Ridecamp: [RC] magnetics

MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) places a human body into a very high pulsed
magnetic field to render a visual image of the internal structures.  This
process - in use since the 1980's - has proven to be totally safe.

You will note that no one who has received an MRI has ended up with five
arms or six ears or any other subtle or significant change in their
physiology.  If the pathetically weak static magnets (an MRI is millions of
times more powerful) used in these consumer magnetic products had a material
affect on the body, then in all probability, an MRI would be fatal, or at
least severely debilitating.

I'd use all of those lovely and shockingly expensive "therapeutic" static
magnets for captivating the imagination of children as they play with iron
fillings on a piece of paper...

Mike Sofen

-----Original Message-----
From:  Truman Prevatt
Subject: Re: [RC] [RC] shoes reopened...NOT; now magnetic boots

A time varying  magnetic field will cause a current in a conductor -
this is how a generator works. The blood is a conductor and hence you
will get a current and resulting heat in from a time varying magnetic
field.  This would probably promote circulation.

A static magnetic field has no such effect no matter the strength. The
magnets you put on are stationary magnets - unless of course they have a
battery involved or the unit plugs into the wall. However, a stationary
magnetic field will deflect a stream of charged particles passing
through it. The blood stream is a moving stream of charged particles.
Does this have an effect on circulation. I sure don't know.


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