“Energy bracelets” are all the rage these days, and frankly, a total waste of money. From Sunny FL, I give the straight scoop on these products.
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68 Responses for Energy Bracelet Scams Reviews
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January 21, 2011 05:07 pm
Hi Will, "The mind is a powerful thing" to waste. I can't help but marvel at the absurdity of the this product! You're right though, entities of this sort have been around for many years, props to you!! Great site, and thanks for the heads up about the creatine "in the hot water to completely desolve it"! I tell all my friends at the health club, especially when I see them downing a container, "on the exercise floor", with all kinds of stuff at the bottom. Thanks again, and three cheers for Florida love, I'm from Minnesota, so anytime of year in Florida, is like heaven!! See you at the top!!
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January 21, 2011 06:17 pm
Hi Will….how about an article on inflammation and ,more specifically, the latest news on dietary anti-inflammatories.
Inflammation seems to be closely connected with a host of health issues, in particular the joints-of concern to trainers or older people. I have got great relief for knee soreness by swigging cod liver oil ( about half a liter per ten days or so).
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January 21, 2011 08:46 pm
Will! You're not trying to burst my bubble or something, are you? Does this mean that Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny are next? What about my entitlements and free ride in life? Not those, too! Oh, well, I like bursting bubbles, too, truth be told.
I would like to see you do some scouting on how Arimidex is working for men. I see very small doses of 0.5 mg and 0.25 mg which are likely compounded. 0.5 per day is supposed to boost T by about 50% and reduce E by about 50%. But many take it every other day or ever few days. I'd like to know what they get for results and if side effects have been an issue. there is some info on the net but not enough info still. You'd be a good source to see what you can find since for men, keeping E down and T up in good range is important and you have always supported blood tests which I take, too.
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April 08, 2012 06:32 pm
do this boost energy braclets work better than power balance
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January 21, 2011 09:43 pm
Fully agree with you. A few years ago you wrote " the two most abundant things in the Universe are Hydrogen and Stupidity" you're deadly right. Pedro
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January 21, 2011 11:53 pm
Hey Will:
Another great article. Thanks
Your t-shirt in that video has 'Vitaminwater' written across the front. Your not
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January 22, 2011 08:35 am
Nice video Will

The company that produces those bracelets "Power Balance" has admited them to be a total scam after its been sued by customers, it has been obliged to pay a big fine, and all clients that feel that they have been scamed can return their bracelets and have their money refunded.. that has happened allready in Australia and Italy at least.
Anyway i dont see how anybody bought them in the first place.. and i can tell you i see the gym where i workout filled with people wearing them.. true suckers !!-
December 29, 2011 08:45 pm
Merry Christmas Power Bracelet.
It’s hard to know if they really work. I saw them for the first time in the mall while looking for stocking stuffers. I decided to get my wife the pink one because it’s her favorite colour and it did look kind of cool. It would go with her new pink slippers with the racing stripes. The girl at the kiosk started going on about how they could change everything in her life including balance, stability and all around good health. Bla bla bla …..SOLD to the last minute shopper! It was thirty bucks plus tax and I’m already in deep with self-help. Paid fifty bucks for a book on dealing with Menopause.
Anyhow Christmas morning she put it on, along with the slippers, and she went nuts! Running around the house cleaning, did all the laundry, cooked the turkey by noon and had the tree put away as well. By mid-afternoon she thought she could fly, and was walking the railing on our balcony. To her annoyance, I pushed her off and down she went eight floors like a lead balloon . So much for stability and balance, although in all fairness to the bracelet, it was icy and looking back she could have slipped. In disbelief due to what I was told by the girl at the mall, I realized the bracelet must have malfunctioned. I rushed down only to find her reaching for it on the sidewalk. Nothing short of incredible! It had fallen off, and absorbed her impact. She survived! She broke both her legs and her pelvis bone. I was able to put it back on her wrist, and astonishing as it is, she was able to walk to the ambulance with no assistance. I called my brother on the way to the hospital and told him the staggering news. As I was telling him how he should get one, he was suggesting I get a lawyer.
Christmas day 2011 in emerge. Oh well, could be worse I suppose. Yet, I used the down time, as an opportunity to research this new found item. As I surf the web to find allegations of fraud and deceit by its manufactures, I find myself in the crossfire of this belief vs. non-belief.
