The ‘HEALY’ device is an odd form of so-called alternative medicine (SCAM) if there ever was one. Let me cite just two examples to show you how it is being promoted:
Healy technology is German, based on the scientific principles of quantum physics Healy devices analyse and measure the energetic imbalances on three levels – physical, mental, ad emotional – in order to emit specifically customised frequencies which will readjust your emotional and cellular energy centres to align with bio-energetic balance.
The Healy is a bio-resonance tool that works to support your body’s energetic field and promote deep cellular healing.
Reduced cell voltage occurs in almost all cases of acute and chronic dis-ease. Reduced cell voltage causes the cell’s internal metabolic processes to malfunction leading to disease. The Healy helps restore equilibrium through the use of resonant frequency waves. It works to stimulate and restore optimum cellular function with the use of very specific, harmonic energetic currents.
The Healy is a small, very complex piece of equipment. Using precise frequencies and low intensity currents, the Healy works to reverse the process of decreasing cell voltage by restoring the natural voltage of the cell membrane. Compromised cells lead us to experience a debilitating range of different symptoms, such as the inability to concentrate, learning difficulties, stress/burnout, physical diseases and illness, slow recovery from injury, cellulite, skin breakouts, mental health challenges and emotional instability…
The Healy delivers energy frequencies to positively influence the body to function at it’s natural, harmonic frequency. We were not designed to be depressed, anxious, highly reactive or suffer from chronic pain and exhausting conditions of disease. These are symptoms of much deeper imbalances and your Healy is a way to take back control of your wellbeing to positively influence all the cells in your body to start functioning just as nature intended.
Such advertising is disturbing and dangerous. It might make some consumers believe that the ‘Healy’ is based on cutting-edge science, and they might thus use it for serious conditions which, in extreme cases, could cost them their life. In truth, the ‘Healy’ is based on the purest BS that I have encountered for a long time. But the proof of the pudding is in the eating, you might say. Perhaps the ‘Healy’ is based on odd assumptions, but what counts is that it works.
So, does it?
Is there any sound evidence that the ‘Healy’ is effective?
No!
There is, as far as I can see, no scientific evidence to suggest that the ‘Healy’ is effective to prevent, cure or alleviate any condition or symptom.
If that is so, why is the ‘Healy’ licensed by the authorities of several countries?
Search me!
I really don’t know. All I do know is that I am unable to find any good evidence that the ‘Healy’ helps anyone – except, of course, those entrepreneurs who earn their living by exploiting vulnerable patients.
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It might be almost as effective as the LoveTuner.
I’ve tried to read chunks of the website. It doesn’t specify what the frequency is OF – what is the oscillating medium? Is it frequency of sound waves in air, like the LoveTuner? Is it frequencies of electromagnetism?
On the other hand, the website does mention the term “Bio-energetics”, so it must be good………
Their European website includes this;
Notice: The Individualized Microcurrent Frequency (IMF) programs of the Healy Editions are not medical applications. They are not intended to cure, treat, mitigate, diagnose or prevent disease, have not been reviewed by a notified body and are not part of a conformity assessment procedure under the MDD/MDR. The information on these pages is for reference and educational purposes only. It should not be treated as a substitute for professional medical professional.
Considering what the rest of the site says that appears rather contradictory.
This site repeats, what look like, actual claims to treat various conditions, https://www.naviorganics.uk/pages/the-healy-device-uk
As they appear to be UK based, this would fall under the ASA’s remit, does someone care to raise a case with them? I assume there are European equivalents that could be notified?
may I ask you: what is the reason you use my [very unusual] 1st name in your email address?
Some people do this in order to track if a website passes on their email address to others.
For example if I were to subscribe to the website green, I might use an email address of zebra_green@ …
Then if one day I get an email with that address from blue, its evidence that green passed or sold my email address to blue.
Exactly the reason, nothing sinister! It means I can block people more easily and avoid sites that do pass on/sell -often despite what their privacy policy states. If you have a personal domain it does mean you can use “disposable” email addresses on individual websites, and if one is hacked and my details stolen, I can just block it and create a new email for that site if I wish to continue. Sorry if it worried you!
I think my first reply didn’t work… Exactly the reason nothing sinister!
The actual healy company seems to be based in the Netherlands, and their website also says:
“Notice: In the European Union Healy is a medical device for the treatment of pain in chronic pain, fibromyalgia, skeletal pain and migraine, as well as for the supportive treatment of mental illnesses such as depression, anxiety and related sleep disorders.”
Is that a bit like “FDA Approved”? i.e. where the FDA certifies an electrical device intended for medical application is not likely to electrocute you, meets safety criteria etc, but has no relevance to any acceptance of any efficacy? Many “weird and wonderful” devices claim FDA approved, and are clearly using it in a way to suggest it does mean efficacy.
The German Healy link that Edzard posted links off to an “Our Certificates” page, which does indeed have a certificate that refers to an FDA approval.
https://www.healydevice.com/OurCertificates.php
But the “certificate” is signed by the Principal Consultant, Harrington Consulting LLC, which is the company that handled the application for the FDA approval.
And what was that approval? It was for an FDA Premarket Notification 510(k), which simply is to have the device classified as an existing type of medical device, in this case “stimulator, nerve, transcutaneous, over-the-counter”.
