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From the FDA Vault: A Shocking ‘Exercize’

"Relaxacizor" was first sold in beauty salons to stimulate and relax muscles, then marketed as a passive exercise machine.

By: U S Food



In this second installment of FDA’s new history video series, the FDA’s historians venture into the “vault” to explore the Relaxacizor, originally sold in beauty salons as a device that stimulated and relaxed muscles, but subsequently marketed as a passive exercise machine.
 
Ads for the device assured users that they would lose weight while building muscle mass, a promise that was, of course, too good to be true. FDA took legal action against the company and by the early 1960s succeeded in having the devices removed from the market.
 
Keep an eye out for the reference to the TV show, “Mad Men,” which included a faux advertising campaign for Relaxacizor in the show’s first season.
 
Enjoy your visit to the FDA History Vault.

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