Anyone use those foot detox pads? I tried one - it was interesting

[LynneSin]

Supposively you wear this pad taped to the bottom of your foot and the natural chemicals on it will drag out the toxins and heavy metals stuck in your body. I've seen the TV ads, but the store where I get my vitamins were selling individual pads for $4 each. So I tried one and yes, the next morning that thing was disgusting. But oddly enough it smelled like BBQ sauce - like my body had decades of abusing BBQ stuck in my cells that were finally dragged out thru my foot (Ie - I rarely eat anything with BBQ sauce on it).

Anyone try detox foot pads? I'm doubtful if they really do something or if perhaps they could be of some use.

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. This is a Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify our precious barbeque fluids.

[MrCoffee]

2. !

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[CreekDog]

36. What is that?

An Obama rally?

Teehee. I kid... :evilgrin:

[Redstone]

21. I'd nominate your post for a DUzy award, if I could.

Redstone

[Fire Walk With Me]

26. It's the thought that counts

;)

[madinmaryland]

3. Ask Bill-O he's used them!

[ChickMagic]

4. There's something I would like to know about them

If I understand it - you use them for a specific period of time
and they will be clear. If you buy a set, are you supposed to
use them in any particular order? You may know what I'm getting
at here. I kinda hope my hypothesis stands up.

[LynneSin]

6. You're suppose to use them until the gunk goes away

and you're suppose to alternate feet. I had used my left foot, if I tried it again I would use my right foot.

[ChickMagic]

8. But is there a circumscribed order?

Like, do you use something labeled pad #1 L and then pad #1 R,
then pad #2 L and pad #2 R? Or can you just pull any random
pad out of the box and put it on your foot?

[Crazy Dave]

13. I've been thinking the same thing n/t

[ChickMagic]

15. So you get my drift, huh?

I'd very much like to know if they've been pre-treated
toward a certain outcome. I suspect I'm not explaining
myself too well when I phrase my question.

[Pale Blue Dot]

19. You'd get the same effect if you put packing tape on your feet.

These pads are pulling off dead skin and dirt. That's it. The more you use them, the less dead skin and dirt you have left on your foot.

[ChickMagic]

23. Okay. That makes sense.

I had never seen the things or the directions.
I saw part of a commercial and wondered if they had
been pretreated in some way.

Your explanation is much better, however, because
it costs the producers even less.

[Radical Activist]

44. Just what I thought when I saw the commercial.

People have junk on the bottom of their feet. What a surprise! It comes from walking.

[LynneSin]

25. Remeber, this was a random single pad I bought at a store

and I only glanced at the instructions and randomly picked the left foot.

[northzax]

22. guess what?

the gunk comes from inside the pads...so they will never go away! it's freaking genius!

[LynneSin]

29. Hey it was a random $4 experiment

What's funny is my left foot felt tingly all night - made me wonder what was happening down there!

[northzax]

30. menthol.

good times. incredibly clever idea though, huh?

[LynneSin]

31. Someone will make money off of it

I mean, I pealed that one off my foot and it was all nasty BBQ-smelling gunky, sticky shit and I was ready to roll out the bucks for more.

Then I realized that I'm a somewhat sensible person and that probably nothing really happened except perhaps a good cleaning of the dead cells off my left foot. Perhaps I should get one more for the right foot - so I can clean off those dead cells too.

[SacredCow]

5. I suspect they're complete and total bunk....

but I'm curious as to what actually happens. If I ever find them locally, I'm going to get some and try to de-formulate them...

[Pale Blue Dot]

7. Those things are total psuedo-scientific crap.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/01/04/ndetox04.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/01/04/ixnewstop.html

http://www.ukskeptics.com/forum/showthread.php?p=31293

Today we're going to head into the bathroom and suck the toxins out of our bodies through our feet and through our bowels, and achieve a wonderful sense of wellness that medical science just hasn't caught onto yet. Today's topic is the myth of detoxifixation, as offered for sale by alternative practitioners and herbalists everywhere.

To better understand this phenomenon, it's necessary to define what they mean by toxins. Are they bacteria? Chemical pollutants? Trans fats? Heavy metals? To avoid being tested, they leave this pretty vague. Actual medical treatments will tell you exactly what they do and how they do it. Alternative detoxification therapies don't do either one. They pretty much leave it up to the imagination of the patient to invent their own toxins. Most people who seek alternative therapy believe themselves to be afflicted by some kind of self-diagnosed poison; be it industrial chemicals, McDonald's cheeseburgers, or fluoridated water. If the marketers leave their claims vague, a broader spectrum of patients will believe that the product will help them. And, of course, the word "toxin" is sufficiently scientific-sounding that it's convincing enough by itself to many people.

