Some Cebuanos have their souls on their feet or shall we say their soles in their shoes. They carry on a lifestyle of wearing magnetic insoles. It is not because they are in pain or are sick. Magnetic insoles have ways of improving blood circulation, easing the stress when at work and enhancing endurance and energy throughout the day.
I wore magnetic insoles for three years whether at work, at play or just moving around. Like all believers of the therapeutic effects of magnets, I got attracted by its unusual way of healing and improving well-being. Drug-free and non-invasive, magnets have been proven to replace pain killers and surgery. So attracted was I with the therapeutic and well-being effects of magnets that I got stuck with a book called “The Pain Relief Breakthrough” by Julian Whitaker, M.D. and Brenda Adderly, M.H.A. It was a book that my gym instructor allowed me to have.
Magnetic insoles are pretty expensive but if you look at its therapeutic benefits, I thought of it as better than having to use balms, ointments, vitamins, food supplements or prescribed drugs when in pain. Yet as old as balms and ointments, magnets have long been used to cure maladies. Whitaker and Adderly wrote that healers in China, India, Egypt and Greece used natural magnets to treat and cure a variety of human ailments. Throughout the centuries magnets have been used to relieve pain.
It works.
The therapeutic effects of magnets is said to begin with the principle that the human body has electromagnetic forces and magnets help to align these forces when in pain or when disorder sets in. Researchers report that magnets help the body to heal itself by increasing blood flow and sending more oxygen and nutrients to the affected area.
Whitaker wrote that magnets have been used as therapy for various ailments for thousands of years but never have a place in Western medicine apparently because modern medicine has biases against therapies other than drugs and surgery. “Regardless, magnets are slowly creeping into common use for one reason: it works.”
It works for patients with arthritis because it reduces pain and allows them to get back into the swing of things. It allows migraine sufferers to end debilitating pain. It also reduces the pain and speeds the healing of injuries like tennis elbow, bursitis and tendinitis.
Further explaining how magnetic therapy works, Whitaker and Adderly said that electromagnetic fields speed up the healing of bone fractures and soft-tissue injuries to a remarkable degree. This was how I got to use magnetic insoles in the first place. I was trying to relieve pain from ankle injuries.
Other than injuries, magnets have also been proven to be effective in treating stress-related disorders like anxiety, insomnia and depression. These can similarly be effective among patients resistant to drugs.
It is because magnetic fields are not obstructed or reflected by bone or other impediments, these can reach structures deep in the body where heat, X-rays and other forms of energy cannot. In fact, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is possibly the most significant diagnostic tool since X-rays. A MRI procedure uses powerful magnetic forces to produce images without the use of radiation.
In application, therapeutic magnets only need to be placed on the sites that cause the pain. But the wearing of magnetic wristbands or insoles is more of a lifestyle. People like to wear one because of the way it enhances their well-being and when in exercise or jogging, magnets improve endurance because of the way it makes blood circulation efficient.
There is a precaution though. Magnets are not advisable for those who are pregnant, are in any form of medication or suffering from a chronic disease.
The next time you are in pain, don’t kill the pain with pain killers. Let the magnet of attraction heal you.