Surprised there isn't more discussion here of..... magnets
I've been experimenting with the Alex Chiu magnet ideas for years now. I've never bought the prefab ones, just bought rare earth magnets online. One thing I will say first off is I've never cared for the foot brace design layed out on the site. If you put two magnets side by side with the same north/south polarity they will repel. How then can you have them side by side taped together and expect that to work? Anyone who has done the 4 magnets per foot method has most likely had both north and south magnetic action going on on each foot it seems to me. So the solution for me has been to buy 4" magnets, which when it comes to rare earth can be fairly expensive, but still quite reasonable considering the powerful effects they can have on your well-being. Pretty simple stuff but just wanted to get that out of the way. Another thing to keep in mind when buying magnets yourself is which two sides of the magnet have been magnetized. It isn't always the sides you think and once you have them it can be difficult to figure out as they just seem to pull together from any side due to their high power. A good site will tell you which sides are magnetized in the item description. I had good luck with magnet4less.com. What kind of results have I had? Well I believe the magnets enhance the "inner you". Whether that is something you want probably varies from person to person. The fact for me is that they enhance blood flow. My foot is actually injured right now and I feel a difference immediately when I put a couple magnets on it. Suddenly my inner chi is able to break through the damaged tissue or however Alex puts it and my foot feels like my foot again, albeit still not healed, but perhaps able to heal better/faster? I don't know about living forever (except that it doesn't seem to have happened for any of the other 60 billion people or so who have walked the earth), but there is power in using magnets as Alex lays out on his site. My thinking is much clearer and focused with the magnets also. Why aren't more people using these things? One other thing I will add is that you can't just eat anything and succeed with the magnets. I've also been vegetarian (notice I don't say "a" vegetarian, I feel it is silly for someone to eat meat for most of their life and expect everyone to take their dietary change that seriously) for several years and developed severe deficiencies. The magnets probably helped me get through that (and unfortunately gave me a false sense of wellness) but they didn't cure my b12 or magnesium deficiencies. Okay that is quite enough for a first post I'd say.

have you experimented with placing magnets on other fingers? I suspect that Alex's pinky requirement is not necessary.

I think he said he already tried and the pinky is best because it has meridians flowing to the heart.I don't understand why people want to go vegetarian if I wanted to eat healthy or detox I would go a raw diet and eat sushi,nuts and maybe egg yolk for protein.

I think Alex is right that the pinky fingers and big toes are the "hot spots" on their respective limbs. I think you can put magnets across the span of your fingers as your toes, hand braces if you will. It's just a lot harder to put up with, even when sleeping. Another observation would be that the closer the magnet is to the skin the stronger the effect. I have thin 2" magnets that I can have on my toes wearing shoes. Once you start doing that, wearing magnets all the time, it can become very addictive. I've heard of a magnetic insole that new agers use or something. I doubt it is anywhere near as strong as what I'm doing. These are the magnets I have currently. http://www.magnet4less.com/product_info.php?cPath=1_5&products_id=285 http://www.magnet4less.com/product_info.php?cPath=1_5&products_id=78 They come much more powerful of course, I wonder when it would become too much. The 4" are strong enough that they are uncomfortable directly on the toes and can hurt like hell when they pinch. I made my braces out of a wooden dowl and a piece of wood from Lowes, only cost a few dollars. Wood glue to hold it together so no metal, and packing tape to hold the magnets in place. I recommend anyone who buys rare earth magnets of any significant size to put some tape over them immediately. I use packing tape or even athletic coaches tape to help keep them from shattering and to make it easier to separate them. For me vegetarianism is a sort of indulgence, something I do because I can. I often feel I'm getting away with something when I'm amongst "the people" because I don't put myself through the trouble of eating meat. For me eating meat was always combined with eating a lot of carbs to offset it. I couldn't have a burger without fries, fish on a bun, lots of pop, that sort of thing. Without the meat, I just eat less in general, and still seem to have plenty of energy, though I operate at a lower level than most, a slow burner if you will.

I'm thinking about getting some powerful neo magnets casue I need to replace my old neo fb's they will be even more powerful than those on the site you listed.

I read on the older forum here I think that the + power exerted on the right side of the body using the magnets as Alex recommends is dangerous because that energy is not understood or something, this was coming from someone who tried to come off as an authority on the matter. Anyway he or she did approve of the - energy on the left, for whatever reason. I have been using magnets only on the left side (my feet) for the past few days and have had good results. Maybe my left side is unnaturally weak and needs the extra attention or there is something to the notion that using the magnets on the right is to be done in moderation only if at all. What do you think?

Well you say you are using just on your left side and had good results, what kind of good results did you get that you weren`t getting when wearing also on your right ?

I believe it has actually been good for my heart. I know how this sounds, but the first or second night I did it (working with the magnets on, not sleeping), I had some minor chest pain, but not the kind that concerns me. It is the kind of pain I associate with the strengthening of blood flow in an area that had been suffering, as though a clog was being pushed away (it's not like I've been an angel with my food choices in my life). I've felt better the past few days in a quite generic sense. I seem to be more patient, I think the magnets can heighten your senses to the point that interacting with other people can be difficult but I haven't felt that lately. But I'm always doing other things too, like continuing to try and make my living space more, well, livable. And taking quite a bit of magnesium and b12. I think it is definitely worth the experiment. There is something very different about the power the magnets exert on the right side, the south to north flow or whatever. It's not like I don't plan on going back to that, but right now I'm just riding out the change going left only seems to be stimulating.

Thanks for the website - I have been looking into buying some neo magnets so as to increase the magnetic strength that I am using. I have been using the neo rings for a while now (well, actually, atm I am using my white rings again as my little munchkin has put them somewhere after 'raiding' our room). I actually wear my rings whilst I am sleeping, even the neo rings I wore whilst sleeping - I just don't have the time otherwise to do a healing session. No bad side effects here, just heaps of energy :wink: With regards to diet, while not being a vegetarian we don't eat a lot of meat. Since my partner and I started wearing them, our diet has completely changed. Funnily enough, this has been a sub-conscious decision, which has actually made the dietary change rather easy. I have put it down to the rings and the fact that we have wanted to become more healthy. Before wearing the rings, our diet was horrible - I'm not fat or anything like that (have never been fat) but now I am looking a hell of a lot better than I was before, if I do say so myself (other people comment as well, but I'm not one for taking a great deal of notice of what other people say or think). My partner was over-weight when we started wearing the rings. Since wearing them, he has lost a considerable amount of weight and has been very encouraged by this. He has found that he just isn't interested in junk food anymore. Shit, I have to get going - my kids are trying to kill each other at the moment :shock: Cheers! MD

They seem to enhance health and the pills do appear to make one look better. I wish he would do some independant studies though to find out some more exact information. It would be so easy but he instead just wants to use theory. This isn't the dark ages!

Here is a Grade N52 Neodymium disc magnet for the rings... You can't get any stronger than that (at least I have not found a stronger magnet that is of the exact dimensions that Alex uses in his ring). It has a pull force of up to 20 pounds, its also more corrosion resistant than the magnets that Alex uses. Coated with black nickel (better than regular nickel). http://www.kjmagnetics.com/proddetail.asp?prod=D84B&cat=168

Surprised there isn't more discussion here of..... magnet Magnets are what we should call an ummm.......sticky subject.

anybody know what grade comes in the neodymium rings?