Negative Ion/Anti-5g Products Are Actually RADIOACTIVE
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 พ.ค. 2024
- Ads for negative ion products seem to be all over the place these days and they are all the rage with the "wellness" crowd. With wild claims of vague or impossible health benefits, most people chalk it up to just being a scam or just a harmless product designed to separate people from their money.
But the reality is so much worse. Negative ions are a very real thing, but making them takes energy. So how do you make a piece of plastic bracelet keep producing negative ions forever? Well, you fill it with radioactive material. In this video we go through all of the testing I did over the last few months to determine what's in these products and if they're dangerous.
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Huh, 6 minutes ago, lucky
Nice
modern radium water.
YES
VICTORY
No wonder the Karens are being extra for the past few years. They were enhanced with Gamma Radiation and became Karen Hulks!
"the real danger happens when you use these products as intended" is probably the most damning thing you can say about a product
*Unless it's a weapon
Small arms I guess work as intended.
And kill.
@@thederpykitty6042That's a fatal flaw of the user, then.
@TheDerpy Kitty if we're talking gun malfunctions then that's understandable, if we're talking negligent discharge(shooting yourself or others unintentionally) then that's on the handler of the gun.
@@commscan314 mars automatic pistol
Well that's a bit of a step backwards. It's very reminiscent of the radium health drinks.
Maybe soon your MRE video will come true with a ‘negative ion heater’
@@NosirrbroIn my I read the "negative ion heater" in big clives voce
The negative ion tester himself!
Hey clive, doesn't surprize that you are also here!
Quite the wetting drink! I hear if you chugged enough of them, you could melt from the inside out, like the wicked witch. Hey ya Clive!
"This radioactive product is a miracle cure"
Hold up
I thought we already went through this time period in the world history
While time is a straight line, life sure treats it like a circle.
Soon we'll be unrapping mummies for fun
the 20s will always be the 20s, even if we're talking about different centuries
Miracle source of cancer*
Almost exactly a hundred years ago, too. What a coincidence?
I can't stop thinking about the workers that make these and how dangerous the working environment may be.
Exactly! If constant daily exposure from a single bracelet is bad, then what is it like MAKING these ridiculous things? People working day after day shoveling radioactive powder into little pen-shaped vibrators all so that some scammer can make a buck. Shameful.
The new radium girls.
I can.
@@batzzz2044took the comment right out from my mouth
@@simunatorjust like their jaws
When "just fraud" is an improvement...
Much better than cancer on a bracelet
@@thegamingcat7050 Oh, I agree.
lots of those snake oil 'health' products will probably do way better simply acting as placebos
Thorium is radioactive and can be stored in bones. Because of these facts it has the ability to cause bone cancer many years after the exposure has taken place. Breathing in massive amounts of thorium may be lethal. People will often die of metal poisoning when massive exposure take place.
I took that from google just so uk
"The real danger is when the products are used as intended."
Fantastic!
I know right
I read that the SECOND he said it and honestly it kinda scared me
that's China.
@@AaronSchwarz42 i like how, funnily enough, the only thing that i found offensive and objective of your comment was the part abt ideology and culture
@@AaronSchwarz42 It's not China, it's capitalism dummy.
Conspiracy theorist: "5G emits dangerous, cancer causing radiation!" *wears thorium bracelet to protect themselves from it*
no joke. the real problem is willful stupidity.
They say fight fire with fire🤷
@Punkrock Noir wdym
@@punkrocknoir8584quoted from the internet
You should stop using conspiracy theorist as a catch all term for anyone you don't like or disagree with.
I know this video was quite a while ago. A friend of mine who is afraid of 5G... (A subject for another time) bought these stick-on pads for your phone to protect yourself from 5G radiation. 🙄
Anyway, as an electrical engineer I made some tests, they did nothing to stop RF.
Interestingly, I put them near a Geiger counter and could not believe what I saw!!! The glue used to stick these on is loaded with thorium! I will say that again, the adhesive is loaded with thorium. The 4 of them together, we're showing just north of two mcs!! Imagine keeping that in your pocket all day, occasionally removing it for 30 minutes at a time to put it near your head. I can only imagine when the adhesive starts to decay and particles become airborne.
These are another Amazon product. I only tested one brand, but I see that they sell many.
I don't think there's a need for 5G pads on your phone if your phone can't even do 5G 😂
@@matthewferraro8020also most phones allow you to disable 5G
@@nathanielolsen1281 built in anti 5g no way
Of course they don't block RF. If they did, the phone would stop working...
The absolute genius to believe blocking the thing that makes your phone work would help is honestly a depressing indictment of humanity
4:27 Wellness product: "it works as an anti-oxidant"
Also wellness product: *generates free oxygen radicals*
PastaAivo It should be advertised as a pro-oxidant instead.
hahahaha
Nothing is free something some were is producing it, so it is radioactive decay witch is natural in some cases, so it's not free
also how does a neutral molecule split into 2 negative ions
@@MasterVirusGaming_MVG that's not what "free" means in this context, mister master gamer
Fun fact: At 5 uSv/hr, it would only take 166 days to exceed the maximum federally allowed annual radiation exposure for a nuclear power plant worker.
