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In true TikTok fashion, the social media platform has introduced another viral product that has users crazed. This time, it isn’t a shower scrubber or a water pik flosser. It’s an exercise machine users claim is helping them shed pounds without the strenuous activity of a full workout.

Viral Vibrating Exercise Plates

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Every day, users are posting videos of themselves balancing, squatting, or doing pushups on vibration plates. The device, essentially a trembling stepper platform, claims to offer the benefits of a full workout and whole-body vibration. Exercising has obvious benefits. Improved heart function, better sleep, stronger bones, weight control, decreased stress and the like. Whole-body vibration, whose health benefits are still under investigation, boast benefits such as weight loss, increased bone density, promoted lymphatic drainage, improved circulation and beyond.

So, does it actually work?

“It’s not a silver bullet, but it has its certain merits,” Dr. Jörn Rittweger, head of the division …