, you cannot deny that the bracelets offered by the Magnetic Products Store are a pleasure to behold and carry with them that feelgood factor that a thing of beauty naturally possesess.

So forget those extra strong magnets and concentrate on the looks. These are best bracelets around if no other reason than because they look great! That's one truth that you cannot deny!

Magnetic bracelets versus winter blues

Magnetic Bracelets in winter

MPS™ VENUS' HEARTS Titanium Magnetic Bracelet

MPS™ VENUS' HEARTS Titanium Magnetic Bracelet

MPS™ VENUS' HEARTS
Titanium Magnetic Bracelet

Magnetic bracelets are probably the best way to beat the winter blues. Okay? That's it. You heard it here first. No need for pussyfooting around or telling this truth any obscure, roundabout, half-assed way. Just come right out with the truth. And that's the truth in a nutshell.

What am I talking about, you're probably wondering? Why am I talking such absolute rubbish? How can magnetic jewellery cure winter depression?

Well that's a fair question. How indeed? But let's rewind here. Let's think about what this here "winter depression" or "January blues" actually is. First of all, we're not talking about clinical depression, which is caused by factors on the inside of the brain - the brain being, after all, a physical object. No, this is more psychological depression, caused by environmental factors. And the specific environmental factor here is seasonal. But still, you're asking, how do magnetic bracelets and other such jewellery help us get over it?

Well, let's see now. Most of us have heard of Seasonal Affective Disorder, also known by that brilliantly witty acronym: SAD. We probably all have it in varying degrees and it is almost certainly hard-wired into our DNA. Animals have it too. That is why land animals hibernate, whilst birds migrate. Unfortunately, we human's can't do that. It just isn't practical. Neither our lifestyle nor our physiology allows it. Although evolution has probably burnt the desire to do so into our genes, other mutations have taken us beyond that and make us incapable of lasting through the winter without food. (Even if we can manage without magnetic jewellery.)

January Sales

MPS™ MEN'S TARENT Stainless Steel
& Germanium Magnetic Bracelet

So we have to find or develop strategies to get around it or, better still, to overcome it completely. Now to some extent we have already done so. Christmas, after all, is a celebration involving food and drink and family gatherings in the height of winter. Food, drink and family is a powerful combination for beating the blues - at least if one is family-oriented. And then after Christmas, we have the New Year, which in some cultures is even more important than Christmas. But January is still colder, usually even colder than December.

But how can magnetic bracelets make a difference? Well first of all, I am not talking about the therapeutic powers of magnetic bracelets. Rather I am talking about their psychological powers. Winter depression is a psychological condition, not a physical one. It is linkedto cold weather and short dark days. Now obviously we can't do anything about the weather except wear warm clothing and turn up the central heating. Nor can we make the days any longer. But we can make them brighter.

And by that, I don't mean turn on the lights, I mean we can wear bright, shiny, sparkling jewellery. And that's wear magnetic jewellery enters the picture. It is a lot cheaper than precious metals and gemstones, yet to the naked eye is is just as bright and stimulating. And right now, Magnetic Products Store has a January sale in progress in which some items are reduced by as much as 80%.

So if you're looking for a way to brighten up the cold, gloomy month of January, you've just found it.

Strength or beauty

I've been fighting a pitched battle with my fellow customers of magnetic bracelets as to what's more important: strength or beauty. I 'm not talking about Superman versus Wonder Woman here - although I know which one I prefer - I'm talking about the criteria for choosing which magnetic bracelet to buy.

Dan Brown's character Robert Langdon (of The Da Vinci Code fame) would have a field day discussing the symbolism here. So, indeed, would Umberto Eco - probably. The male versus the female principle. The Yin versus Yang. Mars versus Venus. I think you get the picture.

But surely, you say, magnetic bracelets have both. The magnets have the power to heal; the beauty of the bracelets have the power to soothe the eye.

Yes indeed. But when you have such a vast range to choose from - as you do if you buy from the Magnetic Products Store - then you have to decide what is important to you when making your decision which to buy.

My advice is always the same: buy what looks nice to you. Don't count the magnets. Don't measure their strength. And don't write a long rambling inquiry email - or even a short one - asking customer care to tell you which one is the strongest. That would be like asking a mother which of her children is the most intelligent.

By the one that looks nicest to you! And if you can't make up your mind, buy two or three.

Magnetic therapy challenges the sceptics

The blog of Magnetic Products Store has taken up the challenge of the sceptics, with a hard-hitting post about Wikipedia's article on magnet therapy, describing it as "one-sided."

Here's a short extract:

One of the good things about Wikipedia is that one can check the history of an article to see not only what was added and when, but also what was removed. And a search of that history is revealing. For example, it was pointed out a few months ago, in an addition to the Wikipedia entry, that one of the articles cited as evidence that magnetic therapy doesn't work, in fact contains the sentence: “For osteoarthritis, the evidence is insufficient to exclude a clinically important benefit, which creates an opportunity for further investigation.” (Emphasis added)

Unfortunately, this attempt to give balance to the Wikipedia article, was unceremoniously rebuffed. The qualifying sentence was removed from the Wikipedia entry by the person who controls the entry – even though the added sentence was only quoting from the same article that the main author of the Wikipedia entry had already cited! This too was pointed out, but the gatekeeper remained unmoved. There followed an amicable exchange in the discussion page in which the gatekeeper sought to bolster their case by citing a 2012 study on magnetic therapy in osteoarthritis.

The article also pointed out the absurd lengths that the sceptics will go to, in order to justify their position.:

“Perhaps subjects with magnetic bracelets subconsciously detected a tiny drag when the bracelets were near ferromagnetic surfaces (which are ubiquitous in modern life), and this distracted or otherwise influenced the perceived pain.”

The MPS blog then demolishes that argument:

This is even more outlandish. It implies that the subject, in a double-blind study, initially presumed that they did not have a real magnet, subconsciously discovered that they did and then subconsciously felt better because of that discovery! And this is considered more scientific than straightforward acceptance of the trial data at face value?

 This pretty much sums up the sceptics and their own lack of reason and rationality.

It appears that we have a little more to say. And say it, we shall.