And it's all right in a tiny circle on your wrist
Have fun with that bracelet shaped melanoma
Not great not terrible.
fadrium No. It’s just bad. Federal limits are in the area of 10 mSv per year with a maximum limit of 50 mSv over a five year period. To dose out in only 166 days is a sizeable amount to commit in ignorance.
@@Larken42 he's memeing, it's a phrase from the HBO documentary on chernobyl where one of the reactor techs remarks "not great not terrible" to the initial reading of 3.6 roentgen (3.6 being a meme itself now). It's a very good documentary, covers the sceince behind the meltdown better than any other to date.
Great to see things independently tested.
I had a balance band (negative ion emitting) my mother made me wear for 3 years before the rubber ripped on the back.
I really hate to think how much radiation I may have been exposed to
Your mom probably believes in tarot cards and spirit crystals lol
@@Cbd_7ohm Mine did the same and she does, since it's literally her job lol. Tbh I don't recommend growing up in this kind of environment. I was denied actual healthcare for pretty much all of my life.
Well you got about double the recommended amount of radiation wich isn't to dangerous but still if you get cancer your mother is likely to blame
@@Cbd_7ohmtarot cards are real~
spirit crystals arent
I lived in Japan for 11 and a half years and I was shocked at the contrast between the IMAGE Japan puts out there of a hyper modern society and the REALITY on the ground of Japan as an unregulated heaven for quackery. There are so many terrible products in Japanese drugstores ranging from, as you mentioned, supposedly ionized face cream, to pads you put on your feet to supposedly suck out bad "toxins", to cosmetic procedures that can actually cause severe side effects such as injecting mineral oils into the face.
Careful, anime profile pictures will tell you you’re wrong 😑
I remember a TH-camr accidentally putting a banana on one of these anti toxic pads (he bought them only for the video about them) and he laughed that there are toxins in his banana.
@@braderley 😢
@@LooneyClipse its ok we dont mean you baku ......
I once bought a small vial of powder from a 7/11 in japan it claimed that if you dipped a cigarette into it and then lit up and started smoking it would some how convert the cigarette smoke into healthy protein for your body🤦♂️
We really are back in the 20s hyping up those lovely radiation-filled products!
Well we are in the 20s, just a different century this time
20s are the chaos decade, since, like, a few centuries ago.
@@Quazex The more thing's change the more they stay the same.
The difference now is that they're hiding the fact that they're radioactive, whereas back then they didn't know enough about radiation to do so.
@@californium-2526 "A few centuries"
"Ion tester"
hey wait is that a...
*scrapes at label*
"Geiger counter"
underrated comment
Except Geiger counter costs like 1/10 or 1/20 of price compared to a "rebrand" to Ion Tester.
Lol, yes it is my good sir, may I interest you in this negative ion inhaler?
Isn't that a cigarette?
Only to the uneducated, sir. But you and I know otherwise.
He used this gag in the follow up episode. Awesome!
no it's a health-o-meter
I'd much prefer simple fraud than actually dangerous products being on the market. At least with fraud the only thing hurting is gullible people's wallets...
Or the warehouse workers that have to handle them every day
Better rethink this.
Fraud ... and even if it is only by speech or text ... can hurt or kill people.
Nah its so chaotic researchers can mutation breed plants and etc.
Like the organite products 😂
Money, even if it means missing payments for some period, can be recovered a lot easier than tumors after all...
That first part about the salt lamp explains so much. I thought they were pretty, looked up prices and have been wondering why they're charging so much for a light bulb in a piece of salt ever since.
It's a massive scam! 😆 remember when that guy sold millions of pounds worth of rocks with a USB cable stuck in them... there are many ways to take money from gullible people
@@Jawst the USB Pet Rock wasn't a scam though, it worked as advertised.
Its just red veined halite. But don't wash it with water
I got mine from the dollar store for $5. It has a color changing LED inside. I don't believe it does a single thing for my health other than completely satisfying my goblin brain's desire to have glowing rocks in my house.
@KattriellaDoesStuff relatable, I had to get rid of mine because I live in a humid place, and it started "crying." Which caused everything around it to rust.
My mum bought me one of these pendants for my birthday last year, I thought “heh, why not wear it” didn’t think it’d cause any harm. 19 months later I’m constantly exhausted.... *quickly removes it*
wishing you the best! hope you feel better
I really hope you're okay mate.
do you feel any better
Thanks for the wishes folks! I have to say I'm not 100% but I'm not bed bound for days on end - so that's an improvement. Scary stuff
Sue the company
This was SIGNIFICANTLY more horrifying than I thought coming into this
Agreed my none radioactive friend, agreed.
@@gabriels3909 Keep using it and see what happens :)
Genuinely though, we don’t care and we don’t buy the negative ion woo. No need to say this in every single comment thread, because nobody is convinced
"I don't want 5G to give me cancer. I'll let this bracelet do it instead!"
Radiation therapy destroys all cells, including cancer cells. It won't give you cancer.
It’s really impressive that the best case scenario is that you were scammed into buying a piece of plastic that isn’t doing anything
What I've learned: salt lamps have nice aesthetic but don't actually do anything, and everything else just kills you.
@@matthewlawton9241 don't really like then, they'r really salty
Yeah, I love my salt lamp! My grandma got it for me for Christmas because she heard all the negative ion BS, but I legitimately love the soft dim glow for when I'm getting ready in the morning and I don't want bright light.