As I write this blog, she still has the bracelet on and doesn’t seem to be in a lot of pain. Spirits are high, however the nurse said it’s due to the pain killers in the IV drip, along with the perk I slipped her in the waiting room (Truly a critic of the bracelet?). We tried to put on her hospital tag, but my wife was afraid she could get a reaction with the two different types of bracelets. She had a point. I did read that you need to be careful when mixing meds, so we opted out for now, and are waiting for the doctor’s opinion.
So far that power bracelet appears to be holding true. Or is it? Could it have been a placebo effect, the slippers, the drugs, divine intervention, or just another good old fashion Christmas miracle? One thing holds true … it’s not the book. She hadn’t even opened that gift yet.
We’ll keep everyone posted on her well-being, and our further testing of this new found item. Too early to be pushed, or shall I say in my defence, ‘slipped’ to conclusions.
Signed
Almost convinced
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January 22, 2011 11:18 am
So, maybe you can scientifically debunk or explain Reikii, meditation, ESP and flying saucers? Oh, and then there's religion and prayer and how a sugar pill can provide better curative results than a trial drug?:p
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January 22, 2011 08:23 pm
You seem to miss the point. What is the "science" behind Reikii and meditation? Do they have benefits? Can science prove they don't? So if someone "believes" a copper bracelet or a hologram bracelet makes their life easier, so what? Their belief versus yours. Rekeii hasn't had to produce science nor has meditation. Whether the bracelet people claim science or not, can you scientifically prove they don't have any benefit whatsoever?
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January 22, 2011 08:35 pm
Sure! What's your scientific proof in those references you give?:
http://www.watoday.com.au/small-business/research…. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4582282.stm http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11552201?dopt=….watoday – no conclusion or evidence given
newsbbc = both the fakes and the magnet versions reported an improvement in their condition.
ncbi = positive result FOR the magnet versionSo your belief goes against the "science" you offer? wow!
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January 24, 2011 04:54 pm
Over time and through my discussions with friends and people in general, I've noticed that most don't seem to grasp what scientific back-up actually means. Most people don't seem to understand that relevance of peer-reviewed studies or the relevance of proper study designs. I recall being told by a friend of mine, after mentioning a study on substance X, pointing to the relevance of said substance to a particular aspect of health, that quote : '' we have no idea who conducted that study to begin with – that might as well be a no-name in his basement who uploaded a bunch of BS on to the web.'' I had to pinch myself when I heard him say that. That just showed me how many people have no appreciation of what scientific processes involve.
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January 24, 2011 07:10 pm
Exactly! And in many cases the only "evidence" to support or disprove a claim is emprical, user-based reports (such as in Reikii and meditation). However, when one of the "scientific" studies presented to support the nay-sayer's opposing viewpoint concludes: The application of a device delivering static magnetic fields of 300 to 500 Gauss over a pain trigger point results in significant and prompt relief of pain in postpolio subjects. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9365349?dopt=Citation
Which is completely contrary to the nay-sayer's statement. It makes one wonder how much value science has in other beliefs and claims put forward as "scientific".
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January 24, 2011 07:11 pm
Luckily we don’t even have to resort to scientific proof. Common sense is in 98.7% (+ / -) 1.3% of cases more than enough. If it sounds too good to be true it is usually false. The placebo effect however is a true effect initiated by belief. That is why clinical trials for drugs have to surpass the placebo effect to be judged effective. Science doesn’t claim to know everything pseudoscience on the other hand knows nothing. With nonsensical and ineffective treatments like faith healing, homeopathetic remedies, chiropractic manipulations, dowsing, any religion and of course energy gadgets there maybe in many cases a real belief by the practitioners that; what they do actually works and by this reckoning are actually doing good. This is feed of course to satiety by anecdotal evidence, selective memory, wishful thinking, slippery arguments and unhealthy doses of irrationality. Will made an excellent point in saying the burden of proof lies with the claimant. Perhaps we could add the fact that you cannot disprove something that does not exist. This holds true for power bracelets, reiki, god or the spaghetti monster.
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January 28, 2011 01:04 pm
98.7% ??? That's a scientifically proven statistic? Sounds more like a conjecture!
