if you put a good size(maybe a bit bigger than fridge magnet) magnet where your kidneys are supposed to be it will attract all the iron in your body
2006-10-05 20:02:09 · 17 answers · asked by waterbear 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Magnet for such purpose should have inductivity of about 100 Tesla, which is far beyond any existing magnet, even electro-magnet.
There are some unproven informations that in CERN labs there are magnets of such inductivity, but they are very well insulated with lead sheets, so there is no danger for working personell in the lab, That magnets are used for accelerating atoms and their particles in special equipment, so You can't find it in a regualr stores.
Anyway, the human skin is a perfectly good insulator for magnetic field, so the NMR tomography device (for medical purpose) can only detect presence of iron in Your blood, but it cannot affect it. Inductivity of the magnet applied in that equipment is about 15 Tesla.
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2006-10-05 20:16:56 · answer #1 · answered by Vlada M 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's silly. Many people work near much stronger magnets and don't have all their iron go anywhere. When I was a kid, I played with cow magnets all the time and I'm pretty sure I would have killed myself with them if you could really do anything to the iron in your body that way. The iron in your body may be attracted to a very powerful magnet but not enough to move. Have you ever heard of MRI? It uses very powerful magnets but it's safe.
2006-10-05 20:08:54 · answer #2 · answered by Kuji 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Theres all these beliefs about being cured of illnesses with magnets and other stuff but studies have been made and magnets dont do jack. That includes attracting the iron in your body
2006-10-05 20:08:42 · answer #3 · answered by Mr. Felix 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Magnet therapy has been disproved as medically effective. If the iron in your body could be pulled by magnets, you would explode during an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging). As far as I know, that does not happen often...
2006-10-05 20:08:17 · answer #4 · answered by wuxxler 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No ! Sounds like that rumor might have got started by the fact that dairy cattle are feed big magnets to collect the iron particles they can pick up, so it does not injure one of their 3 stomachs.
And Electromagnetic therapy has been prov-en to be beneficial in some ailments such as bone fractures.
2006-10-05 23:20:02 · answer #5 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try it, it might work for you.
What is for sure is that far far stranger things have and will happen!
Lots of people like magnets, i like magnets. I dont think theyd heal me so much, but just playing with one makes me forget what was wrong with me in the first place lol. Out of mind out of .... something. Will power!
2006-10-05 21:35:15 · answer #6 · answered by m c 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who really knows? Maybe it would pull along the RBC's and then all would go nicely back into place when you took the magnet away. (or moved away from the refridgerator magnet).
2006-10-05 20:13:23 · answer #7 · answered by baghmom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kind of like when Magneto drew all the Iron from the gaurds body in the xmen movie.
2006-10-05 20:10:07 · answer #8 · answered by seantherunner 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO the iron in your body is fixed into the red blood and other cells
2006-10-05 20:06:22 · answer #9 · answered by judy_r8 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can understand the theory, but I will disagree based on the iron needing to pass through so many tunnels to get there.
2006-10-05 20:04:44 · answer #10 · answered by James S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