@@matthewlawton9241 EXACTLY
@@CristianSalles1 Well its salt. what do you expect.
@@ZachHixsonTutorials Same here, its just nice on my eyes
Yup, I used to have a "quantum biophysics negative ion patch" specifically as a cheap thorium radiation test source for making radiation detectors. For $2 it actually works really well for that purpose.
tbh it'd be quite sad to lose this massive source of radioactive material to make r-
i wont finish that, dont want the government stalking me more than they already do
"quantum biophysics negative ion patch" ? ... I am awestruck at that one
Lol, that's a genius way of getting your radioaktive material.
@@heroslippy6666 Well, do you have a solution to the corrosion problem in LFTRs? If not then they are quite a few decades away.
you could just go to the rocky mountains and pick up a uranium rock. or to California beaches and pick up thorium sand. i think that's why this stuff is legal because you can just go get the stuff that's in them. the real danger is the deception of it being beneficial to your health.
Thought of this video when I heard about that high school that has abnormally high rates of brain cancer (same school that was evacuated in 1997 because a teacher with a Geiger counter found a radioactive rock. Students were potentially exposed to the radiation from that rock for 8 hours every weekday for 4 years. I wonder what's causing their cancer?)
Don't high school students typically go between rooms?
Can you send me some articles about this? It sounds interesting to me
@@commscan314not everywhere
That’s Colonia High School in Woodbridge, New Jersey and they did not have abnormally high rates of brain cancer
I saw a seller of this on the street, and they had a Geiger counter on the table. They were showing how they Geiger counter was “picking up radiation from 5g, but it was their own bracelet. They put the bracket next to the counter, and turned the counter off. They then pretended that they had simply “pressed the button to get a new reading” and remarked on how it was no longer showing a number. They then moved the bracelet farther away, and turned it back on, pretending that the reading was from “ the new reading without the bracelet.” They know it’s radioactive and they’re using that to trick people
I have a Himalayan salt lamp. I thought they were just supposed to be pretty.
They do look pretty, and apparently won't kill you. Plus, plus.
Yeah. If "hey, this lamp gives me a pretty light" is your only goal with a salt lamp, you're the only person on earth getting what you paid for.
@@blarghinatelazer9394 negative ions in general aren't harmful to my understanding (just, not beneficial), when they're generated by electricity or a candle in the room or something similarly innocuous (and as Big Clive pointed out, they can attract the dust in a room to a central position, if that's a goal you have). The problem here is these products are using radioactivity as a "convenient" power and ion source.. since technically alpha and beta particles are ions. They're just, uh, radioactive, very high energy ones.
@@blarghinatelazer9394 negative ions in general aren't harmful to my understanding (just, not beneficial), when they're generated by electricity or a candle in the room or something similarly innocuous (and as Big Clive pointed out, they can attract the dust in a room to a central position, if that's a goal you have). The problem here is these products are using radioactivity as a "convenient" power and ion source.. since technically alpha and beta particles are ions. They're just, uh, radioactive, very high energy ones.
@@Thirdbase9 they also taste pretty.
I thought Himalayan salt lamps were just aesthetic aunt mood lamps lol...
I mean if u never turn it on yeah
my grandma uses it because she thinks they look nice
I have one I got as a reading light because it looked nice.
@@Zdoc9 I licked it too.
granted I was a small kid but still
I have one of those just because I like the look of them
I love how conspiracy theorists build their entire identity around not blindly following what someone says but as long as you tell them your product has "special gamma energy fields" they will gladly consume without question.
It's what we call natural selection, I guess...
@@heraut people on the internet don't know what natural selection is
@@aliveslice It's sad but unsurprising. After all the majority of our fellow animals don't ether ^^
there are a lot of conspiracy theory. wendigoon made 10hours video on conspiracy theory iceberg. using conspiracy theorist as blanket statement is disingenuous. i myself a conspiracy theorist on geopolitic and not on new age health bullshit like this.
@@PenguinCrayon269that's scepticism to be wary of people in power
7:47 "..You'd have to eat ~100,000,000 bananas before this was dangerous" Phew, just eaten my 99,999,999th banana, dodged this bullet by a hair
And it is filtered via pee so potassium 40 won't be a problem
damn this guy just completely deleted his hunger debuff 💀💀
Damn! are you my maths teacher?
@@kinganonymous4844 *I am the Bane of Vegetables, the Devourer of Fruit, the One which you heard about in your Math problems. I eat in multiples of 3, 5 and sometimes even 9. Fear me, for I am the very reason why PEMDAS exist: my appetite cannot be measured even with the most complicated equation*
"Ah yes, the RADIATION would kill you!"
"Ha, the people of the past were so stupid, radium blankets, radium paint! So silly!"
Meanwhile, in the WOOOOORLD OF TOMORROW!
The5lacker .
Really.
Bet you you believe in biblical miricles to.
@@gingerbread1032 first
/whooosh
second
learn to spell.
@@thecommenterabc6122 /whoosh has been around before r/whoosh.
also, welcome to the internet, you seen to be new here and don't understand that no one cares what you think.
The Commenter
Thank you commenter.
