When your legs are tingling because you’ve been sitting too long in the same position — that’s from poor circulation. It’s a type of neuropathy.
Mostly mechanically related, like from crossing your legs or sitting for hours, and not a symptom of a disease but it shouldn’t happen to anyone even on a 13 hour flight.
It can happen no matter how old you are, but of course it comes on faster when you’re older.
This is a problem you won’t have anymore if you’ve been “vibrating” 10 minutes once every day or every other day for just a couple weeks.
It works. This is the first significant long-term benefit I noticed about a week after I bought my first (linear) vibration platform. I was using it every day.
The only way this happens is by those tiny capillaries are getting exercised with blood flow much more than during your usual daily routine.
For those of you who don’t know how tiny and restrictive a pilot’s chair is, here’s one from a 747:
Smaller and less comfy than a taxi or long-haul truck. But taxi & truck drivers have serious issues with nerve neuropathy as well.
From airlinepilotforums.com, “The attending neurosurgeon is a renowned surgeon who practices at Johns Hopkins. In his opinion the injury was most likely caused by repeated pressure associated with the arm coming in contact with armrest of the seat in the jet. He stated that pilots and taxi drivers make up a significant percentage of his patients.“
For the past few months I’ve been alternating two-weeks between my usual routine of 25mg testosterone gel every 2 or 3 days WITH AND WITHOUT the addition of 1 table spoon of Maca Powder every day.
The result was obvious: I can’t go back to only taking one or the other, the combination is so over-the-top youthful energy restoring.
I had tried maca powder about 8 years ago at age 32 and didn’t notice any benefit. It tastes bad, so I stopped after a few 1-pound bags of the organic brown powder.
Nearly a decade later and about 5 years of consistent testosterone (gel) use and daily use of progesterone for the past 2 years, a friend reminded me about maca. Now, feeling like I’m 25 (disclosure: I’m 40 lol).
Back to the opening line about alternating between these: I tried using only maca (and always progesterone of course) and stopping testosterone. Bad idea. After a week I felt like a zombie, just missing that high energy sharpness even though the maca keeps working well, taking both together is far better than either one alone.
If whole-body-vibration encourages stem cell proliferation, then… Wow, this is massively anti-aging.
Study published in 2009:Luu YK, Capilla E, Rosen C, Gilsanz V, Pessin JE, Judex, Rubin CT, (2009) Mechanical stimulation of mesenchymal stem cell proliferation and differentiation promotes osteogenesis while preventing dietary-induced obesity. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2689082/
Now, I’m not saying that WBV tech does increase in vivo mesenchymal stem cells. But this study claims that EXTREMELY LOW (like less than 0.5G’s) body-vibration really does this. It’s hard to believe. But could be true.
If I keep looking like early-30s when I’m 50, then I will accept that this is true LOL. Now, I’m just about to turn 40, so it could be accidental.
The guy claims (at 1:45 in this youtube video) it’s “an invention”, however WBV tech has been around for decades. Their machine is said to adjust to your body weight, to maintain intensity within this “small therapeutic window, around 0.4g acceleration” — HOW was this therapeutic window determined? It’s laughable the BS people will come up with to derive a selling-point for their patented products.
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On their website, they use 0.4G’s at 30Hz and it’s measured, apparently on the body, according to their graphic:
However, the most important medical study they reference uses half that, 0.2G’s at 90Hz on live rats, then dissect the rats and extract stem cells and related markers (e.g. serum levels of osteopontin) to determine that low intensity vibration is actually increasing stem cells.
In my opinion, (and I’m not a medical researcher, just a mechanical engineer) this intensity is SO LOW, that it could be replaced by walking (although that’s a very low impact frequency). Thus, why did their control group versus LMMS group show extreme percent changes?
While the study admits this low impact mechanical stimulation (LMMS) is massively “below peak strains generated during strenuous activity”. Thus, these VERY SIGNIFICANT percent changes are really amazing, when you think about how slight the impact vibration is.
