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 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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Negative Ion Products Are Actually RADIOACTIVE

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. Gamma spectacular: https://www.gammaspectacular.com/ Check out Adam's stuff: https://twitter.com/nanographs _________________________________________________________________ Support the show and future projects: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thethoughtemporium Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/thoughtemporium Become a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV5vCi3jPJdURZwAOO_FNfQ/join Store: https://teespring.com/stores/the-thought-emporium _________________________________________________________________ My Social Media Pages: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thethoughtemporium/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thethoughtemporium/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/TTEchironex Website: http://thethoughtemporium.com/ _________________________________________________________________ Special thanks to my amazing patrons and channel members! A_Demigod Adam Silver Afrotechmods Alexander Eisele Alexander Marunowski Alexandre Guhur Ambrose Andre Andrei-Gabriel Andrei-Gabriel Andrej Karpathy andrew james morris Andrew Jewell Andy Anita Fowler Applied Science Austin Morris Ben Reay Bennet Huch besenyeim BinarySplit bluejay BPS.space Brad Walker Brady OBrien Brand Caso Chris the Mad Sciencer Comrade Spamuel Cronenberg Jerry Dakramar Danny Chan danruff5 Dave Yeagly David Choitz Dean Pierce Dmitry Sadovnikov Drew DeVault dstensnes Dustin Parciasepe Elliot Turner emptymachine Erwan Martin ethan lutz Eugene Pakhomov Ezekiel Dohmen Filipsi Gal Tibi Harry Pottash ian burghardt Jack Brown James Jaroslav Henner Jase Smith Jim Mussared John John De Witt Jon Adams Jonas Abreu Jonathan Dashe Joshua Pedrick Justa Noman Justin Hendryx Kevin Kevin Forsythe kn0tsin Krys Kamieniecki Lambda GPU Workstations Lee Goymer Leon Leon Schutte Leonid Usov Leslie Rohde Liam Scaife Louis Cashin Luc Ritchie Marco Reps Martin Haugsand Martin Kemka Matthew Broerman Matthew Reece-Ford Maxwell Meinhard Absalon Micah Michael Chatzidakis Michael Duran Michael Santiago Mike Miller Monsyne Dragon Neil Svedberg Nicholas Fletcher Owen Ashurst Owen Burns Patreon Patrick Sweetman Paul Emmerich Paul Klopping Paul Richmond Paul Toensing Philipp Weber Pietro Saccardi Piper Elinor Rae McIntosh Rajan Chari Ralph Dratman Rauni Rikki Guy Robert Boll robert braun Robert Miller Robert S. Rolf Reich Pedersen Ruben Sam Pinches Sean Coates Sebastiaan Schlappi Simon Convey Simon Hallam SkaveRat Stephen Anderson tain Tajallah Sims TheOneTrueJames TheQuickestBrownFox Tiffany Bennett Toli Tom Bullock Tómas Árni Jónasson Valery Belayev Vedran Bajic Virgil Ilian Walter Jones xj9 Yannik Neuhaus Zwaluw Áva Eriksdóttir Channel members: Alpha Centuri Arda Arslan Chris Kosik Aziz Kavalcıoğlu Eric Reiter Paweł Michalak shreyas ubale BasiC7786 Jacob Stewart Mellonoma The Great Moritz Imen Emi Li Incognito AI abhijith raghu Faris Faux Matt Ettler Chris Modjeska andré bernard mennicken Jose Ayala Shwe Yin Aye Radio Astronomy (MSAS) stevenson primacio Ajit A Guillermo Alum flantc ProjectNightingaleForResponsibleMedicine Dr. Brandon Wiley Jonathan Nagel István Kiss Jorm Skagh txyzinfo trevor skjerpen adamklam1 Herbling Anthony M Kush Agarwal

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SkaveRat

I really need to build myself a cloud chamber. Would love to have one built into a coffee table in the living room.

Cygnus

I hope you don't mind but I want to forward this video to the consumer protection agency in my country. Should I wait until the video is available for everyone?

Dakramar

The moral implications of these products are just despicable, especially since a lot of remission patients tend to fall for these alternative medicine thingies. Great job on the video tho, looking forwards to the antimatter already!

Kevin Faccenda

So does thorium actually make negative ions? It didn't seem super clear from your video. How do beta particles interact with air? This is also some disturbing shit. I guess thorium is cheap enough they can add it to this stuff rather than just doing as the salt lamp people and just making facetious claims.+

WizardTim

When you said you measured with your second tube which can also measure alpha particles you got 5.6µSv/hr it looked like you didn't use an alpha/beta shield to measure gamma only, pretty much all Geiger tubes' CPM conversion factors (eg. 3,000 CPM/mR/hr) are calibrated for Cs137 gamma only dose rates only so also exposing the detector to low energy alpha/beta particles will falsely bias it higher. With that said I would love to see those companies face legal repercussions for misleading the general public to irradiate themselves because 'magic ions make you heathy' bullshit.

Brady OBrien

Beta Minus (β−) decays are electrons and neutrinos, which aren't technically ions, but are negatively charged. Alpha particles/decays are basically helium nuclei, which are positive ions.

kendall

it makes lots of ions, both positive AND negative (slightly weighted toward positive because it's mainly spitting out alphas) because the alpha particles smack into air and dissociate the electrons from atoms as they bounce around like a tiny derailed freight train