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Our bodies do not have it straightforward. Each day, we’re exposed to poisons in the air, the water and even in our food! It’s hard to avoid this exposure irrespective of how healthy of a life you try to live.

Unless you’re able to eat only organic produce, you could be getting pesticides in your vegetables and vegetables. If you eat meat, you could be exposed to giant amounts of antibiotics and even growth hormones! Fish can contain mercury and other water carried contaminants.

These poisons make it troublesome for your liver to function correctly, can lower your metabolism (leading to weight ) and have plenty of other dangerous effects. The environmental poisons we are commonly exposed to may cause numerous forms of cancer, persistent fatigue syndrome and other ailments.

Naturally, you would like to eliminate these poisons from your body as completely as possible. You could have seen some of the numerous commercials for de-toxing foot pads. It seems a fair enough idea – but do these foot pads really work?

Kinoki and Avon are among the corporations that promote these detoxifying foot pads. These pads were tested on the program 20/20 and by a number of bloggers concentrating on the field of health.

The results? Discontent . Almost all of the subjects who tried the foot pads reported no change in their health or sense of well-being; surprising given that these were prepared subjects who were hopeful that the pads would be effective for them.

The makers of these foot pads make the allege that their products turn dark as they pull poisons from the body thru the bottoms of the feet. One thing which all of the participants did agree on is the pads did, in fact turn dark. The other thing the partakers came to a general agreement on is that they smelled nasty – some even announced the smell managed to permeate their bedding.

So what about laboratory tests on the pads? Again, upsetting ; these showed no poisons whatsoever in the pads after being worn. In reality, testing proved that the pads turned dark when exposed to water – the darkening of the pads was caused by perspiration, not toxins. A straightforward test with distilled water proved that this alone would turn the pads dark.

The conclusion? Simple enough – do not squander your money. These pads don’t detoxify the body and are either a well intentioned but ill conceived product or an outright scam.

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Introduction to Foot Detox

Foot spa, foot detox is known as Ashiyu in Japan. It is a procedure that soaks the feet in a low hot spring. When the feet get warm, then the whole body will be warm.  The whole body will loosen up just like taking a bath in a hot spring.

Foot detox came from Japan 1,600 years ago. It is used there to cure sickly old people and monks who are in pilgrimage. Foot detox is usually done in the hot spring flowing out of the rock at night. The old sick Japanese people soak their feet in this hot spring before going to bed at night to release stress and exhaustion. This will result in a healthier morning every time they wake up.

The Modern Foot Detox

Modern foot detox is done by soaking the feet for 30 minutes in a water and salt bath energized through a low-voltage electrical current. Makers claim that you can dramatically detox through the feet. They say that positively charged ions are sent into the body which attach themselves to negatively charged toxins and they are drawn out of the body through the feet. 

On the other hand, none of manufacturers in Japan maintain that it can do detoxification through feet. They just maintain that it can assist in revitalizing the health, eliminating exhaustion and other stress-related sickness. 

The Reality on Foot Detox

Are the benefits of foot detox really true? In fact, there is no medical proof that they remove toxins from the body. Manufacturers claim that the water changes color due to the release of toxic substances through the 2000 pores of the soles of the feet.  Toxins from the joints are supposed to turn the water orange or brown, toxins from the kidneys turn the water yellow and if the water turns black water it indicates that the toxins have been released from the liver, gallbladder or bowel. Skeptics claim that the color changes are due to oxidation of the iron in the water.

Energy Medicine

As a result of experiments done on the water by skeptics some manufacturers now put more emphasis on the “balancing” of “energy” instead of the removal of toxins.  There is no doubt that many practitioners really believe they enable the body to release toxins by balancing the body’s energies and there are many people who will testify to the fact that their symptoms and health improved after a course of  ionic foot detox treatments.

Some doctors who practise live blood analysis have found that there were clear improvements in the blood of people who had been treated with the ionic foot detox. Cells that were preciously clumped together became separate and were able to move freely in a healthy manner.  

Western medicine does not seem to understand energy in the same way as the Chinese. According to Chinese medicine experts, there are spontaneous effect areas in the feet which relate to all parts of the body.  Reflexology, the ancient art of treating the body through the feet, is based on this fact . So even though the energy difference cannot be measured in a way that satisfies mainstream Western medical doctors it does not mean that we should dismiss this foot detox as a scam.

 

Sandy Halliday, a former nurse, is a nutritionist who became interested in detox and natural therapies because of her own health problems. She is the author of a new ebook The Definitive Detox Diet

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