Question:

I had an ionic cleansing foot bath today and was surprised with the dramatic discolouring of the water. I found out later that the water will turn colour no matter what. Is the ionic cleansing foot bath a scientifically proven method of removing a substantial amound of toxins from the body?

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1. Maybe This Will Help - December 4, 2009 4:41 am

   No, The ionic cleansing foot bath is not a scientifically proven method of removing toxins. Different manufactures of this device will have many documents claming the effectiveness of their device but none are even remotely proven scientifically. You are right the color changes on the divice no matter what and you are not sucking toxins out of your body. It comes down to simple placebo effect for people and if they get some relief. Our skin is a fantastic barrier to the outside would and it keeps the smallest of things from getting in or out of our body. Toxins do not leave our body through the skin and into this magic Ionic cleansing foot bath. To explain this whole topic is vast and you would not want to hear it but here it is in a condensed form. Our skin barrier will not let even the smallest of things “viruses” pass through either in or out of our skin. We don’t get sick because a virus passes through the skin on our hand, we get sick when we don’t wash our hands and put the viruses on it up to our eyes, nose or mouth which we can then let the virus inside our body. So if you can not even get this incredibly small virus through the skin you are not going to get the comparatively large heavy metals and complex large molecule like cholesterol through the skin as they claim. Bunch of bull.