"I lost thirty pounds off my arse thanks to a pair of copper socks"

[Eichhörnchen]

(Mrs F Trellis)

Does anyone have any personal experience of these sorts of thing (insoles and suchlike) and do they work?

[Betonov]

I lost 30 pound of my arse by getting of my arse.

And I'd stack it to 50 pounds by now if I haven't gotten lazy. And ran out of my asthma medicine. And cought a cold. And if the weather wouldn't turn october.

[AVGWarhawk]

If losing 30 pounds by wearing socks with copper works everyone would be doing it.

[Stealhead]

It dose work. You pay money for snake oil said money is removed from your wallet that money had weight upon removing it you did in fact lose weight. It really is true in the UK if you charged £30.00 then you would in fact lose thirty pounds.

[Platapus]

Is there any reason to think that keeping a small amount of copper next to your skin would have any effect on your body?

[Sailor Steve]

It can turn that patch of skin green. That's an effect. :D

[em2nought]

Something to do with Nikola Tesla no doubt?

[fireftr18]

It dose work. You pay money for snake oil said money is removed from your wallet that money had weight upon removing it you did in fact lose weight. It really is true in the UK if you charged £30.00 then you would in fact lose thirty pounds.

Stealhead has it exactly right. I'm familiar with all these kind of gadgets. There is no valid, independent study that can support the claims. Basically, they don't do anything. There could be a placebo effect, it works because you're convinced it works. I find it interesting that all these things also include instructions with them that tells you to do something that would give you the same result without the device.:hmmm:

[Jeff-Groves]

I'll be 58 in January. I wear the same size cloths I wore in 1976.
I have a secret work out that I have proven works.
It's called work!
:haha:

[Eichhörnchen]

I think the idea is that it helps people overcome pain in their joints, thus allowing them to exercise when this was difficult or impossible before. No I don't believe in "snake oil" remedies either, but this doesn't seem to be one of those.

I get plenty of exercise myself these days with a daily 5-mile cycle ride; I can never understand all the joggers I pass on these outings, pounding away the precious cartilage in their joints...

[ExFishermanBob]

Wait until you slip off and hit the cross-bar. :wah:

[Reece]

Something to do with Nikola Tesla no doubt?
Poor old Nik, he always gets blamed!!:yep:

[Wolferz]

Is there any reason to think that keeping a small amount of copper next to your skin would have any effect on your body?
After taking the inevitable lightning strike, you will be in no shape to worry about weight gain.

I have a proven diet method....

Have your teeth excised.:88):huh:

[Eichhörnchen]

Mrs Emmery would need to be even more careful:

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[limkol]

Isn't copper poisonous? That's why they've stopped using it in some countries as anti-fouling paint on the hulls of ships. So if that's the case, I can understand why it will help you lose weight.

But still it's been used in jewelry and water pipes for centuries. They say copper bracelets should help arthritis sufferers.

Very useful in the moonshine business, so I've heard:o

[Jimbuna]

I'll be 58 in January. I wear the same size cloths I wore in 1976.
I have a secret work out that I have proven works.
It's called work!
:haha:

And that is the only scientifically proven method I reckons :yep:

[Betonov]

Isn't copper poisonous? That's why they've stopped using it in some countries as anti-fouling paint on the hulls of ships. So if that's the case, I can understand why it will help you lose weight.

But still it's been used in jewelry and water pipes for centuries. They say copper bracelets should help arthritis sufferers.

Very useful in the moonshine business, so I've heard:o

Not really. Copper is a much needed mineral in our bodies and is essential in out metabolic processes and without it we'd die.
Too much of it can destroy our liver though.

Apart from that, copper is injested by eating.
Wearing copper socks has the same effect as wearing cotton socks. Or poliester socks. Or wool socks.
The only difference is, when you wear, cotton, polyester or wool you know you weren't screwed over.

[Eichhörnchen]

I ought to admit to a slight "massaging" of the facts here, in that what I actually saw advertised were copper insoles for your shoes; I just thought copper socks sounded funnier.

