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Definition: Magnet therapy is based upon the idea that magnetic fields have the ability to help the body heal or simply relieve pain. Most often, pseudoscientific support is offered by claiming that magnets affect the iron in our blood, but that iron is non-ferrous, which means that it does not react to mangetic fields! Moreover, many of the magnets you will find used in magnetic therapy are of the same type used with refrigerator magnets. But these magnets aren't even strong enough to have an affect through the thickness of our skin, much less the various pouches they are typically held in. Needless to say, there is no reliable, repeatable, controlled scientific evidence that magnets have any medicinal value.
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