Foot Ion
Foot Ion
Do "ion detoxification machines" (the foot spa kind) really work?
Honestly, this is the first time I encountered this word, ion detoxification machine. Does it work? I checked on internet what is the machine and it operates by an electric current in some bath in which you put your feet. Supposedly, ions (which are electrically charged natural particles such as Na+, Cl-, etc), will bind to toxins in your feet and then draw them out, somehow.
I am answering this question by plain logical thought and gut feeling. And my answer is a full-hearted NO! Why?
First of all, health is a hype, and people sell the most beautiful bogus ever invented to make some money out of the hype.
Second, people are not sewage pipes, and do not leak out of their feet.
Having said that, 'toxins' is a very wide group of molecules. Toxins come in many different sizes, shapes, toxic meachanisms, and solubility/electric charge (if any).
Ions will not bind to all toxins. Futhermore, toxins may find storage in the human body in fat tissue (such as certain pesticides), or accumulate in the liver or in other parts. Certainly, not all these toxins will pass the skin and come out through your feet. Whereas their exist some toxins that are able to pass the skin, most do not just so.
I would say this is an interesting marketing stunt, and no more than that.
Might as well believe that people can shit from their mouths and eat from their assholes, like in Southpark.
Funny though, yes.
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