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Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022

Does a magnetic bracelet increase metabolism and promote fat breakdown?

Alexis Tereszcuk, Lead Stories

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A social media post making the claim contains a video that identifies components in the bracelet as "Far Infrared, Negative Ion Magents, Germanium," with the word magnets misspelled as "magents."

Zhaoping Li, a professor of medicine and chief of the division of clinical nutrition at UCLA, told Lead Stories that the theory of magnetic resonance came from certain types of Eastern medicine that assert special points on the body can be stimulated for various health reasons.

However, there is no evidence that the bracelets promote weight loss, she said:

"There is no scientific evidence that has proven that it is really helpful other than you may have a placebo effect. If you believe it works then it may work for you."

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