The device has the 510(k) registration number K191075 shown on the “certificate”.
The Healy’s FDA 510(k) Premarket Notification itself can be seen here
https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfpmn/pmn.cfm?ID=K191075
You can read about what FDA 510(k) Premarket Notification is here:
https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/premarket-submissions-selecting-and-preparing-correct-submission/premarket-notification-510k
Dullspark quoted “Notice: The Individualized Microcurrent Frequency (IMF) programs of the Healy Editions are not medical applications. They are not intended to cure, treat, mitigate, diagnose or prevent disease, …”
Quite right: the following statement makes clear that it is the users of the device, not the device itself, who are intended to cure, treat, mitigate, diagnose or prevent disease.
“Healy Resonance:
This professional grade edition offers access to all the HH+ content, plus the HealAdvisor Analyse app with the Resonance and Aura modules.
With the analysis feature, the Healy can be used by individuals and practitioners to help discover what underlying issues are contributing to their own or their clients symptoms, which supplements or foods may be helpful to help them achieve optimum wellness, alongside offering clients sessions with the Healy.”
https://www.naviorganics.uk/pages/the-healy-device-uk
This is my favourite claim for the resonance package:
“The Aura module in the resonance package allows analysis of the Chakra system to discover deeper imbalances.”
They don’t really explain what the “microcurrent frequency” is. Are they talking about electrical alternating current? Through what – the skin?
Holy mackerel! Unlike the LoveTuner, Healy devices are not cheap. Between 500-4000 USD.
https://us.healy.shop/product-category/healy-editions/
They also sell expensive subscriptions to different apps and modules:
https://us.healy.shop/product-category/app-modules/
This device also may not have any internal software. One controls the device via software that’s downloaded. The software is available on Google Play.
So it might be possible to decompile the software and see what it’s actually doing with the input.
If it’s for android it’s probably just in java byte code form for which most IDEs support decompilation anyway, although the byte codes could have been obfuscated.
But given that the device cannot do what it’s claimed to, who cares what the software does?
exactly!
Seeing the software might make it obvious that it’s a conscious fraud, in which case it would be prosecutable and encourage regulators to ban it.
There’s a big difference between deliberately defrauding people, and selling something on the false belief that it works.
Same thing for other bioresonance devices, which don’t appear to be doing anything with the input from the electrodes, other than checking that it’s about right for a human being.
I suspect your knowledge of law is about the same as your knowledge of software engineering – just a 5 min google search. You think that having an erroneous belief absolves someone from legal action?
Software that doesn’t do anything with the input from the electrodes other than check that it’s consistent with being attached to a human being, would show that the writer intended to deceive.
I think in most cases decompiling software is against the law, so the evidence would be inadmissible.
And a good expert witness for the defense could easily suggest that the decompilation was done incorrectly and so missed out a key feature of the code, or simply that the person reading the decompiled source failed to understand it properly.
Decompiling software isn’t illegal in itself – you might have every right to do it. It depends on the situation.
But in the case of software you’d downloaded and had to agree not to do any reverse engineering in order to use it – that’s something one would have to talk to a lawyer about. Is looking for fraud “fair use” of copyrighted material? : )
One could decompile the software anyway, then tell some regulator if it looks like fraud. They could decompile the software on their own and decide whether it constitutes fraud. They can gather their own evidence.
The actual court evidence would have to be presented by some kind of regulator or expert – for a non-expert to say, “Here’s what’s going on in this software” wouldn’t be authoritative.
See Wikipedia, Reverse engineering, Legality:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_engineering#Legality
Also, describing exactly what the software is doing would demystify the machine. The sales tactics rely a lot on high-flown, vague language, with science concepts thrown around that the target market would almost never understand.
Quackwatch posted commentary about Healy at:
https://quackwatch.org/device/reports/a-skeptical-look-at-the-healy-bioresonance-device/
Many thanks, Jim.
I particularly liked the 144,000 so-called “Gold Frequencies”. What a Revelation!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/144,000
Here’s some more background information – and it turns out that this SCAM scam (not a typo) once again originates from the Home of SCAM, Germany:
https://themakemoneyonlineblog.com/is-healy-world-a-scam/
Here’s some more information on the person allegedly responsible for this pseudoscientific rubbish: https://www.psiram.com/de/index.php/Marcus_Schmieke
Ok, Schmieke has studied somewhere sometime something mystical Far Eastern which he is now turning into money. A real snake oil salesman.
interesting news about the Healy:
https://www.tga.gov.au/media-release/healy-world-australia-pty-ltd-fined-26640-alleged-unlawful-advertising-tens-device
It seems that the real purpose of the Healy machine is not to diagnose and treat people for illness, but to transfer money from gullible people to the less-gullible people in a Multi-Level-Marketing (MLM) scheme.
See https://pageone.ng/2020/09/12/healy-world-is-a-health-investment-scam/?fbclid=IwAR16MwsHdN522m2wwOSOEiOvQMZUBpYcitQ_awafLjyI7fEolOZvcbpesXQ
And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-level_marketing
The manufacturer of the Healy has just been fined for false advertising
https://www.tga.gov.au/media-release/healy-world-australia-pty-ltd-fined-26640-alleged-unlawful-advertising-tens-device