Okay, so I'm nerdy and enjoy researching
but here's some stuff I found interesting
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The claims for the medical benefits of gold date back many of thousands of years. Many ancient cultures, such as those in India and Egypt used gold-based medicinal preparations.
And where was the Zodiac of Denderah? That's right, Egypt!
Gold possesses a high degree of resistance to bacterial colonisation and because of this it is the material of choice for implants that are at risk of infection, such as the inner ear.
An interesting medical product now being marketed in Japan is a gold-titanium patch, based on the theory of ion adjustment in the human body. It is considered that fatigue and stiffness is generally caused by the increase of positive ions in the body, causing the interruption in the circulation of blood. The gold-titanium patch adjusts this inbalance of ions, by inducing an electric stimulus (due to the galvanic effect between the gold and titanium metals.) The pain is alleviated by the induced warmth.
Gold is the perfect raw material for rapid testing. A rapid test is an inexpensive, disposable, membrane-based technique that provides visual evidence of the presence of an analyte in a liquid sample. Applications for rapid tests include clinical uses (fertility tests, tumor markers, toxicology, allergies), agricultural uses (food safety, plant and crop diseases) and environmental uses (biological and environmental contamination.)
For all you who are convinced the ceremony is to get Bree preggers.