(Updated August 24, 2010: We do have a review available. Link at bottom of article or just look for the iRenew Hands On Review post)
Honestly? I don’t know how iRenew works, but I’ve seen a ton of these infomercials to start questioning the validity of something like this. Keep in mind, I’m no MD and if you’re looking for a full on review, look somewhere else. We haven’t purchased one to try out, but I’m working my Jedi mind tricks with our tight fisted Accounting folks.
Hopefully, I’ll have one soon. For now, it’s all about doing the research on this little bracelet.
Like you, curiosity and healthy doses of late night cervezas, led me to Googling iRenew and visiting the company website in search of more information. Beyond the infomercial and “testimonials”, there’s not much about the bracelet anywhere.
Reviews on-line (and this is my opinion) feel more than a little “planted” and faked. Mostly positive, but there are few sources (strangely enough, in Australia) that provide more than few grains of salt to the whole idea of bio-field manipulation (I’m sorry, “tuning”).
Like pet rocks, this idea of bio-field tuning or balancing has been around for a while now. You see it all the time in folks wearing quartz crystals or magnetic rocks (magnetite, ferrite, etc.) and the like to help tune your body’s frequencies.
However, and iRenew’s site points it out in little text at the bottom, none of these beneficial qualities have ever been qualified by the FDA. Yeah, I know, drugs and foods are being recalled and retested all the time, but it’s the FD-freakin’-A. You need some sort of clinical testing with a nice amount of participants to prove a therapies efficacy.
Unfortunately, claims and things like iRenew aren’t something the FDA readily looks into. Unless a whole bunch of people are seriously getting hurt from it, it’s not something that will gain much attention there.
That’s why, a quick search of FDA’s website and look into 510k clearances turns up nothing on iRenew or iRenew Bio Energy LLC (the name of the company who markets iRenew).
Moving over to USPTO and Google Scholar to find any sort of materials or approved patents on iRenew turn up nothing either. I got even geeky-er and tried looking up who owns iRenew’s website and came up empty as it’s a private registration from GoDaddy.com just created a few months back (March 2010), so that tells me even less.
All of this leads me to be highly skeptical of the product and I’m close to throwing this thing into the category of Slap Chop and Ginzu knives in terms of utter crappiness.
Still, I’m holding out hope that my request to buy one of these gets approved so I can try it out. What?! Free is free, you know?
(Editor’s Note: Updated 8/24/10, check out the hands on review
14 Responses to “iRenew Energy Balance System: Real Or Fake?”
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Everyone, I am telling you that cPRIME is the real deal. It truly works! It has been incredible for my family and I. Even elderly friends that I have experienced a difference in their daily lives. If you are doubtful, check out their youtube page:
http://www.youtube.com/joincprime#p/u/3/PiEjtf6XtPA
Here is the site that I have ordered all of my bands from:
http://www.mycprime.com/cschmall/flash.html
It is the best type product that we have ever purchased. I encourage everyone to get away from the complaints you have about iRenew and look at a real product that produces real results.
But perhaps you are interested in the iRenew Pet Pendants that hang on your pet’s collar and use the same special ‘frequencies’ as the bracelets to make your pet feel better…
“Our pets deserve an expanded level of vitality and restored health too! As an active member of iRescue®, not only do we give back to nature and the environment, we also want to assist in the wellness of your pet’s subtle energy field by introducing the iRenew® Energy Balance System Pet Pendant!
Simply attach to an existing collar and treat your pet with the same energy balancing frequencies infused in all our iRenew® BioField Technology™ products.”
THANK GOODNESS you and your various pets that are capable of wearing a pendant are tuned to the same ‘natural frequency’ so your pets can benefit!
http://www.irenewproducts.com/categories2.php?category=pet-pendant
Your pet will certainly thank you.
Just $9.99 plus $2.99 S&H
(By the way…Slap Chop and Ginsu knives at least actually work)
i think cPRIME is a bunch of bunk as well. a freaken wristband can’t do anything to the human body, unless it has a needle attached to which is pumping steroids into your body. Then I’ll believe it, but I wouldn’t buy that either.
If you are the idiot who think this thing works, you are completely mental.
And I mean mental in a scientific way!
Reasons
1) You’d be surprised how much the brain can do
2) Placebos go back real far. And as far as I’m concerned cPRIME and iRENEW are both placebos
3) It has no foundation of real science in it.
4) People who are being pushed and pulled? Wtf is that? That proves nothing. Again the scientific method has been pulled out. (for all I know the people pushing them down are lifting them back up, to make it look like they are “well balanced”)
No, they do not work. They are nothing more than a scam. I have a friend who was gullible enough to buy one and, of course, it did nothing. He ordered it a few months ago and it took longer than the guarantee time to get it (this is common, so they don’t have to honor the money back guarantee if you don’t like it). I had never heard of it before, but he said he had seen a commercial where people were getting help with balance and it showed, through actual cases of course, that it worked. When he tried to send it back, they required a reason, and told him that “it does nothing” was not a legitimate reason. He was floored. I was more floored at the fact that he fell for it and forked over the money, but he has a tendency to buy garbage like this. None has ever worked. Anyway, once these companies get your money, they will almost NEVER give it back, no matter what you do. Also, never buy anything from TV using your credit card…always use a money order so they can’t bill you again for something. Trust me, many will try, and yes, it is illegal.
Always remember, if you see a commercial for something that seems too good to be true, it usually is. For something like a “health” product, such as this, REAL medical doctors would have been prescribing this for their patients for years. These wonder products do nothing but take your money. This, the titanium bracelet, the magnet bracelet, the (and I love this one) magnets that go on your ear lobes…..these are all SCAMS.
I hope this helps.
source:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AkjxHeuDUCjeszpNsKY_Bo8jzKIX;_ylv=3?qid=20100618113624AAyohTs
Nikko, You could not be further from the truth. cPRIME is a REAL multi-million dollar company offering a REAL product that ACTUALLY WORKS. Google whatever you want. Thousands of bracelets have been sold to people that have benefited from them because the technology is REAL. The fact that you have looked at or posted on 5 other sites yourself would possibly make you a spammer too? cPRIME has made a huge impact on their market place.
It has made a huge difference in my real families lives. As well as thousands of others. You should try one out for yourself. Instead of bashing something you have not experienced for yourself, why dont you actually try a product and see the difference it can make in your life. Here is the site again for you to click on:
http://www.mycprime.com/cschmall/flash.html
Google cPRIME and see for yourself just how amazing this company is!
I’m wondering how much primedup is getting paid to endorse these bogus devices? If they were real they would have peer reviews to back them up. Can you provide these for us please?
@Scottycujo
I thought about not allowing his/her/its comments. Figured every side needed to have a say. My little non-scientific test sealed the deal for me. If I didn’t steal mine from my little bro, then I wouldn’t buy it. Curiosity and free made me do it. I’m not sure about the “millions” of satisfied users.
I purchased a cprime bracelet, and this is what it has done for me.
> Can breath better, when working out hard
> Less muscle fatigue when working out
> Less soreness after working out
> Sleep better
> Increased Flexibility
> Increased range of motion
I did not believe this bracelet could do all that. So I called a friend who has a Phd in Anatomy and Physiology, and is currently the head coach for a major league baseball team. I value his opinion when it comes to physiological questions.
He told me that the body when put in motion, produces a series of electrical reactions. He told me that this bracelet acts as an antenna, basically helping the body perform the electrical reactions faster.
If this bracelet, works only on placebo effect, why is it, that I can blindfold people, ask them to touch their toes, touch there wrist with a quarter, and nothing happens. then touch their wrist with the cprime, and they go farther down. Take the cprime off their wrist, they come up. Touch the quarter, nothing happens.
Something is going on!!!
Tripper is tripping on something, I will guarantee you, as a skeptical conservative.
You don’t get something for nothing, and these inert objects do not deliver or rebroadcast ANYTHING back to the wearer. Don’t be a fool, don’t waste your money and buy this stuff. They are counting on a lot of people buying something at a 1000% profit level from manufacturing costs (remember, junk costs little), and then counting on the difficulty in someone getting their money back on such a bogus product.
They are banking on you not screaming about what is a little bit of money for you, but multiplied over thousands, or millions, of sales means big money for them.
After being burned by false claims a few times, I usually don’t even give these things any credence. But today after hockey I was in the locker room and a guy took off a rubber bracelet with two round shiny metal disks. We asked what it was and then kind of laughed at him about it.
Then he told me to do that whole stand there with my hands behind my back and he pulled down and I staggered backward. Then he put the bracelet in my hand. To be honest, I felt a little weird like my skin was crawling. I know… crazy sounding but that’s what I felt. Then he tried to pull down on my hands again. I leaned back a bit but I didn’t fall back like I did. Then after a few seconds we tried again. And this is a pretty big hockey player mind you. And he actually lifted himself off the ground while pushing down on my hands.
I’m just a regular guy and that little demonstration pretty much amazed me. I’m a goaltender and balance is pretty important and that little bracelet that his little brother bought off e-bay really seemed to work.
I came home and bought the I-renew bracelet. So a true non-believer got converted. If it’s a hoax, then I’ll chalk it up to false confidence… like a lucky charm.
Apparently you can create a product, make false claims for it on TV and make a bunch of money without accountability. There is no screening process before putting these ads on TV. Of course after enough people have been fleeced and they’ve made their money they can be forced to recant the product. For example what happened to all those who bought those electronic ab belt exercisers that electrically stimulated muscle contractions? Were they jailed or even prosecuted? No, the belts were merely discontinued.
In my opinion we need consumer protection laws with teeth to filter out this crap!
It is my consensus that this product is fictional. If you watch the ad, you will see the pitchman throw the person off balance. He then affixes the bracelet and the subject has perfect balance. Why did that happen? Because the person was well aware of what was going to happen the second time around, and they were ready for it. Don’t waste your money folks. Just take the time to make other people aware of the scam, and spread the word over the Internet. Let’s put these people out of business…
Well, really happy to read this article, I have bookmarked your website and will turn back to read your new articles.
There is a video on youtube explaining and showing how the balance and strength demonstrations for these rip-offs are done. For example, the test where they have a person hold their hand to their side and push “down” on it, the trick is that they slightly change the angle they are pushing. On the first “test”, they simply push down but also slightly away from the body, which of course makes it much easier to force the person to bend to their side. The second time they push straight down staying close the person’s center of gravity. Not only can a person watching it not notice the difference, but niether can the poor sap that is being “tested”. See if you can trick someone the same way. It works the same way with the similar test with hands behind the back and the balance test where you have a person hold their arms out to their sides. Just slightly change the direction you push or pull on your subject. Please don’t give these criminals any more money than they have already stolen.