And chiropractic is fake? Yet the trials done by the AMA (scientifically or empirical) showed that chiropractic treatment gave more positive benefits than "real doctor" treatment for back injuries. . .
So, if the users report benefits, for you, empirical evidince is insufficient? And dowsing? I lived in a waterless area but a dowser, in a matter of days of walking the land pinpointed an artesian source . . . I guess "belief" made the water flow there?
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January 25, 2011 11:23 am
Marketing is a wonderful thing. Too bad it is abused by fly by night charletons. Like you said,"there's one born every minute". I just need to get 130,000 of these idiots to pay off my mortgage. And if I make my story interesting enough, I'll retire early.
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January 29, 2011 12:30 pm
You could always run a raffle for $1 a ticket with a limit of 130,000 tickets. Make it an energy bracelet as first prize! When the winner complains that it didn't work, you simply refund him or her the $1 they invested and you'll still have $129,999.
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January 26, 2011 01:08 am
I don't know if this is ironic or not – you're wearing a Vitamin Water t-shirt in the video – what's your take on that? Some consider products like that to be overpriced junk.
On a more serious note – thanks for the supplement info – like creatine in warm/hot water. You recommend a micronized Creapure product – correct? Which I think Optimum has.
Also – what's your thoughts on taking BCAA powder in your during w/o water bottle?
1 last thing – glutamine – the L type or the peptide/fancy named stuff?
Thanks in advance for your expertise.
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February 10, 2011 08:54 pm
The following time I learn a weblog, I hope that it doesnt disappoint me as much as this one. I mean, I know it was my choice to learn, however I actually thought youd have one thing fascinating to say. All I hear is a bunch of whining about one thing that you could possibly repair if you werent too busy in search of attention.
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February 26, 2011 05:44 pm
I’m 55, 5.8 and weight 190. I’m in good shape but would like to lose 10 pds. A friend talked to me about,
1androsterone and 4-ad, and I would like to know what benefits or effects these supplements might have on me, or if I should even consider them?Thank you
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February 28, 2011 08:18 pm
I’m deaf. Can you provide transcripts ?
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June 11, 2011 02:03 pm
3:20 of my life I will never get back plus the time to type this reply. Dude, all you did is talk and show a pan of an empty beach. Where is the hard evidence that you are right and they are full of B.S.? Nice to know you strong opinion about these power bracelets, but if you are going to bad mouth and dissent, at least back it up with something other than bad sound and an empty beach.
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June 11, 2011 04:23 pm
And 5 mins of mine I wont get back responding Ed. As said above, The burden of proof is on those who make the claims, which = it’s they who have to support their products with objective science, or stop making the claims. There is no real science to these products, and that’s not an opinion, simply the realty of the situation. I use science where it exists, and call out those who don’t period. I don’t have to supply hard evidence they don’t work, “they” have to supply hard evidence they do work. That’s how science works. The products are a scam period.
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June 15, 2011 01:10 pm
You’ve got great insights about energy, keep up the good work!
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July 02, 2011 04:51 pm
…sounds like a blind man who is talking about colours. Recommendation: to read outside of your field of interest, so you know what you are talking about Will. Maybe remind yourself who were the founders of science, people such as Paracelsus, Aristotle, Pythagoras and others, and maybe read some of their books, that will open your eyes to a couple of things. Read some basic physics, anatomy and biology books as well. Plus the amount of modern scientific research done into bioenergetics and all kinds of other energy research is outstanding with the most stringent statistical analyses employed, you clearly have no idea what you are talking about Will. Don’t listen to the man who doesn’t know people. Study the evidence yourselves.
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July 02, 2011 05:37 pm
What evidence? Instead of trying to baffle us with your pseudo intellectual BS, supply some actual peer reviewed published evidence that any such products work as claimed using said product(s) specifically.
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July 12, 2011 01:34 am
Hi wil… lets try the only bands in the world that work….Energycare
Please contact me and I will love to challenge you up on that offer
All the best valerio
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July 12, 2011 07:45 am
That’s a joke right? That brand is a waste of $$$ like all the rest. Don’t spam on my site. As to my offer, you know and I know you wont do it, but if you actually wish to fund a real clinical study, you can contact me on that, and I will set it up. Won’t be holding my breath on that one….
