I posted about Phiten and its bullshit before, but I never got around to explaining why it seemed to work for me at the store, simply because I couldn’t. Well, now I think I can.
A simple search on Google about barleygreen bullshit yielded results about magnet therapy bullshit (Don’t ask me why, it’s on the first page, no less), but in it were gems of truth (perhaps) by a certain Dr. Garrison.
When people feel pain in their wrists from carpal tunnel syndrome, the researcher explained, nerve cells are sending that pain information to the spinal cord. However, if people wear a bracelet that contains a magnet to ease the pain, the pressure from the bracelet will activate other nerves that transmit information about touch to the spinal cord, and these nerves will start to compete with the pain nerve signals, limiting the amount of pain information reaching the brain.
This theory also helps explain why rubbing a painful spot can often make it feel better, Garrison added.
I don’t know how reliable this Dr. Garrison is seeing as a search for him on Google turned up all sorts of weird results, but his theory works for the Phiten necklace and shirts as well. If anything, they serve as mere distractions to my senses, along with my brother’s adidas shorts and my warcraft book.
My street experiments have suffered a huge blow. Phiten shirts cost anywhere between $98-$218. What the fuck.