@@thecommenterabc6122 well, yes, it is a paradox.... but i fail to see how that makes my point moot......
you do realize that a paradoxical statement, no matter how self-contradicting it seems, still holds water.
the text book definition of a paradox, copied from google, is "a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true."
your acting like a paradoxical statement is a double negative...... it's not...
it's like your an idiot or something... not that i care it's just confusing.
I've had my ion on these criminals. Now I am positive: they ought to be charged
I'll show myself out.
Rad
Cyanide and happiness, would call for a be-heading
Yeah you better leave
🤣🤣🤣
Nerd humor is the best
I'm embarrassed that got a chuckle out of me.
Another issue with thorium and alpha radiation...since the devices shed thorium powder, you are going to end up with internal contamination. And when it is internal, alpha is *by far* the most dangerous type of radiation. When I got a geiger counter I made sure to get one that was capable of detecting alpha. We need to be using this thorium to make pebble bed thorium reactors for safe clean energy, not exposing people to it.
Thorium is probably also just poisonous.
Yeah, the flip side of it not penning far means it's FAR more likely to be dumping all it's energy into the first thing it finds, or to just bounce around and cause despair like a psychotic pinball.
@@hedgehog3180 True, most heavy metals are also (chemically) poisonous, whether they are radioactive or not.
@@StormsparkPegasusimagine the misery of getting both heavy metal poisoning AND radiation sickness from the same material
@@StormsparkPegasusisn’t the term heavy metal used to refer to toxic metals anyways? (Things like arsenic or lead)
Low band 5G uses the same frequency bands as historic TV broadcast, 3G/4G mobile and other ISM band gadgets, Mid band 5G uses frequencies around wifi and bluetooth bands, these have been around for years, these products have zero effects at these radio frequencies and are just a marketing ploy with zero benefits. High band 5G is not able to penetrate the skin at anywhere near the distance of mid band 2.4Ghz.
If people are that concerned do not carry a mobile phone, any bluetooth gadgets, switch of you wifi router and hide in a lead lined box for the rest of your life.
THANK YOU! I’m tired of hearing the bullshit people spew about 5G
>Be scared of regulated processed food, with every ingredient described on the package
>Love cheap radiation pellets with fancy names and designs
Obviously we just need to change the IUPAC nomenclature to sound more cutesy. Or maybe in proportion to its actual danger level.
Charles Lambert Actually, most of it is not even IUPAC, but common names. So I doubt that would change anything.
Charles Lambert Shorter name: less deadly; longer name: more deadly. We'll change sodium benzoate to benso & thorium dioxide to monothorium dieoxygenium.
@@DeeFeeCee Add the suffix "of death" for radioactive elements.
Well duh! We can pronounce thorium dioxide easily and therefore it's safe! But dihydrogen monoxide is harder to say and therefore it'd bad! /s
Now I want Cody to do a series on refining thorium from negative ion products.
Dude,the govt assholes stalk him enough already.
@@rockytom5889 I've almost completely stopped watching his channel. I want the interesting shit. That's a video I would watch.
@@Skylancer727 such a good video! He killed that glass on his 1st try, I was impressed
just had mine arrive today (pendant) and thank GOD i had enough common sense to say to myself "hm... I wonder how exactly does this work" and ended up finding your video in the process. Needless to say, i put it back in the packaging and sending it back for refund ASAP.
I've had pendant 3 yrs. No rubber or plastic, it's glass or crystal..however, this video is what got me to rip it off. Been suffering with skin weirdness, throat tumors and laundry list of other annoying and disconserting ailments. Thought I did my homework but apparently issue of Thorium never came to study!! So, tell your friends etc...DO NOT INVEST OR APPLY TO HUMAN BODY!!! As if our air(chems)water, earth aren't dangerous enough now just wear it!!! OMG help us!!! Well, gonna look to feeling better without the neg ion noose. Stay strong. Thanks
Literally same lol
I impulse purchased a pendant and bracelet and it just came in today. And I was too interested in how it works.. also sending it back
When you’re too smart for your downfall
You cant be very smart if you bought the thing to begin with.
A thorium vibrator...
it seems I have finally seen it all.
Cancer speedrun
gamma gooning
11:43 "imagine sleeping with these things on" Well last time i went to China they were selling special 'negative ion latex pillows', now I'm really glad I didn't buy them.
@GhostDogg o Also big pharma has long patents and evergreening which gives them artificial monopolies
This is honestly terrifying... I always thought that these were just rubber with a label on them making some wild claims.
Seriously, and it doesn't even work better than a shiny sticker on the inside somewhere. I guess this is what happens when we bypass a hundred years of safety regulations to buy slightly cheaper garbage online.
and this is just one of many, many scams going on today that are totally legal.
What's terrifying is all the people being occupationally exposed to these in *bulk*, distributing, warehousing, manufacturing, etc. I don't have any clue how this is even happening, honestly.
@@beware_the_moose yeah no kidding
@@beware_the_moose you could probably see the spike in cancer on a map whenever the factories are, and I'll bet they don't have anything in the way of dust mitigation to keep it all out of their lungs
Every once in a while I come back to re-watch this video, both because it's such quality content, and to remind myself how low scammers will go. Preying on health concern *and* pretending to fix them by selling something *actually* harmful?
Just another day in The Future. Star Trek was extremely optimistic.