[Betonov]

I found this (http://www.copper.org/consumers/health/cu_health_uk.html)

Copper In Medicine

Copper has been used as a medicine for thousands of years including the treatment of chest wounds and the purifying of drinking water. More recently, research has indicated that copper helps prevent inflammation in arthritis and similar diseases. Research is going on into anti-ulcer and anti-inflammatory medicines containing copper, and its use in radiology and for treating convulsions and epilepsy. Although there is no epidemiological evidence that copper can prevent arthritis, there have been claims that the wearing of copper bangles does alleviate the symptoms.
Copper Toxicity

Acute copper poisoning is a rare event, largely restricted to the accidental drinking of solutions of copper nitrate or copper sulphate which should be kept out of easy access in the home. These and organic copper salts are powerful emetics and inadvertent large doses are normally rejected by vomiting. Chronic copper poisoning is also very rare and the few reports refer to patients with liver disease. The capacity for healthy human livers to excrete copper is considerable and it is primarily for this reason that no cases of chronic copper poisoning have been reported.
That's the problem there. There have been claims.
I also claim central Europe but that won't make it happen

[Buddahaid]

[QUOTE=Betonov;2352799....I also claim central Europe but that won't make it happen[/QUOTE]

Too late! I claimed it first....... :arrgh!:

[Stealhead]

The copper that jackets a bullet works wonders. The idea is when the bullet hits your body and breaks apart you get some copper deposited. In this way the little fragments mean that you won't need to buy copper insoles or socks.

[Aktungbby]

The copper that jackets a bullet works wonders. The idea is when the bullet hits your body and breaks apart you get some copper deposited. In this way the little fragments mean that you won't need to buy copper insoles or socks.

Ballistics can really 'sock' it to ya BBY!:O:Just so happens I've three chunks of a .380 round jacket... and a lovely surgical grade wire-twist filigree around a shattered femur to give credence to your insight! I'm still givin' 'em fits at airport security metal detectors after 35 years!:oops:

[Buddahaid]

Can't see the image but I can't wait to hear....... Did you lose weight? :D

[Aktungbby]

Actually in the first year/one month in traction...45 lbs down to 135; 3 lbs below my college wrestling weight!...as for my sense of humor...:doh:https://s3.amazonaws.com/lowres.cartoonstock.com/science-cowboy-wild_west-guns-gun_fights-shoot_outs-nki0087_low.jpg

[Betonov]

Too late! I claimed it first....... :arrgh!:

But do you have a lost document that would show your lineage to a member of the Habsburg family putting you in a legal postition to be the 125 584th in line for the Austrian throne :O:

[Eichhörnchen]

Just so happens I've three chunks of a .380 round jacket... and a lovely surgical grade wire-twist filigree around a shattered femur...

Alright, then... how did it happen?

[Betonov]

If we're going to bet on Aktungs missfortune, I'll put 10 euros on he was shot during his police career.

[u crank]

He went hunting with Dick Cheney. :O:

[Betonov]

He wasn't shot in Europe, we still use lead musket balls :O:

Would explain the shattered femur, those things are capable of blowing bones out of the body :dead:

[Aktungbby]

I'll put 10 euros on he was shot during his police career U lose!:D A long tale of woe, stupidity and a silver-cloud involving my Maltese landlord's war-relic Beretta; he claimed he recovered as a lad from a crashed WWII ME 109's pilot who 'no longer needed it' on Malta. Short version: in ejecting a known round, the weapon discharged, ricocheting into my thigh at the hip; A partially open slide(reduced velocity), close range and a direct impact with the bone saved the day, along with my own sudden-recall (broomhandle&belt splint) Boy Scout training. The round did not go through nor hit the femoral artery as with a police friend of mine-deceased- and a resident of one of my housing facilities who had his leg amputated just below the hip from similar friendly (.45) fire incidents. The landlord's homeowner insurance and my own just-acquired-on-a-whim credit-card hospital coverage handled my finances for a year; my landlord never raised my rent in ten years!:up: In debriding the wound, surgeons try not to carve up good quadriceps muscle, so the round frags are left in to encapsulate naturally. This ended my rugby days which turned out to be a blessing...All my mates played well into their forties/fifties: and are in walkers, wheelchairs, or boxes. I'm still working, truckin', hiking, biking-and know when it's going to rain.:timeout: I and my firearm instructor-certification guy, who's hand is pictured with a round from an his Marine M-16 through his palm, advise the new trainees, somewhat gleefully: "do not learn from your mistakes; learn from ours-it saves energy and body parts." Practically everyone I know who works with a weapon has or has been present at an accidental discharge. My cousin, a mighty outdoorsman/hunter/sailor, mocked me for years until, pulling out a birdshott'd shotgun from the rear of his jeep, put it into his own foot; begged the EMT's not to report it and limped to the hospital!!! His first thought, as he confessed over dinner, "Oh God! I'll have to tell Aktung"...there is a god and he's a righteous comedian!:har: NOW The second fracture story: some six months later of the same leg with the full-length steel pin (since removed) from a fall off my Civil War reenacting horse, a noble steed that was not harmed, requires a lot of Hamm's....:O:

[swamprat69er]

That is why I don't much care for handguns. It is way too easy to get yourself hit with 'friendly fire'. Give me a rifle any day.