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 Alexander Yuan-Chun Chiu (born February 8, 1971) is a San Francisco, California businessman who has invented a number of products that he claims achieve remarkable results in healing. Image File history File links 2002pic3. ...
February 8 is the 39th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ...
Nickname: The City by the Bay; Fog City Location of the City and County of San Francisco, California Coordinates: Country United States of America State California City-County San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom Area - City 122 km² (47 sq mi) - Land 121. ...
A businessman (sometimes businesswoman, female; or businessperson, gender neutral) is a generic term for a wide range of people engaged in profit-oriented enterprises, generally the management of a company. ...
An inventor is a person who creates new inventions, typically technical devices such as mechanical, electrical or software devices or methods. ...
Products
Magnetic devices Alex Chiu markets plastic magnetic rings which he calls Immortality Devices. He claims that these can arrest and even reverse the aging process, lessen the intensity of most diseases, and lead to physical immortality when worn nightly. Chiu believes that the rings work by increasing the body's "cellular magnetic flux". It has been suggested that Longevity genes be merged into this article or section. ...
A disease or medical condition is an abnormality of the body or mind that causes discomfort, dysfunction, distress, or death to the person afflicted or those in contact with the person. ...
Immortality (or eternal life) is the concept of existing for a potentially infinite, or indeterminate, length of time. ...
Drawing of the structure of cork as it appeared under the microscope to Robert Hooke from Micrographia which is the origin of the word cell. Cells in culture, stained for keratin (red) and DNA (green). ...
Magnetic flux, is a measure of quantity of magnetism, taking account of the strength and the extent of a magnetic field. ...
The rings are worn on the pinky finger of each hand and must be aligned in a certain direction. Wearing them incorrectly is supposed to reverse their effect, greatly harming the user's health.
Chiu provides free directions on how to construct his Immortality Devices. The devices consist of an adjustible ring of plastic (grey or white for normal 1000 Gauss, black for neodymium at 21,000 gauss) with teeth. Two magnets are set in each ring, one above and one below the finger, and they are marked on the plastic with a positive and negative sign. For a biography of the mathematician, see: Carl Friedrich Gauss The gauss, abbreviated as G, is the cgs unit of magnetic flux density or magnetic induction (B), named after the German mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss. ...
His rings come in a cheaper and weaker variety of earth magnet, and neodymium, a superior form which he claims have a much stronger effect on health. Chui also sells magnetic foot braces, which accompany the rings. General Name, Symbol, Number neodymium, Nd, 60 Chemical series lanthanides Group, Period, Block n/a, 6, f Appearance silvery white, yellowish tinge Atomic mass 144. ...
Chiu has claimed in the past to be working on a true "heal the handicap" machine, based upon coil magnets, and possibly electromagnetism. In 2006 he abandoned the concept claiming it did more harm than good and developed the alternative Gorgeouspil and Super Chi Flush products. A coil is a series of loops. ...
Electromagnetism is the force observed as static electricity, and causes the flow of electric charge (electric current) in electrical conductors. ...
2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Food and ingested medicine Chiu's Gorgeouspil is advertised as being able to make its users "more and more gorgeous everyday", and Chiu himself uses them. If taken daily in conjunction with the rings, Chiu believes that Gorgeouspils can alter the appearance of the user, eventually making them look "even more gorgeous than supermodels". He claims that his pill can change facial bone structure, shrink the skull, straighten the spine and cure any physical deformity. None of these claims have been independently verified.
Chiu's website also offers a Super Chi Flush herbal compound which he implies can cure herpes and cancer, although the site is careful to make no specific medical claims.
Chiu has also sold American ginseng and green tea through his website, which he believes enhance the effects of his immortality rings. He has also sold some sort of rose oil product. Species Panax ginseng - Chinese Ginseng Panax japonicus - Japanese Ginseng Panax pseudoginseng Panax quinquefolius - American Ginseng Panax vietnamensis Panax is a genus of about five or six species of slow-growing perennial plants with fleshy roots, in the family Araliaceae. ...
Green tea (绿茶) is tea that has undergone minimal oxidation during processing. ...
Rose oil, meaning either rose otto or rose absolute, is the essential oil extracted from the petals of various types of rose. ...
The Gorgeouspil ingredients: Nettle leaf, Peppermint leaf, Garlic, Noto Ginseng, American Ginseng, St. John's Wort extract, Vaterian Root, Onion, Wild Yam, Black Pepper, White Pepper, Dong Quai, and Magnesium Stearate. (100% vegetarian)
His other herbal Super Chi Flush's ingredients: Dong Quai, Korean ginseng, Hoelen, Ramulus Mori, Shitake, Reishi, Kelp, barley grass, Marjoram, Basil, Thyme, Parsley, Ginkgo Biloba, American ginseng, ginger, black pepper, and Licorice. Most of it is Chinese herbs. Also 130 mg of Vitamin C in every teaspoon of Chi Flush.
Fortune telling Chiu's website sells Bible Decoder software which he claims can predict the future by observing the implications of secret codes in the Old Testament, using existing bible code systems. Note: Judaism commonly uses the term Tanakh. ...
Bible codes, also known as Torah codes, are words, phrases and clusters of words and phrases that some people believe are meaningful and exist intentionally in coded form in the text of the Bible. ...
Chiu also believes in the use of I-Ching in telling the future. The I Ching (often spelled as I Jing, Yi Ching, Yi King, or Yi Jing ; also called Book of Changes or Classic of Changes) is the oldest of the Chinese classic texts. ...
