Phi-Ten 30X Titanium Bracelet: Ask your doctor if PLACEBO™ is right for you!

bmjames

#1 – 6:56 AM January 12, 2009

How dare you question the effectiveness of my titanium necklace? I'm going to put on my titanium foil hat now, so you can't get inside my head with your horrible reasoning!

SeppTB

#2 – 7:11 AM January 12, 2009

I broke my collarbone, and after 2 weeks of applying misery and air the bone began to connect, and after 6 weeks of the same treatment, it healed! Though I'm sure spending money on this stuff would have made the whole process much more enjoyable.

Bugs

#3 – 7:48 AM January 12, 2009

When I fractured two bones in my left arm, I decided to apply SCIENCE!(TM) and did an experiment where I learned to juggle three balls in my right hand.

After just six weeks of right-handed juggling, my fractured left arm had completely healed! When I explained the basis of my miriacle cure to my doctor as she removed the cast she'd insisted I wear, she was visibly moved. Incredulous, even.

Juggling: makes you sexier* and shown by SCIENCE!(TM) to cure all ills!

*Possibly just to other jugglers. But it's ok, because they've been made sexier too.

AirPillo

#4 – 8:03 AM January 12, 2009

Titanium is, indeed, insoluble in water.

Salts of metals, however, usually are. How do you think your body absorbs the "iron" necessary in your diet?

... not that I think this isn't bullshit, of course, but the above was a very poor reason to choose for calling it bullshit.

Joel Johnson

#5 – 8:13 AM January 12, 2009

@AirPillo: Good point.

Hank

#6 – 8:31 AM January 12, 2009

And then we recall that metallic sodium burst into flame in the presence of water, but ionic sodium is necessary for life itself.

So perhaps metallic titanium and ionic titanium might have different magical properties.

bmjames

#7 – 9:03 AM January 12, 2009

I'm surprised they haven't made a big thing about there being titanium IONS(TM) in their water, because everyone knows that IONIC(TM) things have PURIFYING(TM) properties and are essential in every quack self-medication product these days.

13enster

#8 – 9:17 AM January 12, 2009

@#4 Actually, Iron metal is a typical source of dietary iron. It is oxidized to a useful form in the acidic environment of the stomach.

@#6 Ionic titanium and metallic titanium do have very different properties. Ionic titanium reacts with water to form TiO2, which is insoluble in just about everything and is the white stuff in common items such as paint, white out, and the goofy-looking sunscreen bodyguards used to put on their noses in the 80's. TiO2 is not bio-available, which means that ingesting it is a complete and utter waste of time.

Titanium: good for paint and golf clubs, not for eating or magic jewelry!

noen

#9 – 10:22 AM January 12, 2009

We need a better class of con artist. Couldn't they at least bother to learn the language?

Anonymous Anonymous

#10 – 11:14 AM January 12, 2009

Titanium metal and its compounds are mainly insoluble, even in stomach acid. Almost all Ti minerals are stable oxides or silicates. I wouldn't want to touch any artificial soluble form, like a chloride or nitrate, even if you could sythesize them.

Anonymous Anonymous

#11 – 11:31 AM January 12, 2009

Seems like a good proof of concept test for the 5-hour Titanium Plug...

Marshall

#12 – 6:14 PM January 12, 2009

I know a few folks from the martial arts community who swear by junk like this or various magnetic versions. I'm always disappointed when I see someone who could easily kill me with their bare hands defeated by their own wishful thinking.

Anonymous Anonymous

#13 – 7:46 PM January 12, 2009

Okay, not that it makes them any less of a scam, but a colloidal mixture is one where tiny particles of a material are held in suspension in a liquid. It is thus only possible in the first place with an insoluble substance.

Brad S.

#14 – 8:06 PM January 12, 2009

These things have been a big hit in the Japanese big leagues for a few years now, and it was interesting to see how quickly the fad passed from imported players like Daisuke Matsuzaka to non-Japanese major leaguers. I took note of the fact that nearly (if not) all of the players on Japan's team in the last World Baseball Classic were wearing these, and decided then and there to start wearing one as a fashion statement.

Then I saw how much they want for one! Yikes! They're cheaper on the website you have linked than I've seen here in Seattle, but there's a store downtown that "specializes" in them and they want way too much money for something that's no more than a piece of man-jewelry.

shuut

#15 – 7:53 PM January 13, 2009

these retails for about 20 bucks(converted) in Japan. It's all over China now and they added benefits such as anti-radiation to the ads.

Anonymous Anonymous

#16 – 8:59 PM January 31, 2009

@13enster: You are on target with your explanation of using titanium as whitening agents. It's called Titanium Dioxide which I made at a plant in Savannah, GA called Kemira. It is used in toothpastes, powdered sugar, paint, etc.

Anonymous Anonymous

#17 – 9:02 PM January 31, 2009

@shuut: Too bad the Japanese didn't have this anti-radiation necklace at Hiroshima.

Anonymous Anonymous

#18 – 8:50 PM August 21, 2009

What is the purpose of this posting? If you were writing an article for even TEEN Magazine you would at least be required to try the product. But you're satisfied with "Oh, look, isn't this dumb? Ha ha ha, other people are stupid."

I have had chronic back and neck pain for the past seven years and do yoga, use special pillows, get massages etc. but the most instant relief I've ever received was from using the Phiten tape. Which is, by the way, a Japanese product. I love the reasoning that a product used by professional athletes must be bunk. Sheesh!

Rob Beschizza

#19 – 4:17 AM August 22, 2009

The purpose of this posting is to point out that it's quackery, designed to take advantage of the gullible, like you.

Bill

#20 – 11:56 AM September 21, 2009

Are there any tests proving or disproving it? Seems like that would be the best place to start with the article. Most of the posts here seem to be on the same side of the writer, which is -- I've never heard of this, this can't be true, so let's make fun of it.

I'm not saying that it does work. But the point of view expressed seems to be just as loose as is being claimed by the product.