I will admit that I was 1 of those people who bought a salt lamp years ago at a Trade Show. I forget what the seller claimed that it could do, but it was reasonable & I thought it looked cool. And it wasn't too expensive, I think around $20 CAD. Plus the lightbulb is easy to replace (just a Christmas ornament bulb), for those nights where I just wanna bath in the warm soft glow of my lamp. I was honestly kinda happy that you showed that it wasn't radioactive. I still have it sitting on a spot above my computer to this day. While I haven't lit it up in a long time, I think it's a nice decoration.
4 months later and these are still sold on amazon. There are reviews from people a couple of weeks ago that bought them and think they're somehow helping them with their balance. And they don't mean qi balance, they mean not falling over as much anymore. So presumably old people that have trouble with their sense of balance are poisoning themselves with radiactive stuff...without knowing it. Unbelievable, yet it's still continuing...
Plus their cellular repair is less effective, so they have even higher chances of developing cancer from this...
That is really sad
Chances are, some people go out on their way to actually write down fake reviews so that they increase chances on buying products.
Uh yeah that's scary af, I struggle with balance because of mobility issues Eustachian tube dysfunction(thanks great grandma for passing that one down to me obvious sarcasm) menieres disease dystaxia and multiple concussions from middle school as well as oxygen starvation during birth and I'm pretty sure being irradiated by a little silicone pendant loaded with thorium dioxide powder would make those WAY worse let alone give you cancer or brain problems like neurodegeneration. Even though my quality of life is so bad because of my conditions I still wouldn't be desperate enough to touch that thing, I'm also concerned about the old folks who are actually falling for this as they might not have anyone around to check in on them and guide em away from this stuff :(
My doctor had a bunch of bright yellow and red pottery from the 1920s. I happened to have my gieger counter on me(cause i always carry) and he had pottery that made 10.6uSv/h! It was quite fun.
How did he react
@@toryknotts8026 he was rather concerned at first but thought it was rather fascinating after I explained that it wasn't too dangerous as long as he didn't eat it or sleep on it.
this just reminds me of someone eating horse ash shaped into a jar
or pot
Just curious why do you carry a gieger counter around?
I wonder how healthy working in a factory that produces those items might be...
And the first thing that this comment made me think of was 'Radium girls'
This video is awesome, I wish I'd found your channel earlier! The most terrifying part, for me, was when you showed the 'negative ion' powders for sale; when people start inhaling even tiny amounts of dust their committed effective dose goes up by many orders of magnitude.
I bought my niece a salt lamp for Christmas thinking that it was just supposed to be a pretty light. Had no idea about the negative ion thing, glad they’re not radioactive I guess 🙄
The Himalayan salt does contain some potassium, which would make it ever so slightly radioactive, but that's still basically background levels.
On a daily basis we get hit with radiation, as long as you don't just press the object to your body for periods of time it won't hurt you. Just don't ingest it.
I just like how they look, but a shame it's not radioactive
@@inertiaking1 r/cursedcomments
@@dragonridley tbf if we go with potassium, a banana is a source of radiation xD
Just imagine the state of the people that work at the factories that make them
Oh. My. God.
This comment needs more visibility.
The people making radioactive bracelets with China-level "safety" need more visibility.
It's like those factories where thousands of women were licking their brushes as they painted watches with radioactive ink
Well, at least Th-232 has a very long half-life of 14.05 billion years. It's only mildly radioactive. Guarapari Beach in Brazil is a thorium-rich sanded beach which will make a Geiger-Müller counter scream, and that will give a full-body dose. To put it in perspective, radium-226 is about 8.8 million times more radioactive than thorium-232. 1 microgram (1 microcurie) of radium-226 would have about the same activity as about 8.8 grams of thorium-232, since Ra-226 has a much shorter half-life of 1600 years, and radium is in the same group as calcium, making it a "bone seeker". Th-232 is relatively safe, as long as you don't ingest or inhale much of it. It's toxicity is more of an issue than its radioactivity, especially if the thorium compound is water-soluble. These should be sold as check sources or chemicals, not these dumb, new age products! Because this just causes more fear to those who don't have a good understanding of what radioactivity is, and I enjoy the study of radioactivity!
@JadonGamer well they do give you tumors and brain tumors at that. 5g is dangerous
I saw that toothbrush the other day online. I claims you don't need toothpaste, you just need to dip it in water. I was skeptical, but i thought it might be good for travel if it works. Luckily i didn't buy it.
It's kind of scary how easy it is to buy something like this on accident.
I have that toothbrush. There's actually a battery inside it. I would say it's emitting a negative charge instead of negative ions, though.
Is it emitting a lot of fluoride particles or something? Because otherwise you definitely need toothpaste
It's the healthy glow situational over again (there was a time where people thought uranium was good for you, nicknamed it a healthy glow because they would literally glow from the products)
So when is the alternative crowd gonna start taking healing trips to the elephant's foot in Chernobyl?
Ozzelot hopefully soon
Why would they worry about chernobyl? They have healing crystals, vitamin C, mercury is in retrograde, and they're unvaccinated. Clearly they're immortal. There's really nothing to fear. You would understand if you were smart enough to take vegan glutenfree all natural organic herbal suppository health supplements, and got coffee enemas once a week to detox.
@@wargex tbh the gluten free suppository and coffee enema sounds nice for a Friday night activity.