Chiu's views Chiu's claims about his products are based on the thousand-year-old Chinese alternative health treatment, magnet therapy, which he believes he has perfected with his ring system. Several pre-existing theories on his page are credited as being his own invention. Magnet therapy, or magnetic therapy, or magnotherapy is an alternative medicine claiming that certain medical disorders can be effectively treated by exposure to magnetic fields. ...
He is considered by skeptics to be an infamous snake oil salesman and quack. For snake oil in cryptography, see Snake oil (cryptography) Clark Stanleys Snake Oil Liniment. ...
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Business dealings Some claim that he has not honoured his refund policy because he claims his customers are lying or incapable of knowing that his device actually works.
Free rings for advertising Chiu offers an online program which distributes free rings for clicks on a banner or link that directed to his site. For 80 clicks, an advertiser affiliate would receive a free pair of basic rings. This advertising tactic is largely responsible for his internet cult fandom and large levels of expansion. Some had claimed difficulty with this offer, in a variety of areas: - Problems logging into the affiliate page at times.
- Time consuming calculation of unique clicks
- Lack of correlation between unique click count and bar-graph stated click counts
- Clicks lost when order is placed, yet order is not sent out
- The number of clicks required seems to increase, from previously 50, to 80 under direction of a business associate.
- Order said to have been sent out not received.
Most cases have been resolved due to Alex's keeping a phone line open at all times which he does personally answer. In one case, when the free earth magnet rings were not received, to make up for the trouble and delay he sent out Neodymium rings as compensation.
As time progresses many of the problems experiences have either been ironed out or are easily resolvable.
His website is available in a number of languages, including English, and has links to pages explaining his plans for, among other things, a world-wide corporation, a device for teleportation and a method for exactly divining the future. One of his web pages [1] claims that he is not Taiwanese but Chinese and that his device for eternal life is not designed for Taiwanese who deny being Chinese. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...
The word Teleportation was coined in the early 1900s by American writer Charles Fort to describe the strange disappearances and appearances of anomalies, which he suggested may be connected. ...
This article is about the history, geography, and people of the island known as Taiwan. ...
Taiwan independence (Traditional Chinese: å°ç£ç¨ç«‹; Pinyin: , PeÌh-oÄ“-jÄ«: Tâi-oân ToÌk-liÌp; abbreviated to å°ç¨, Táidú, Tâi-toÌk) is a political movement whose goal is primarily to create an independent and sovereign Republic of Taiwan (out of the lands currently administered by the...
According to his website, he follows the Jewish religion and bases much of his philosophy on the Old Testament (referred to as the Tanakh by Jews). He claims that immortality is possible as described in the Tanakh [2], and offers predictions as to who he believes will be the Messiah. [3]. He is also a supporter of the state of Israel, believing its establishment to be a fulfillment of Biblical prophecy. Judaism is the religion of the Jewish people. ...
Note: Judaism commonly uses the term Tanakh. ...
Tanakh ‎ (also Tanach, IPA: or , or Tenak, is an acronym that identifies the Hebrew Bible. ...
In Judaism, the Messiah (מָשִ××™×—Ö· Standard Hebrew Arabic: Al-Masih, المسيØ), Tiberian Hebrew , Aramaic ) initially meant any person who was anointed by a prophet of God. ...
The word Bible refers to the canonical collections of sacred writings of Judaism and Christianity. ...
Prophecy, in a broad sense, is the prediction of future events. ...
Alex Chiu has also achieved internet fame through pop-culture flash movies called animutations. Animutation is the practice of using Macromedia Flash to create absurd, silly, and corny videos of strange (usually non-English) music. ...
He has also been featured on the podcast Infected with Martin Sargent. While in a cemetery, he said to Martin Sargent "I am a loser, girls don't like me...it doesn't help [that] girls keep on thinking you're Frankenstein, because, you know, you think you can make people live forever." The podcast also featured Alex Chiu singing a karaoke version of Alphaville's Forever Young. Infected is a monthly podcast (Internet radio show) hosted by Martin Sargent. ...
A Karaoke machine Karaoke (Japanese: カラオケ, from 空 kara, empty or void, and オーケストラ Åkesutora, orchestra) is a form of entertainment in which an amateur singer or singers sing along with recorded music on microphone. ...
Alphaville is a German synthpop/-rock music group which gained popularity in the 1980s. ...
Forever Young was the title track from West German rock/synthpop group Alphavilles debut album, Forever Young, released in 1984. ...
While not the rings specifically, magnet therapy in general has been featured in the Penn & Teller: Bullshit episode on Alternative Medicine, where it was shown to probably be placebo. A recent study does make the claim over its use in patients healing from Polio. [citation needed] Magnet therapy, or magnetic therapy, or magnotherapy is an alternative medicine claiming that certain medical disorders can be effectively treated by exposure to magnetic fields. ...
Poliomyelitis (polio), or infantile paralysis, is a viral paralytic disease. ...
Google As of August 2006, Alex Chiu's website has been blocked by Google, for unknown reasons; nevertheless it can be found through Yahoo and other search engines. Google, Inc. ...
See also Magnet therapy, or magnetic therapy, or magnotherapy is an alternative medicine claiming that certain medical disorders can be effectively treated by exposure to magnetic fields. ...
External links Martin Sargent, circa 2001 Martin Sargent (born August 18, 1975) is a former American television personality. ...
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