MIM-2 is not a medical device and is not intended to diagnose, treat or alleviate disease. If you have health problems, always consult a doctor. This article is educational in nature and does not constitute medical advice.
This spot used to hold our own piece about the Russian documentary “Water — The Great Mystery” from 2006. We have taken it down. This post explains why.
The film served us as an argument. A serious-looking documentary exists about water, therefore the subject must be serious: that is roughly how it worked. The reasoning is weak and we do not want to lean on it any longer.
A film is a form. Editing, music and pace can lend credibility to any sentence at all, including one that happens to be true. A viewer in an armchair has no way of telling one from the other, because the film leaves no time for it. A manufacturer who props himself up with somebody else’s documentary is borrowing credibility from form. Measurement never enters that account.
So we build nothing on it. We describe our own frame instead, and it has three parts.
First, a name that means something. Magnetostructuring is our name for an action you can repeat in your own kitchen — a vessel of water stands next to a working MIM-2 for roughly an hour. That is all. We put no physical definition underneath it, and we announce no change we cannot show you.
Second, openly stated signal parameters. We publish what an instrument can measure: an average pulse repetition rate of about 4 and 12 Hz, a pulse lasting some 0.2 ms, induction below 5 μT. Those numbers describe the device. About the water in your glass they say nothing.
Third, a ritual without promises. A few minutes in the evening are worth something when they come back at the same hour every day, because repetition on its own gives the day a shape. No mystery has to be added on top.
The cinematic frame runs the other way round. The promise comes first, then something is found to hold it up, and measurement is never needed. We are saying this in general terms and without examples, quite deliberately: summarising someone’s assertions, even in order to knock them down, extends their life.
Fascination with water is perfectly fine, by the way. Water genuinely is a basic condition for the body: in its 2010 opinion the European Food Safety Authority gave reference values for intake, 2.5 litres a day for men and 2.0 litres for women, counting all drinks and the water contained in food, at moderate temperature and moderate activity. Most of us fall short of those numbers. Fascination stops being fine only when it starts to pass itself off as science.
Life started in the Earth’s magnetic field and still sits in it; a day spent indoors and in a car changes only how much of it reaches us. MIM-2 supplements that exposure with a pulsed field of the parameters listed above, it has more than thirty years of user observation behind it, and it remains a wellness device, with no diagnoses and no health promises.
The text that stood here was not a lie. It was a shortcut: someone else’s form was meant to do the work of our own sentences. We prefer our own, even when they promise less.
MIM-2 is not a medical device and is not intended to diagnose, treat or alleviate disease. If you have health problems, always consult a doctor. This article is educational in nature and does not constitute medical advice.
