Assuming you’ve all read the previous article on How to Detox Your Body, you would know a great deal on detox diets than you had known before arriving to this site. You also know that there are more ways than one to detoxify your body, which introduces today's topic on detox pads and patches, also known as detox foot pads and patches, giving a new option for detoxification plans in which one applies patches on their feet before going to sleep , immediately undergoing detox treatment up until the morning when they are to be removed. For my organic and natural-only users, the detox foot pads are as natural as you can get when it comes to detox diets, and may even be a less frustrating and easier way to remove toxins from your body than adhering to strict cleansing diets that just adds more stress in your life.
What is a Detox Foot Pad?
The active ingredients of a detox foot patch includes tourmaline and bamboo vinegar. Tourmaline is widely known as the only mineral that stores permanent electricity in the form of negative ions. Science has shown that negative ions, which are mainly found near large sources of water, are what relaxes the body through increased oxygen levels. They also have been mentioned to improve immune system health and improve blood circulation. Bamboo vinegar is widely used in Asia to treat skin infections by helping the skin remove waste and toxins that attribute to these infections and irritations, helping heal the skin and may improve complexion as well. What this all means through use of a detox foot pad is that the tourmaline increases blood circulation of all organs through the feet, allowing more waste to travel through the blood, while bamboo vinegar helps to draw those toxins out through the collection of nerves in the skin of the feet and onto the foot patches.
How Does A Detox Foot Pad Work?
It is often recommend to wear socks along with the foot pads, as since the skin detoxifies the body through perspiration, wearing socks increases the amount of sweat and blood circulation for a higher chance for the removal of toxins. The reason the feet are targeted by detox pads stems from the science of reflexology which states that most organs have a connection of nerves that accumulate at the foot, and by targeting the feet through massages, pressure points, and other various techniques aimed at the feet, results will affect the entire body. You can also wear detox foot pads during the day, which is seen to have better results since blood circulation is pointing downward to your feet as you are moving around. You could simulate this effect with the help of gravity by elevating your bed at the head post or simply sleeping with your feet off the bed to allow gravity to pull the blood and waste towards your feet.
Skeptics Of The Detox Foot Pad
Critics of the foot detox pads claim that the discoloration found in the pads after removal simply attributes to moisture coming in contact with the dried ingredients resulting in a chemical reaction. While this may be true, these same critics also believe that the skin, the largest organ of the body, naturally detoxifies through perspiration, leading to the invention of sauna rooms and prefer these methods over the detox foot patches. Since it is proven that toxins and wastes are able to be removed from sweat through the skin( the exact process that goes on during use of foot pads), why would it not be possible for a pad to remove toxins of the body through the feet? The only difference would be that the ingredients of a detox pad merely enhances the toxin removal process as discussed in the previous paragraphs.
Besides this fact, detox foot pads are very inexpensive, a week’s pack costing merely the same amount as a couple days worth of fast food. The ingredients are all natural, so there are no side effects besides an allergic reaction if you have one. The only thing you have to lose is a couple day’s worth of fast food, which would actually do you some good. Everything else to gain includes more energy, better sleep, better skin complexion, improved immune system health, decreased stress, decrease in pain, and a couple dollars saved from missing out on junk food to buy cheap healthy food to improve your health even more. With a good health (exercise) plan added on to using detox foot pads, your life will be on the right path to a long life of fitness and health.
Welcome to the site. I plan to make this site as large as possible, containing a massive amount of information relating to the world of detoxification. To start off today's post let's learn what detoxification is all about.
How To Detoxify Your Body
What’s with the craze surrounding detoxing your body? As the world enters an era where maintaining one’s health is a major priority, the detoxification process, or detox for short, seems to rank high with the many methods and diets used in achieving this goal. Seeing that you have arrived at this site, I take it you too have decided to be serious about your health, but don’t know whether detoxing your body is a good choice to take. Here at the How To Detoxify Your Body site, we aim to provide your with as much information to help you make the right choice and work towards and maintain a healthy body.
So, what is the detox process? Detoxification basically concerns the ability to remove harmful substances from your body. By simply living in a certain environment, your body will come in contact with many toxins that attribute to the damage in your body. Substances such as free radicals even lead to physical changes in your body, such as wrinkles and aging of skin and organs. While the experts recommend eating healthy foods, chances are that you weren’t born eating healthy, so some damage has already been done. Besides, a healthy diet isn’t always the cure to all your problems. For example, to build muscles you need a healthy diet with protein, but that isn’t enough. You also need to workout! If you’re wondering why I used that example, muscle deteriorates as you age, and common sense tells us we need muscles to move around, so some of your mobility goes away with it. By now I hope you’ve learned that you need to combine a healthy diet with some kind of plan to ensure your body gets all the proper treatment it needs. One of these plans could be the detox diet for you, but who knows until you’ve gathered all the information you need?
So far, you’ve learned about toxic substances that harm your body simply due to where you live. Well, you can also cause harm to your body by eating the wrong kinds of food, drinking the wrong drinks (time to tone it down party boy!), and coming in contact with the wrong chemicals (pollution anyone?). I’m sure we all know about what bad foods could do to your body, but how many of us know what makes a bad food….well, bad? Let’s see….preservatives, color additives, flavor additives, trans fats, partially hydrogenated oils, acids, insect/animal contamination, other kinds of contamination (hair, material, dirt, etc.), bacteria, viruses, radiation,…a little blue in the face? I think you got the point. Please don’t be afraid to eat food anymore, granted there are some little bad guys hitching a ride on your sour cream covered tortilla chip, your state of health isn‘t in as much danger as it seems.
On to the process of detoxing your body, the main point of this paper. Is it a good idea? If you haven’t experienced it already, sooner or later you’ll find the critics of detoxing methods. The experts tell us that our body has it’s own natural detoxification center, including the lungs, heart, kidneys and skin. Though this may be true, ask yourself is it enough? Consider the change your environment has undergone due the technological advances your area has made, and the pollution is has brought - all those chemicals in the air, the animals and plants (YOUR FOOD!!!), and water sources that eventually end up inside you. You could wait until your body adapts to handle these problems in the next decade or so, or try detoxifying yourself NOW and lending your body a hand.
Criticism includes dehydration, muscle breakdown, nutrient deficiencies, weight GAIN, loss of intestinal bacteria (the good kind), and the simple idea that such toxins don’t exist. I can only say that common sense tells you to drink water when thirsty (besides, what‘s a detox program without one of the best detoxifiers?), eat a healthy diet with protein and amino acids for muscle and achieving your nutrition goals, and sticking to a health fitness plan to avoid gaining all the weight you will lose once you try a detox diet. Remember, a health plan is something you stick to, FOREVER, or else…you’ll end up like the people who didn’t stick to their health goals, who have to remain nameless. And you know that’s a bad thing. With the intestinal bacteria loss, no worries they will come back. Besides, aren’t there pills and yogurts that provide those guys for you? So try to detoxify your body today, I ensure you with a good amount of knowledge, a healthy dose of common sense and a good plan, there’s nothing to lose….well except the toxins attacking your insides, a few pounds, your low self-esteem, some loose clothes, a few bills for new and more fitting clothes, days being late to work, feelings of laziness, sicknesses, addictions, cravings, and the time you’ve spent on that chair all day long. But besides that, there’s nothing to lose.
