Magnetic Anklets

While anklets can be fashionable and attractive, magnetic anklets function both as a form of fashionable apparel and as a form of magnetic therapy. Magnetic therapy is a popular New Age form of medicine which believes that wearing magnets will improve health.

Attempts to prove or disprove any relation of magnetism to health have met with skepticism from both sides. Proponents of magnetic therapy claim magnets increase blood flow by causing a magnetic attraction between the magnet and the iron in blood. Magnetic therapy advocates also propose that magnets function as pain relief by causing the body to produce higher levels of endorphins. However, scientific studies have yet to find a significant connection between magnetism and health, other than an apparent placebo effect. Specifically, scientists find that magnets used in magnetic jewelry, like magnetic anklets, does not even have a large enough magnetic field to cause any change in blood flow and other internal workings of the body.

Regardless of scientific findings, magnetic therapy is still popular among many people. Magnetic anklets can easily be purchased online on websites like www.MagneticTherapyMagnets.com, which also sells magnetic jewelry and other magnetic therapy products, like magnetic therapy wraps. Many magnetic jewelry products seem to be made out of hematite or stainless steel. Most are priced around the $10-$30 price range.

Magnetic anklets are advertised to relieve ankle, lower leg, and foot pain, including swelling in the surrounding area of the anklet. They are even described as being capable of speeding recovery from a sprain or fracture to nearby bones.