Apple introduced with iOS 8 the Health app and the HealthKit development kit, thanks to this we can have a library with all the data about our health that we can collect, but the vast majority of people on our Health app board only have calories, steps, weight, height and hopefully heart rate.
VitaStiq becomes the perfect friend of the Health app, non-intrusively (without piercing or doing any type of damage) and using techniques developed over hundreds of years in sections of alternative medicine, it is able to measure the levels of vitamins and minerals in your body.
By connecting this simple «pencil» to the jack port of our iPhone we will be able to measure vitamin and mineral levels of our body, using techniques related to electrical conductivity this small and affordable device will be able to fill our health library with relevant data about our body.
Until now measuring these levels required expensive and bulky medical equipment, but those are the advantages of technology, which advances and makes things more useful, cheap and comfortable.
So that they explain it to you Their creators I'm going to leave you a message:
If the simple way or the immense possibilities do not attract monitoring obsessives (like me), surely its price will, and that is why only $ 99 we can have a gadget of these characteristics, who does not find it incredible?
More amazing and even funny is its operationDepending on the area where it is used, the device will recognize a different mineral or vitamin. I am going to leave you the measurement «map» so that you will be amazed like me.
The device went on sale in IndieGoGo financing mode, where it exceeded their expectations by achieving almost 200% financing (almost 100.000 dollars at $ 99 per unit, imagine), currently you can continue to use their campaign to get a unit, just a week ago that the campaign ended so the device is really new. If you are interested you just have to follow this link (click here) and get hold of your unit now.
It is worth mentioning that this product does not have a solid scientific basis and it is rather considered as "alternative medicine" as insufficient evidence of its effectiveness has been found, that is, you may or may not believe in its operation and in the theory on which it is based developed by Dr. Reinhold Voll, but scientifically this theory is unproven.
It is not necessary to call a sheep or anything similar to anyone, simply state your points against and so the other readers or even myself can comment, rectify or reflect on it 🙂
Sorry, I was not saying it as an insult ... I was only referring to the "herd / herd" behavior (easily contemplated in herds of sheep) whereby people feel more comfortable doing what others around them are doing "out of inertia", because it is more comfortable to assume that if others have already thought about it ... they will be right, why are they going to think about it ...
My points against? Well, there is absolutely no scientific evidence (nor can there be because the idea itself is absurd, but hey…) or demonstrable that these biological markers can be measured in the way this invention proposes. In fact, it is based on acupuncture ... which is a practice that is not proven to be of any use beyond placebo (and which, by the way, is always sold as "ancestral" and "oriental" ... and if you investigate, you will see that it is neither one nor the other ... they are yet another fallacious arguments that scammers use to make you believe that something is good). A minimum of knowledge in biology, physics, chemistry ... is enough to realize the absurdity of the approach.
To be able to argue that something performs some function or is useful for something ... it is essential to prove it. It is not enough to say it. And to prove it is to present a SERIOUS scientific study (it is not worth anything, it must follow some guidelines and meet some requirements) that of course meet some minimum conditions associated with the scientific method, such as reproducibility (if only they with a rare esoteric study they have obtained results but nobody is able to reproduce the experiment and obtain the same results… it is useless).
You have to give up the comfort of "believing" in anything. Thanks to science and the scientific method, right now you live in houses, you have computers, you surf the internet and you think about these things by reading this blog. The contribution of "blind beliefs", superstitions, religions, etc. they have been ... weighed down by advances in society, ignorance, scams, fears, frustrations, control, wars ...
In agreement with both you and Luis Padilla, thank you very much for spending time in your comment, if you consider any correction necessary in the article, your advice will be welcome 🙂
It seems to me that you make it quite clear. A device that if you believe in its "theory" will be exceptional, and no, you don't believe in it, it is useless.
Everyone can believe in what they want and throw their money as they like, but as the article indicates, the scientific basis for this "device" is nil, as it cannot be otherwise. If we accepted that by clicking on the skin, the levels of vitamins and minerals in the blood could be determined, which is already a lot to accept (as well as accepting a boat as an aquatic animal), and having to accept to do it on the right side of the fifth finger of the Hand determines vitamin E and doing it on the left side (just a few millimeters beyond) determines folic acid, it is something that makes anyone with minimal notions of physiology laugh.
To give an opinion on a discipline, you have to know it, study it and apply it, it seems to me that you have no idea.