Can that foot pad really remove toxins from your body?!


Question: The commercial says you put the pad on your feet and it turns black the next day due to toxins being removed. How is this even possible? Is this just hocus pocus bogus stuff like Head On?

Answers: The commercial says you put the pad on your feet and it turns black the next day due to toxins being removed. How is this even possible? Is this just hocus pocus bogus stuff like Head On?
I don't know about the foot pad but toxins can be released from your body via the skin. If you feel a need to detox a cheap way is a foot bath with a teaspoon of salt added in. Toxic wastes and where they come from can be determined by the colour of the water. Black residues are often indicative of liver detox. Yellow green colours; kidney, urinary tract and prostate/female organs.Orange; joints.Well that's what my mother told me.

Looking up my anatomy textbook. The skin has three main types of glands; Sebaceous(secrete oil like substance(sebum) found in around your hair and face and lots more places), Sudoriferous (sweat) and Ceruminous(secrete cerumen(earwax)). There are two main types of sweat glands Eccrine(aka merocrine) and Apocrine.

Eccrine glands are distrubuted thoughout the skin in most regions of the body espically the forehead, palms and soles. The 600ml (or so) of sweat released by the eccrine sweat glands contains water,ions, urea, uric acid, ammonia, amino acids, glucose and lactic acid.
In short I think these kind of treatments work on speading up the secreation rate by increasing ion and molecule movements through the bilipid layer. The skin has a higher concentration of ions than the water around it so the ions move to be in the low concentration area. Thus dispelling toxins and small molecules at the same time.

If thats too complex. The sole of the foot is made of thick skin.Toxins build up in the skin and the ions(salt) in the surrounding water attract the toxins drawing them out of the body.
If that does not make sense ask me.
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    • yes it is,
    The foot pad is bogus and the FDA has told them to stop their claims

    Head on works for some types of headaches
    It is nonsense. You can't pull out "Toxins" through your feet. The detoxification stuff is all scam.

    Head on is a scam as well. It works for headaches as well as placebo.
    It was on the Today Show and they said they were junk. The ingredients in the pad when wet or sweated on turn black.
    i tried it one night and some nasty stuff came off of my foot, but i heard from two people that uses it that it really do work, they buy it often!
    The ONLY toxin that is removed is the toxic cash from your wallet.
    Another good example of a gullibility tax.
    I am pregnant and was told by my doctor to use the pads once a week. I use Life detox. I purchase them from global healing center and have seen good results from them. The fda will say just about anything to keep u purchasing their prescription meds. I use these along with and intestinal cleanser and there has been no bad effects on the baby.
    Of course not.....


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