Aren't the elephant's foot danger levels way lower after all these years?
I'm pretty sure it's still dangerous as shit, but probably not as deadly as when it first formed.
I ask because I assume the real dangerous stuff had really short half-lives so it probably already decayed into something less radioactive.
But what do I know, I just push buttons :D.
@@GoldSrc_ You'd be absolutely fine with that suit of yours (if only it had a helmet)... I do think you're right about the radiation levels being lower, but they'd be enough to teach the woo crowd a lesson they'd remember for the rest of their lives. Which still wouldn't be all that long.
About your Amazon recommendations: You can delete entries from your history and that will get rid of all the esoteric crap.
thanks :D
Works great for when you need to buy a... massage wand...
Except it is in your purchase hustory
meoka2368 😏 duly noted
Also helps with some of the recommendations for products you've already bought. I mean, you'll still get a recommendation to rebuy your vacuum a week later, which sucks enough to just rub Amazon on your floor sometimes, but it's a little less common if you delete the vacuum from your history.
5:13 I love how he casually says, 'We'll go over this detector when we look at anti matter'
17:03 oh my god it’s radium water all over again. Remember: everything is fun and games until someone’s jaw falls off
Yea
"I'm surprised Goop doesn't sell these"
Best line of the video
Not yet anyways.
Uranium glass dildos in stock next month at goop
Professionals have standards
For those not in the know: GOOP is a company ran by a famous American actress that sells fake medicines and stupid housewares for extremely exorbitant prices!
Imagine a scummy pharmaceutical company mixed with HomeGoods
@@MandrakeFernflower so how does the rotten fish candle qualify a medicine fake or otherwise is gwyneth paltrow actually claiming the smell of her rotten orifice has health benifits?
So I'm going on to Amazon and posting this link in the comments section for all of these type of products
I shall join you Conrad.
@@davidmartin1628 comrade
Chris Dikiy I hope you really are doing that. Over and over and over again.
@@MannyJazzcats xD
The hero we need
I used to have a necklaces one in Primary School, my grandmother bought it and I liked the design and all, so she gave it to me. School don't allow necklaces, but me being rebelious just put it behind my uniform, making my chest contact with it(Yikes). About a week later, I can't focus on learning because my whole body goes crazy itchy, and I got rashes all over me. Teacher bring me to the principal, and she told me to not wear it anymore.
I may or may not have save my grandma's life by exchanging a part of mine.
What was it made of?
It's the round one at 13:25
I respect the fact u guys told the company about how dangerous this stuff was.
I just emailed this video to CBC Marketplace, they're an investigative journalism show here in Canada that focuses on shady business practices. Hopefully they'll look into this...
@@the1observer ah yes the “woke” dude who is actually just privileged and has access to labs instead of looking at news sites, then looks down upon people who don’t know where or how to see primary sources or can’t afford to look at studies on google scholar and the like. How smart... :|
@@the1observer wow you’re doing a lot of jumping to conclusions there. When did I say I wear a double mask? And yes, in this pandemic, I have a high risk family member so I’m staying away from people and wearing a mask. why does that invalidate my point
Right on!
@@the1observer Yikes..... kinda,,, toxic man,,, 😬
@@the1observer is rather go to Japan in ww2 than argue with you
People moving back to the Fukushima region: "Honey, what happened to all our sheets?"
Amazon: Negative ion sheets, straight from Japan!
It's really great to see someone holding con artists & frauds accountable for their lack of real action, well worth the subscription mate, cheers!!! 👍👍
I was abble to remove a commertial selling cushions with negative ions, based on you video i made a complain in the government helth issues about it and never saw any commertial selling negative ion on tv anymore. TY
Desperate Thorium Salesman: “Where the hell are we gonna put all this thorium? Nobody will buy it if they know what it is!”
Snake Oil Salesman: “Hold my beer.”
Yup...
Thinking the same thing, bro. This is all just reselling old lantern hoods.
The Gayest Person on TH-cam thorium is pretty useful in alpha voltaic batteries (really low current ones) and it has a massively high melting point so it is used in a lot of places.
However it has to be quite highly refined to be useful so the glut could easily be in the unrefined ores. People being able to get their hands on it so apparently easily is a real concern because you can make protactinium from it’s fission series in a reactor. Protactinium is easily separated from thorium etc and is capable of being used in nuclear weapons.
Next up: Thorium spiked beverages.
@@VulpeculaJoy That was an actual thing back in the 30's or so
"Don't lick them". the first thing our Prof told us about the alpha samples in the lab XD.
I saw this comment right as he said that
I’m a radiation safety technician at a nuclear power plant and “don’t lick things” is my frequent go to phrase before letting people go do work and it is always meant and received as humorous… until he said it in this video and now I’m cringing.
This story makes me want to purchase a damn Geiger counter.
I would get one
i would like a wearable geiger counter
@@omegadragons321if gamma vision becomes a thing, I'm getting that
"But the real danger happens when the products are used as intended." This is one of the most amazing true statements ever.
"If Amazon could sell drugs, guns and human organs...... they probably would." - Aaaaand Subbed
pretty sure anybody would. War and drugs can make a man rich
They can sell guns tho, nothing’s stopping them. And there’s not enough buyers of organs for it to really be profitable. And they do sell drug, just not illegal ones
@@teathesilkwing7616 My uhu glue hasn't run out since last year. Using it to mend sandals and it sure smells good.
