WHAT IS POWER BALANCE?

Power Balance is Performance Technology designed to work with your body’s natural energy field. Founded by athletes, Power Balance is a favorite among elite athletes for whom balance, strength and flexibility are important.

•HOW DOES THE HOLOGRAM WORK?

Power Balance is based on the idea of optimizing the body’s natural energy flow, similar to concepts behind many Eastern philosophies. The hologram in Power Balance is designed to resonate with and respond to the natural energy field of the body.

We'd all be better off if people asked questions about the health and medical care they receive, but too many people don't. That's one of the reasons we've got the most expensive and one of the least effective (we're 37th on the WHO ranking) medical care systems on the planet.

OK -
I have a rare and crippling/painful form of arthritis called Ankylosing Spondylitis. I have a rather bad case of it and
the progression of the disease would eventually cause me to probablt need hips/knees replaced as well as perhaps an
ankle, AND destroy most of the vertebrae in my back, eventually fusing into one solid but very brittle bone. Nasty.
Doc's options are only to supress the pain and supress the immune system, while telling me that the drugs used will
cause liver damage and weaken my defenses against other diseases and cancer. Nice. Also told that exercise is a must.
*yay cycling*
This was four odd years ago. So I found a support group online and discovered that there are hundreds of people all
over the world who had been using a dietary treatment accidentaly discovered by a British doctor. I tried the treatment,
and after a few months of tweaking it started getting results. Now, as long as I keep my diet within a very narrow range,
all meats and a few fruits, I can almost forget I have the disease, and I take no medication at all.
The problem with the diet is that it doesnt seem to work for everyone, AND there is no accepted reason for it to work. In
fact, all research we could find was done to try and DISPROVE all the ideas people had about why the diet worked. The
researchers weren't interested in actually testing the diet, they simply wanted to show that it couldnt work according to all
their current knowledge. So essentially now there are thousands of people with this disease who refuse to try the treatment
simply because they believe it cannot work. On top of that doctors arent really allowed to discuss it because noone has tried
to get a funded study together through the FDA and gotten it labeled an accepted treatment. Since doctors have malpractice
insurance they arent allowed to suggest things outside of FDA approved treatments or they are at risk for lawsuit or losing
their license.
So there is a case where not only is 'objective measuring standards' difficult and subjective (most of us have had to alter
the diet to get it to work, many of us in different ways - go figure that one out), but the research has all been aimed at
steering our beliefs away from the diet as a valid treatment.
If I was not a more 'probabilistic believer' - as in I refuse to believe that something is 100% right or wrong, then I would
never have given anything a chance. As it is, if something is probably wrong, but remains untried subjectively, then as
long as it is cheap and safe, for someone who is hurting the risk may be worth the reward. I tried ten or more stupid ideas
until this one worked.
Now I'm busting my ass on the bike so I can race for the first time next year. Stubborness rocks.