When I think of detox, I think of drug rehab---I think of people being forced off drugs and having all the withdrawals, etc. I certainly do not think of this.
So if you put this thing on your foot, could you detox from drugs without the negativity of withdrawal?
Ugh. Just looking at their website disturbs me. Their even more disturbing commercial is the reason I was curious. I wish I had never seen it actually, yet there is a part of me that wants someone I know to try it and report back.
Any takers?
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Actually, detox "foot baths" have been used in spas and some pedicure places for years as I understand it. Apparently it does SOMETHING because the water or solution goes from transparent and colorless to dark and murky.
Who knows how...
Ugh. Why does that bother me so much??? That's really what it is---the weird turning dark...
Complete and utter witchdoctory. It removes "toxins" AND cellulite! Raises your IQ as well I can only assume! Contains IONS!! (Is the public so scientifically ignorant that they don't know what ions are??).
It's amazing that the creators and marketers of this product think that "other cultural ancient wisdom" can co-exist with pseudo-scientific jargon without contradiction.
As for the thing turning black...who knows...that could be any manner of benign chemical reaction that has nothing to do with what they're claiming (ever combine iodine and starch?). Im sure this absurd garbage will soon have a place at the skepdic.com.
Every time I think about it I shudder.
Yeah, the whole "ion" thing was pretty ridiculous. I remember thinking "Ions...? What the hell?" I mean, yeah, you need them to live, but they don't quite explain how your foot bed is the crossover point for all this mumbo-jumbo.
We both know, though, that the gullible public will buy into a lot of mysticism.
buy me one and I will do it. My IQ is rather low
Yeah, the whole "ion" thing was pretty ridiculous. I remember thinking "Ions...? What the hell?" I mean, yeah, you need them to live
I think you're thinking of electrolytes. An "ion" is simply a charged particle of matter...meaning it has too few or too many electrons (cation/anion): thus, anything is potentially "ionic". It's utterly meaningless in the context it's being employed here (and in other snake-oil pitches).
go here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion
and look under "application"
I learned about it in Human Anatomy & Physiology.
As I said...you're thinking of electrolytes, which is an application of the general concept "ions".
see here:
In physiology, the primary ions of electrolytes are sodium (Na+), potassium (K+), calcium (Ca2+), magnesium (Mg2+), chloride (Cl-), phosphate (PO43-), and hydrogen carbonate (HCO3-). The electric charge symbols of plus (+) and minus (-) indicate that the substance in question is ionic in nature and has an imbalanced distribution of electrons.
This level of specificity isn't applied in the ad in question: all they say is the product "contains ions!"...which is as meaningless as saying the product contains matter.
That's exactly what I meant.
An ion is an ion. My point has nothing to do with electrolytes because as you noted, the ad doesn't say anything other than that the pad has ions in it (not what kind of ions). Which is meaningless...the only reason it will appeal to people is because they don't know what ions are for and if this medical miracle contains them it must(!) be good!!!
Do we need ions to live? Yeah, some of them...not all of them. Do we need the ones they supposedly put in the pad? No, cuz if we did, anyone using them would be dead if they weren't getting them from some other source.
That should read "No, cuz anyone NOT using them would be dead..."
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