Do Phiten Necklaces work?

The placebo effect is a very powerful thing. If you can trick your mind into thinking that this gimmick will make it feel better, it will. If you know it's just a stupid, overpriced necklace, it won't work. Bottom line: there's no chance that there's any real medical value to this thing. See also: Head-on

Yes they do work, and yes I have my white NAOKO TAKAHASHI Phiten necklace on right now. It never leaves my body.....NEVER. I've got the phiten gel, tape, shirt, everything.

Jason

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I'm a believer - definitely work.

Not sure bout the necklaces but the tape works wonders on sore achilles!! I guarantee it - placeboeffect or not - who cares it works

I'm not a necklace guy. Does anyone just wear it around home then take it off for work etc?

In a study published earlier this year in the journal Basic and Applied Social Psychology, about 75 percent of baseball players surveyed said they had some sort of superstition, and more than half had some ritual that they performed every game.

http://www.leaonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/s15324834basp2701_7

You people are tools.

"Used them"? How does one "use" them? You wear them on your wrist. They don't "do anything". They are just pieces of metal sitting on your wrist.

Titanium does not "rub off", folks. it would confer not health benefits if it could. Otherwise, we could all be ingesting titanium through some pill, powder or cream.

Why are people so incredibly gullible? Why are so many of you so incredibly stupid?

bored by morons wrote:

Why are people so incredibly gullible? Why are so many of you so incredibly stupid?

Same could be said about your religion.

Master of Class wrote:

The placebo effect is a very powerful thing. If you can trick your mind into thinking that this gimmick will make it feel better, it will. If you know it's just a stupid, overpriced necklace, it won't work. Bottom line: there's no chance that there's any real medical value to this thing. See also: Head-on

Drugs don't work either. In fact, nothing works.

Careful what you pooh-pooh. From the 1500s to the 1800s physicians and surgeons scorned the idea of antiseptics and didn't bother to wash their hands or put alcohol on wounds. After all, they were enlghtened men of science and knew there couldn't possibly be tiny little invisible devil-beasties causing infection and disease.

Well ha ha ha.

OK Mr Logic wrote:

Same could be said about your religion.

Since I am an atheist, no, it really couldn't.

Scotties hamburgers wrote:

Drugs don't work either. In fact, nothing works.

Careful what you pooh-pooh. From the 1500s to the 1800s physicians and surgeons scorned the idea of antiseptics and didn't bother to wash their hands or put alcohol on wounds. After all, they were enlghtened men of science and knew there couldn't possibly be tiny little invisible devil-beasties causing infection and disease.

Well ha ha ha.

Until the effects of cleanliness (or lack of it) were demonstrated to work. Demonstrations which were controlled and repeatable.

Drugs are tested the same way. Placebos are used to weed out those who are actually affected by drugs vs those who would THINK they are. Drugs go through so many tests, so many clinical studies and FDA reviews specifically to ward out the bullshit effects of peoples' natural desire to want to believe a magic pill can cure them.

If titanium worn against the skin could ever have some beneficial health effect upon the wearer, it would not be too difficult to demonstrate. Give us a peer-reviewed double blind clinical study with placebos to show us those effects and then you won't be a fool who bought into the latest craze. Really, just one will do.

In the meantime, go back to your astrology charts and your pyramids rooms.

Weren't Ronnie and Nancy Reagan running the country with astrology charts? If the Reagan's believed in astrology, so should the rest of us.

bored by morons wrote:

If titanium worn against the skin could ever have some beneficial health effect upon the wearer, it would not be too difficult to demonstrate. Give us a peer-reviewed double blind clinical study with placebos to show us those effects and then you won't be a fool who bought into the latest craze. Really, just one will do.

In the meantime, go back to your astrology charts and your pyramids rooms.

Oooh, I'll bet you're a really serious Scientist! (It's science, ma!)

'Peer-reviewed double blind clinical study with placebos...'

Oooh, impressive gobbledegook you got there. Bet you're at least a B+ student at that state college you go to.

bored by morons wrote:

"Used them"? How does one "use" them? You wear them on your wrist. They don't "do anything". They are just pieces of metal sitting on your wrist.

Titanium does not "rub off", folks. it would confer not health benefits if it could. Otherwise, we could all be ingesting titanium through some pill, powder or cream.

Why are people so incredibly gullible? Why are so many of you so incredibly stupid?

Oh right. And electrical power lines can't cause cancer and neither can clean nuclear explosions.

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Jimper Sanson wrote:

Oooh, impressive gobbledegook you got there. Bet you're at least a B+ student at that state college you go to.

Bet you didnt graduate from high school.

Nice punctuation Ms Educated.

Nice punctuation yourself, genius. Forget a period, did we? Don't worry though. I'll just chalk it up to the fact that it is a message board and you didn't think that it mattered.