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July 12, 2011 07:55 am
we are ready for your challenge ,!!!!! i sent you a message with my cell #…..i will make I myself will fly you into pitsburgh…..with my own money to see the tests and to show you science behind them……all other bands are fakes…. You missed 1… used by jay Cutler… ronnie coleman … and Phil heath…. Energycare…. we might not even use the bands to do the tests…. we wanna use the pillows that energycare has made….
Lets start… BIG V
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July 13, 2011 01:21 pm
Trust me even Jay Cutler is laughing his ass off he told me himself….show this guy why he even has his own signature series bands …. and its not cause he makes any money from these guys … its because they work… if you think its these power balance power core energy armour bands that they sell in the mall guess again ….just remember i didnt warn YOU!!… i cant wait for you to appoligize to jay ronnie and phil bruno gervais..of the tampa bay lighting…max talbot of the pitsburgh penguins… and also paul pearce of the boston celtics…. all these guys have signature bands…..THEY WOULD NEVER PUT THERE NAME ON SOMTHING THATS A SCAMM!!!!!!!
im still waiting for your call i left you my cell number and if you dont wanna call cause its long distance i will gladly call you… i dont have a problem with that
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July 13, 2011 01:54 pm
Call Steve from Energycare he is waiting for your call. I gave you a number since you didn’t wanna give me yours …
724 856 1586
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November 27, 2012 10:47 am
Follow up, as expected, no studies were ever sent to me. No studies ever published in a legit peer reviewed journal (as far as I know, feel free to send if anyone has such a thing), no follow up, etc from the company above that claimed all manner of actual real science to support their claims and product. Per usual, a fluster oh noise in an attempt to get my off the track, then gone. Seen it before in my 20 + years in the biz, will see it again.
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July 29, 2011 12:32 am
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October 21, 2011 07:48 am
You can certainly see your expertise in the work you write. The world hopes for more passionate writers such as you who aren’t afraid to say how they believe. Always go after your heart.
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December 19, 2011 03:00 am
i rlly didnt care like most ppl i buy them because they look cool and are fun to wear. of course it wont give energy golly doesnt mean you gotta rebuke it.
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March 29, 2012 10:52 pm
Hi Will, my name is also Will. I have tried the magnets and the energy bracelets. And I am not a person that is influnced by the placebo effect. I have tried different things for awhile because some companies say you have to wear them for months be for you to feel the affects. I am the type of person that will give anything a try. And I have wasted a lot money in doing so. I have found something that actually works for balance. Since I have been getting older my balance is really off. This is a company that is worth checking out, and find out why is it different. Don’t take my word for it. Like you I have to prove it to myself. Active Energy. ActiveEnergylife.com . After you check it out I would Appricate your feed back. Signed, Will
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April 08, 2012 06:46 pm
“I am not a person that is influnced by the placebo effect” Of course you are, everyone is, but thinks they are not. You might find some of the other posts here, with my and others responses, worth reading as it gives some insights.
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April 08, 2012 06:33 pm
is it worth it to buy it
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April 08, 2012 06:47 pm
Did you watch the video?
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November 27, 2012 12:52 pm
his volume must have been turned off!
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May 15, 2012 01:15 am
Sales people are in it for the buck. They too know it’s bull and really don’t care if it helped or not. I would imagine that sales guy should at least be wearing one himself if he really believed in the product.
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May 16, 2012 09:17 pm
Its funny how people bash certain placebo items, then turn around and sell one of their own. If you would like to complain, thats fine, do it; but when you wanna make money by complaining all the time, go to school to earn a degree in the approved field to earn the title of a CRITIC! Selling your products by complaining about others products is not the best way to go about it! Who am I? I’m just a working class american paying my taxes and voicing my opinion. Have a good day!
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November 27, 2012 12:50 pm
Hey Will,
Saw some guy on ‘shark tank’ trying to get some funding for an energy watch. I thought Mark Cuban was going to come unglued,he all but threw a punch at this guy, it was really funny, maybe they’ll have it on STUPIDEST PRODUCTS ON SHARK TANK!!!-
November 27, 2012 01:09 pm
An energy watch? Gotta admit, it’s a great idea for a scam!
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December 15, 2012 10:02 pm
They’re all a bunch of SCAMS!
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