@@TheGamingMotionTGM why
@@senatorarmstrong689 Cause solvents for drug usage is commercially available. Its fine if you just want to sniff glue briefly.
May Atom bless us with his warming glow
*hair falls out*
Yes fallout the best game
@@sylviaharvey7363 Fallout is indeed the best game!
The more I watch the channel the more I think you should run a brand that sells products like wearable Geiger counters...
While you're at it, add a miniature computer to it and give buyers a complementary jumpsuit.
I mean, thorium is my favourite element but I'm not stupid enough to strap it to my body
Thorium when I think about it. Is THE VERY BEST ELEMENT.... If learned blacksmithing, this could make a nuclear knife.
@@MaoRatto Yeah and you would get a radioactive workspace for free while you made it! Forever!
I'm glad I'm not the only one! Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors (traveling wave are good too) are the FUTURE! ...just not the future for the USA because their laws are too strict to let a reactor like that ever get built...
@@SpaghettiEnterprises well, not forever
@@DJBillyQ ... Liquid... Flouride... That is not safe.
"Don't lick them." Love it.
I'm a Radiological Control Technician and I tell new people that all the time.
Pretty sure that's a RadCon standard phrase. I've certainly heard it enough at my job.
I do so love how we all have to be retaught not to lick things, like when we were four or something.
@@elvingearmasterirma7241 Well in Geology it is encouraged.
Honestly I didn’t even know the salt lamps were supposed to do anything, I just got one for Christmas one year and liked that the light changed color and thought it looked cool lmao
That cloud chamber is awesome
And now for our next "healing" product that science doesn't want you to have: Demon Core
"Bring the two halves together for 5 seconds and you will never feel pain again! Gone will be your neighbors' pesky downer attitude!"
Hahaha lol. Got my morning laugh.
Also guarantees that you won't die from any disease (if applied correctly)
Seriously alternative “healing” products meant to be consumed have and still do include literal bleach, hydrogen peroxide, turpentine (a paint stripper), and human urine.
What kind of single white mother would have a screwdriver to wedge it open tho.
The "negative ion meter" on the blanket is actually just an electrometer for measuring static charge, used to survey and validate electronics industry ESD defence measures...
a blanket having static electricity, isnt that shocking
@@LiEnbyI mean technically…
CONGRATS ON 1MILLION
I wore a balance band for years. Several years since i got it as a gift. Now im concerned. Cool.
You probably cut years off of your life congratulations 🎉
"make your water more wet"
That's definitely a metaphor for virility.
I'd never heard that claim about the salt lamps; everyone I know just likes the way they look.
Lol i don't have one but i want it for Astheatics
Or taste.
Hi! could you make a video on these for air purifiers? Many advertise with their "ionizing" capabilities which supposedly help get rid of germs and it would be interesting to know more about they compare to these sorts of products
Air purifiers are hooked up to a power source so it’s a lot different from this and likely is no radioactive.
Not radioactive but 0- is just ozone and it's just as bad
@@reynaldo4657o zone is just as bad as radioactivity? Why?
a quick search would give you some favor @@vgamedude12
@@vgamedude12 Ozone is highly reactive and will oxidize most chemicals it comes into contact with, which does a bunch of nasty things. There's a reason why ozone is only found high in the atmosphere and that's because that's the only place it won't instantly bump into something else to react to. Ozone is very dangerous to your mucuos membranes, meaning your eyes, nose and lungs, it can cause irritation in them and cause permanent damage, worsening your sense of smell, lowering your lung capcity, and possibly even impacting your sight. Ozone is used as a disinfectant in some circumstances but this is why, it can easily kill living things, though you don't need to worry if your food was disinfected using Ozone because there won't be any left by the time you get it. But like try to avoid it for the same reason you'd avoid inhaling any other disinfectant.
This reminds me a lot of those crappy glow in the dark products that were actually made out of radium in the 20th century
it should. it's the exact same scam.
Well actually the glow was far superior to those phosphorus products today so I wouldn't call them crappy. 😅
On the back of this video I actually bought one of the pendants on ebay to see how radioactive they were for myself, and sure enough it was. What I wasn't expecting however is the plastic "authenticity card" that came in its box was *also* radioactive - in fact more so than the pendant itself!
Wait, what? How did that happen?
@@NickiRusin Presumably the card is made from the same material...for authenticity?
It boggles my mind as to why they'd do it.
@@Chlorate299 Or the factory is so contaminated by thorium dust by now that everything in it is radioactive.
Same; I have a pendant that registers 1.3 uSv/h and the card actually registers 1.7 uSv/h.
Damn, that's horrifying.
Reminds me of an old newspaper article titled "The radium water worked fine until his jaw fell off" xD
I read about that, it was an energy drink right?
@@NilesBlackX Use google mate
@@TheLeeringMachinist I already read about it, I'm asking if they read the same thing. Can't Google _someone else's memory_
@@NilesBlackX Google "Radium water"
@@TheLeeringMachinist I think you're missing the point. I'm curious if this specific person read the same article as me.
