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.
Today on the site, we will learn one of the many methods on how to detox your body - today’s topic on the Ionic Foot Detox Bath, another method in detoxification that seems easier than adjusting to a strict diet of foods you wouldn’t even dare be in the same room with. If you haven’t read the previous post on detoxing your body, I suggest you do some skimming right away and get up to date on the whole detoxification subject.
The Ionic Foot Detox Bath
The goal of the ionic foot detox bath is to re-balance the energy system in the body and allow it to return to a state where it will be able to detoxify itself at an
optimum level.
Ionic foot detox is all about an apparatus that produce ions, which are positive or negatively charged molecule. All you need is a water basin filled with tap water and some salt as a conductor to enhance or add electricity and boost the ionization process. Ions are atoms that gain or lose an electron, which determines whether they are positively charged or negatively charged. If an ion loses an electron, it's charge is negative, and it will be positively charged if it gains an electron. As time goes on in a life of technology, your body is bombarded by pollution through chemicals of many varieties, and all this throws off the balance of ions in your body. A body full of more positive ions will feel beat down, in pain, full of stress, and everything no one wants to feel. As you guessed, a body more on negative ions will feel the opposite - relaxed, energized, calm and peaceful. But by balancing the body’s ions, your body will be able to work at it’s best in any task you throw at it, in this case, detoxifying itself.
How The Ionic Foot Bath Works
The way the ionic foot detox bath works is by producing ions with this apparatus which will be absorbed through the feet, your body will be able to re-align it’s energy system by balancing the positive and negative ions to each other. Once balance is restored, your body will have new and repaired cells in organs allowing them to remove toxins at optimum levels. Using the skin organ as an example, can you guess which type of skin is better at removing toxins through sweat (as is the way skin detoxifies your body), skin that has very good and strong cells or one that has badly damaged cells? The former type of skin will be able to detoxify better because it itself is in better condition, and this is what the ionic detox foot bath aims to do with your body.
By now some of you are wondering “why can’t I just buy a pack of iodized salt, or some sea salt and dip my feet into a tub of that?” For one thing, by living in the same environment, there is no doubt the toxins will come back eventually, and that means more money to waste on more packs of salt. Why not just buy an ionic detox bath and only pay your electrical bill to use it! Why not make it better by cutting off 30 minutes of television, and pick up a book while you’re receiving treatment, reduce the cost of your electricity bill, expand your knowledge and improve your health all in the same 30 minutes!
Now as you use the ionic foot bath, you may notice color changes in the water, and these changes supposedly vary due to what part of the body is detoxifying through the feet. But critics and scientists have found that it is simply a chemical reaction from electricity passing through the various minute amount of minerals and chemicals in tap water and the metals of the apparatus. While you shouldn’t be looking for color changes, there will be some gunk - mucus, oil, dirt, etc. that float above the water that will be coming from your feet and not a chemical reaction. Does this thing actually work? There have been many heartwarming testimonies that will approve of the ionic foot detox bath, but the best way is to try yourself. But if that doesn’t help your decision, try to remember a time you spent at the beach, whether walking on the sand or swimming in the water. Doesn’t it feel relaxing, calm and peace-like? Believe it or not, there was a process in which your body was healing and lead to those feeling, at the beach! This very process is being simulated in the ionic foot bath, of course it has been enhanced to perform stronger and better on your body, so I’m sure most of you already know how it works without trying. But don’t go taking long walks on the beach now, you’ll have to be training for a marathon and use up a lot of time before the effects kick in, or hasten up the process and get a ionic foot detox bath right away! They’re cheap and long lasting, nothing to lose except pain, stress, sick days, damaged cells, toxins, diseases, arthritis, bad skin, and even mold and lyme, and there‘s even a story of one machine that battled cancer! After that, all you have to gain is a stronger immune system, better breathing, improve nutrient absorption for better nutrition , better sleep, improved blood circulation, and overall a healthy life!
So it doesn’t take much thought to see how detoxification can improve your life in many areas that you wouldn’t imagine have been affected by just living in a polluted environment. With tools such as the detox foot pads and the ionic foot detox bath, and a good health plan (exercise, exercise, meals, rest, and exercise!) you can improve your body to perform at it’s peak and enjoy a healthy and long lasting life.
