a friend from long island and thus always a great skeptic sent me an advertisement from an airline magazine. apparently the face trainer is a helmet-mask device that “works out facial muscles for a natural looking lip. ” the advertisement says “no creams no injections no fuss – just 10 minutes a day and your face trainer is all you need to look younger and healthier. ” the advertisement further states “in a 60-day clinical trial participants achieved 71% reduction in sagging skin. ” i found that quite amazing but i’m not sure what the “clinical trial” was. i wonder if i asked for a copy of this clinical trial if they would have one for me. i certainly did not see anything about it in a recognized medical journal. if any product were that good you can bet i would know about it by now. i wish life was that easy where all we had to do was wear a device and somehow our anatomy magically changes. our skin would look younger become tighter and all sags and bags would just go away. wow! this would be real progress. sometimes i find these types of advertisements offensive because they demean the intelligence of the reader. despite the proclamation that products like this will “give your face a lift without needles or knives ” don’t expect a miracle. and those well-chosen words “without needles or knives” are deliberately crafted by the writer of the ad to incite terror in the reader’s brain. to scare you so that you make the emotional part of your brain believe this device can do what the common sense part of your brain says it cannot do. remember when something seems too good to be true it usually is.
can any advertised device reduce my sagging skin?