Reply To: Metal Toxicity Detox

[Patte Rosebank]

The whole concept of detoxes and cleansing is a complete FRAUD.

There is no scientific evidence whatsoever of the need for, or effectiveness of, the sort of “detox” or “cleansing” that the quacks are selling.  In fact, those aggressive purges can be extremely dangerous to your health.

If you are tested by a legitimate medical doctor (NOT a naturopath or chiropractor or homeopath), and found to have high levels of certain metals or other elements in your system, there is a proper medical procedure to get them out.  This is nothing like the sort of “detox” that is being sold by naturopaths, chiropractors, homeopaths, and the weird-looking guys on infomercials.

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There are some places that are selling foot bath procedures or “detox pads” that are claimed to “suck the heavy metal toxins out through the soles of your feet”.  These are a complete FRAUD.

The way the foot bath procedure works is, the “therapist” fills a special basin device with water, adds some special “detox herbs”, tells you to put your bare feet into it, and then turns on a mild electric current.  Lo and behold, the water soon turns brown and sludgy.  The “therapist” tells you that the sludge is all the toxins that were sucked out through the soles of your feet.

What really happens is, the “herbs” that the “therapist” puts into the water contain iron salts.  When you apply an electric current to iron salts, they rust, turning the water a sludgy brown.  So the “toxins” you see are actually the rusted iron salts in the “herbs” themselves.

 

Similarly, the “detox pads” that “suck the heavy metal toxins out through your feet”, are essentially just teabags that contain a mixture of foul-smelling powders.  When you stick them to your feet and go to bed, your feet sweat, and the sweat mixes with the powders in the pads, forming foul-smelling brown sludge.  So, once again, the “toxins” are actually in the “detoxifier” itself.

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These frauds were thoroughly tested and completely debunked by several sources, including ABC’s “20/20”, which tested a sample group of people who were chosen after being tested for all known heavy metals, using the approved scientific method.

Thus, the test group for the pads and the foot bath consisted of a mix of people with either no, or abnormally high, levels of heavy metals in their bodies.

After using the pads or the bath, the results for ALL of the subjects were identical.  Although they all ended up with plenty of brown sludge, the sludge was tested and found to contain only the ingredients that were in the pads or the “herbs” themselves.

This is no surprise, because there is absolutely no possible way for toxins to be sucked out through the feet.

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It’s all about misdirection & misrepresentation—two of the tricks used by fraudsters and magicians.  The difference is, fraudsters do it to rob people; magicians do it to entertain people.

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