The warning of a doctor regarding “wonderful devices” for weight loss: “Magnetic earrings are a fool”

Magnetic earrings promoted as weight loss solutions have no scientific basis and are not approved as medical devices, warns Adrian Copcea, primary diabetes, nutrition and metabolic diseases in an interview for news.ro. The doctor explains that people can be fooled by extrapolating real mechanisms, which are currently used in different areas of medicine and gives some examples in this regard.

“Weakening earrings are a fool. There are no devices approved in the form of earrings, there is not even a scientific basis for the non -homologous,” says the doctor, who explains that such products are promoted by the wrong extrapolation of real medicine mechanisms.

“It wouldn't it be easy and pleasing to lose weight because we wear some earrings? Unfortunately, this does not happen.”

He shows that the idea that certain magnetic fields could influence the functions of the body has a basis in advanced medical practices, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or transcranial magnetic stimulation – a method used in psychiatric and neurological disorders. However, these involve sophisticated equipment, used in specialized centers, not simple magnets incorporated in jewelry.

“It's about advanced techniques that can only be used in ultras specialized centers. Magnetic earrings are just an attractive idea for those looking for easy solutions. Wouldn't it be easy and pleasing to weaken because we wear some earrings? It had certain centers that once stimulated could generate some benefits to certain organs, ”explains the doctor.

Another argument invoked in promoting these products is the theory of vague nerve stimulation – associated with relaxation and regulation of digestion – is often used to justify the use of these accessories. Copcea explains, however, that the relevant nerve endings are not in the area where the earrings are worn, but above, towards the ear flag.

“In reality, it is not a scientific argument for magnetic earrings for weight loss, possibly a placebo effect that says the bearer that if it has special earrings already do something for its figure and this, eventually, could make it more careful. Theoretically it would induce a relaxation and a decrease in appetite…. Which, if they were real, would have certainly widespread, ”says the doctor.

Effective weight loss methods are classic ones: low caloric intake, movement, mental balance and, in severe cases, drug treatment or surgery. “Nothing out of the ordinary,” says the doctor.

Dr. Adrian Copcea also shows that most patients reach the office after they have called, without success, inefficient or even dangerous methods: commercial diets, drastic cures or unbalanced regimes.

“I would say that in my office most have made very bad diets, dissociated diets or commercial diets with pompous names or with pseudomedical justifications but which, finally, are reduced to the starvation of bad, that is, with very few calories and a very poor nutritional quality of the diet (…) the best diet, the best ones, the best ones, Quality, with movement, with a good mental state ”, Dr. Adrian Copcea also explained for News.ro.