Mechanical enhancement of stem cell proliferation and differentiation in DIO Beginning at 7 wk of age, C57BL/6J male mice were given free access to a high-fat diet (45% kcal fat, 58V8; Research Diet, Richmond, IN, USA). The mice were randomized into two groups, defined as LMMS (5 d/wk of 15 min/d of a 90-Hz, 0.2g peak acceleration mechanical signal, where 1.0g is earth’s gravitational field) and placebo sham controls (CON). The LMMS protocol(24) provides low-magnitude, high-frequency mechanical signals by a vertically oscillating platform,(25) and for this acceleration and frequency generates less than five microstrain [huh? five what?] in bone tissue, several orders of magnitude below peak strains generated during strenuous activity.(23,26)
Isn’t it interesting that this study cites a full disclosure of personal financial interest by pretty much all those involved, as “Footnotes” rather than “Full Disclosure”……
Footnotes
Drs Luu, Pessin, Judex, and Rubin have submitted a series of provisional patents to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office regarding the method and application of the technology. Dr Rubin is a founder of and consultant for Juvent Medical and is an inventor of the technology investigated herein, and both he and the company may benefit from the results of this research. No other authors state that they have conflicts of interest.
My Conclusion:
It would be wonderful if Whole Body Vibration, at a high or low impact and whatever frequency DID IN FACT INCREASE mesenchymal stem cells. Because,
#1 Stem Cell Therapy is extremely anti-aging.
#2 Mesenchymal therapies, injections, etc, are still extremely expensive.
I just can’t trust a study funded and operated by these guys because they’re obviously searching for results that benefit themselves financially. Conflict of interest, anyone? BUT THAT DOESN’T MEAN THEIR RESEARCH ISN’T VALID. Just less than trustworthy. Needs more money for more studies, and impartial operators.
Intensity so low in this study, and the LMMS machine they “invented” will not cause any of the immediate observable benefits from my machine, or Bulletproof Vibe, or Power Plate which are only about 5 or 10% less intense than Vibratation.
This “Product of Italy” tastes almost the same as San Pellegrino; yet it’s basically half the price. Thanks to governments deflating the value of your money, San Pellegrino was $1 per bottle even 10 years ago. Now it’s difficult or impossible to find for less than $1.50 since 2019 (usually $1.89 at Whole-Paycheck). This Whole Foods brand is a fair substitute.
Also at Whole Foods, this beef bone broth tastes gooooood, and it’s super-healthy. I cracked a rib recently, in a freak accident. Drinking a bottle of this every day or two.
Whole-body vibration exercise has been tested as a countermeasure against deterioration of body systems in spaceflight simulation (bed rest). The first Berlin BedRest Study demonstrated that resistive vibration exercise (RVE) can reduce muscle loss, prevent muscle weakness, prevent bone loss, and ameliorate pain during post–bed rest recovery as well as prevent or reduce changes in other body systems. A limitation of this study was the inability to determine the contribution of WBV in addition to resistance exercise (RE). The second Berlin BedRest Study showed that adding WBV to RE resulted in better efficacy to prevent bone loss, whereas RE and RVE were elolquivocal in reducing or preventing muscle atrophy. There was some evidence of an additional effect of WBV in modulating body composition changes when added to RE. Successful countermeasure exercise with WBV is possible when performed vigorously, i.e. with large loading force, and with more than three exercise sessions per week.
When a summary is worded this carefully, you can expect a fairly rigorous logical / scientific approach in the study details.
The study concludes, with one statement, “Whole body vibration training affects tPA and PAI-1 concentrations in healthy young men; and amplitude of vibrations seems an important variable in fibrinolytic factors.”
I don’t disagree with this generic conclusion. However there is very important data missing from the study:
— was the vibration source (WBV machine used in this study) extremely heavy? This is essential because the “amplitude” as measured without load will decreased in proportion to the user’s weight, if the weight of the vibrating device is not extremely heavy. Almost certainly the vibration amplitude will be significantly reduced when loaded, compared to unloaded. Thus other important data:
— How much did each participant weight? Or, what is the measured loaded amplitude for each participant, and at each frequency? 4mm at 60Hz (as suggested in the study) will not be happening in reality. No person would tolerate this intensity.
A little info about tPA, relevant to those at high-risk of heart attack:
