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Vibromassagers will improve the health of obese people
Last reviewed: 01.07.2025
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If the famous videos about miracle vibrating massagers that once filled the entire television space have not yet been erased from your memory, then the new discovery of scientists may interest you, especially those who believed in the miracles of advertising and bought themselves an amazing massager.
As it turned out, the device for lazy people who do not like to move, but like to be moved, is able to positively influence health. This does not mean that a person will necessarily lose weight.
Research conducted by scientists in New York has shown that such devices can be very useful for the health of obese people, namely, to help them fight a number of problems and diseases that are caused by obesity.
The results of the specialists' work were published in the FASEB Journal. According to the scientists, low-intensity vibrations lead to improvements in the body's immune system. The experts conducted experiments on overweight mice.
Experts say that if this effect is confirmed in trials involving obese people, it could lead to a number of clinical benefits.
Study author Clinton Rubin of Stony Brook University in New York and his colleagues "undermined" the health of rodents for seven months by feeding them a high-fat diet, which damaged their immune and skeletal systems.
Half of the experimental animals were exposed to 15-minute sessions of low-intensity vibrations daily.
These sessions were found to increase the number of T cells and B cells, which control the immune response and keep the immune system safe.
In addition, the vibrations helped reverse bone loss in mice on a high-fat diet, bringing their levels almost to those of healthy mice.
"If the effectiveness of this procedure is proven on people, then this method of helping obese people with the resulting health problems will be relatively cheap and accessible. And it is important that they will be able to restore their health without taking any medications," the scientists comment on their discovery.