I bought a pretty bracelet today, which turned out to be made with “therapeutic” magnets in addition to brass, silver, and copper. I’m not sure if I believe the folklore around copper bracelets and magnets in regards to circulation, healing, and pain relief, but I’m willing to try it.
So as a recent cancer survivor, I’m concerned about potential harmful effects of continuous wear. I am not pregnant, don’t wear a pacemaker, have electronic implants, nor use electric blankets/heating pads. Can you think of any reason why it might be harmful?
Copper has been worn as jewelry for millenia. And magnets are known to be harmless, unless you pass too close to a loose stack of razor blades. As for the therapeutic benefits; there are none.
You could be allergic to the metal.
You could scramble magnetic data media.
Your bracelet could cause an electrical short if brought in contact with bare wires.
You could cut yourself if it has a sharp edge.
I can’t think of any other harmful things from wearing them.
I’ve seen those bracelets. One woman used to use them to block bullets. You should try spinning round and round really fast. Let me know if anything happens, so I know to hatch my international Nazi takeover plot elsewhere.
ETA: On closer inspection I notice the OP’s name. Hmmmm
I dunno about that… Get a few thousand miles away from a fridge magnet, and see how much field strength you get then.
And it looks to me like the OP bought the bracelet primarily because it was pretty, and only noticed the pseudoscientific stuff after the fact. So there’s probably no risk of falling for more pseudoscience, though there might be a risk of falling for more tacky jewelry.
Most of the magnets you’re likely to encounter in your day-today travels will be insufficiently strong to damage high-coercivity bank cards. Which is unfortunately not all cards. Before the days of fancy color-matched data strips it was easy to tell the difference: lo-co stripes were generally light brown and hi-co stripes were dark, almost black.