As someone who had to have ultrasound instead of CT to make certain my IUD hadn't punched a hole in my uterus because I was too close to my dose limit for the year in early October 2021 (multiple scans to be certain a spot in my brain wasn't a missed stroke, and a series of spots in my liver weren't cancer, planning maxiofacial surgery, and a fluoroscope guided spinal injection every 3 months for chronic pain from a damaged L1).
The policy was I had to have a certain amount below the limit as a safety net for if I was in an accident or broke a bone and needed multiple scans (I think they said equivalent to 5 chest x-rays was the safety net because I'm "medically complex")
That people could be walking around getting the equivalent of what took me a year in and out of ERs and pain clinics, through my whole body, in a 1inch circle of their body without knowing is terrifying.
Lol negative ion generator... It literally ionizes YOU
The good ol` swicheroo
Probably stands for negative health effects, and ionizing radiation. Yummy stuff indeed.
the _real_ negative ions have to come from inside
@Joe Blow Real negative ion generators generate ozone though, which is definitely harmful for humans.
@@rdizzy1 yeah but if you're dead no more harm may befall you.
"Billy! What are you doing with Mommy's Special Pen?!"
"Mommy, I'm turning green like a superhero!"
Did you just straight-up make your own SPECTROMETER? Holy shit this guy is the real deal, subscribed!
Damn this is why being informed is so important, my godmother gave me the circular pendant as a gift a long time ago and told me to use it 24/7 wherever I go, me being young I didn't ask any questions and used that thing on my chest all day everyday for YEARS, it eventually broke a few years ago so I stopped using it, but that thing say just below my mouth and nose day and night for a long time
This is like the modern day equivalent of radioactive glow paint or asbestos.
And to think people thought WiFi was the real threat.
Atlest asbestos still has it's modern uses (despite the large amounts of PPE needed to handle it)
Or 5G
Mandrake Fernflower What uses?
On asbestos, nah. Plenty of things you can sub in, but the benefits of using asbestos (it hates being on fire) were actually quantifiable. Not saying it should ever see use again outside of extremely controlled circumstances, but it didn't increase your energy levels while killing you, it kept you off fire and killed you.
Asbestos is still a threat in Sweden. A lot of buildings from the 50s are still around with asbestos fibers in pipe insulation, vinyl flooring, heating ducts etc. Building owners are responsible for inventorying and testing for presence of asbestos but this seems to be largely ignored as it adds substantial costs. The general public seems to have forgotten this danger, even construction workers.
This is basically: "Wear a portable chernobyl on your arm and get superpowers."
*Side Effects May Include:* Schizophrenia, Permanent Blindness, Cancer, Mega-Cancer, Sudden Loss of Limbs and Skin, Getting Fried Alive Till' You're Nothing But A Big Pile Of KFC and Minor Nausea.
@@brandonvelde5774 if you wear the bracelet for 166 days you would've overdone a worker in a nuclear plant body capacity of radiation (and I mean a whole year kind if radiation). Like damm one wrist receiving the same radiation that someone's body who works whith it for 8 or more hours sounds healthy.
Yeah you're gonna be Super Paraplegic
@@lugoorstar DIY cancer-inator 2000
The superpower being the ability to sleep in a box forever
Thanks for sharing this detailed analysis and research
very well put together. thanks!
O2 in marketing diagram: *splits into two negative ions*
Conservation of charge: *am I a joke to you?*
That would just break physics lmao
@@Fred_the_1996 Yep, chemistry student here, it would need to release some form of energy. (I forget what type of energy specifically, I don't have my chemistry textbook with me.)
Edit: Gain, sorry. Oops! I forgot it was splitting into negative ions..
It would need to somehow gain electrons during the split.
@@syweb2 Hmmm, might be possible if there were a ton of electrons just floating about, but that's not natural conditions in Earth's atmosphere so it's irrelevant in the context of normal use.
@@nikkiofthevalley 'Trust me, I did a quick google search and essential oils can make it gain electrons and emit good health particles that treat covid'
- Susan
What scares me about this is that I can be given something like this as a gift without ever knowing it
you can always buy a geiger counter
What scares me is that thorium, or something just as concerning, could be in the flour I buy, or vitamin powders, or in anything innocuous-looking.
@@TheAechBomb Sad it may have to come to this.
@@Coaching-is3pz what are you talking about, flour producers don't handle fkn thorium lol
Doctapeppur No, he’s making a point on how deceptive every day products can be without us having a clue. Flour was just an example of a thing we wouldn’t take notice if they added something dangerous to it.
I can’t imagine the safety conditions of the poor workers who had to make these health hazards…
Thank you for your intelligent and well informed video. I was on the verge of buying some SHUNGITE products and just thought I would first check to see if they were radioactive. Thank you again.
The radioactive boy scout would have had a field day with those products
Yikes!
I find it insane that a quack product would actually contain anything unusual at all, like why even add the thorium powder when you could just make a plastic bracket and be done with it.
well now nearly 2 years after this; these items have popped up in the dutch market as "anti 5G" items. so they are back and worse then ever they are marketed at poeple that activily think that blocking these products is an conpercicy.
Thank you for making this awesome video and saving so many people from fraud and cancer
Reminds me of the radium craze a century ago.
@@overclockedsanic5237 The folk selling the thorium have gotten cleverer at rebranding their stuff though.
irradiation
Ah, the good old days!
Or the Radon craze in the early 90s.