Let's assume that you work in a mine or a chemical plant and had some vocational accident, and fear that you might have heavy metal poisoning. What should you do? Any responsible person will go to a medical doctor for a blood test to find out for certain whether they have such poisoning. A person who avoids this step, because they prefer not to hear that the doctor can't find anything, is not a sick person. He is a person who wants to be sick. Moreover, he wants to be sick in such a way that he can take control and self-medicate. He wants an imaginary illness, caused by imaginary toxins.

Now it's fair for you to stop me at this point and call me out on my claim that these toxic conditions are imaginary. I will now tell you why I say that, and then as always, you should judge for yourself.


These thing and other "detoxification" products have NO basis in reality and are a total waste of money.

[Fire Walk With Me]

10. Somehow I CAN imagine looking at one the next morning and finding a cheeseburger in it.

[ChickMagic]

17. Yes, I did mine.

We found bacon.

[texas1928]

9. If you are supposed to alternate feet...

I am screwed. I can't do it.

[madinmaryland]

11. I am in your thread...

[ChickMagic]

18. He looks just like our kitteh

:rofl:

[suninvited]

12. When I lived in Florida I was a massage therapist

and I really do believe that toxins are somehow stored in the feet. When I would give foot massages, I could smell tobacco from smokers and meat from meat eaters. Once I swear I even smelled alcohol from a drinkers feet.

[chknltl]

32. hmmm. so maybe instead of scraping my pipes...

...I should try smoking my toenails!!!! Interesting :hippie:

[EstimatedProphet]

14. I supposive you may be rightened.

The natural chemicals are better than the supernatural ones, anyway, and they are bester at draggenating out the toxins.

[trof]

16. Do your wear a magnetic bracelet?

:hide:

[Myrina]

20. ... considering that dogs sweat thru their feet ...

... and sweat glands are cleaner-outers of body chemicals, etc ... I wouldn't be surprised if they're collecting something, but I question whether its just run of the mill foot-funk or if they can actually 'pull' toxins ...

:shrug: Maybe I'll try some on my dog ... mmmmm, fritos .... :hide:

[TZ]

27. umm no sweat glands are a way to cool down the body

Nothing to do with detoxifiying the body. And no, dogs don't sweat...they pant to cool down.
Liver,kidneys and spleen are the bodies detoxifiers.

[crispini]

28. Well, you certainly do expel more than just water through your sweat glands, though.

Because I go to hot yoga pretty regularly and I can almost always smell what I've been eating recently coming through my pores, especially if it's meat, garlic, etc. It's amazing how much you sweat in hot yoga.

[TZ]

37. Not much though. The skin is a MAJOR barrier to infection

If it was THAT porous people would be contracting potentially deadly viri (like HIV) left and right. And viral particles are very small. Odors yes, but not anything of significant size. This sweating out the toxins is a myth.

[Myrina]

33. ... and your medical credentials would be what, exactly?

:freak:

[Pale Blue Dot]

34. Oh man, are you going to be sorry.

:rofl:

Maybe you should start eating crow now. You know, just to get a head start.

:rofl:

[TZ]

35. Oh lets see now

My credentials are as follows. BS degree in zoology. 9 Years diagnostic experience in animal health diagnostics, I currently work on clinical trials for monoclonal antibodies in one of the WORLD's mosst respected immunological/oncological biotechs.
Oh yeah and then there's my NIH work on malaria vaccines with these scientists:
http://nihrecord.od.nih.gov/newsletters/2005/05_06_2005/story03.htm

Oh and yes, here's an actual scientific journal ARTICLE that has MY data in it:
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1636993
And yes, my name is in there somewhere.
And you have a credential in idiocy.

[Pale Blue Dot]

38. Wow. With all that book-learnin', you have GOT to be part of the conspiracy.

How can you live with yourself?

:rofl:

[TZ]

40. Oh well you know...

:rofl:

[Shakespeare]

24. The only things I've personally experienced that work to flush toxins are yoga and massage.

With focus around the kidneys/adrenal part of the back. There are certain yoga poses that put gentle pressure on that area, and same with massage.

[dolo amber]

39. Omfg

:rofl:

You're out of your bleepin' mind. :D :yourock:

[marzipanni]

41. No, but my son was given a subscription to detox butt pads when he was born

Tidee Didee. :rofl:

[porphyrian]

42. I taped a maxi pad to my foot once, but it wasn't the same. -n/t

[GoddessOfGuinness]

43. I wouldn't rup my chicken with them...

Might get athlete's lip.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

45. I've tried some.

Put em on the bottom of each foot at night. When I got up in the morning and peeled them off, there was this awful brown-green gunk on them. It was sticky enough that I had to use a paper towel and alcohol to scrub the gunk off that was left on my feet.

I have no idea where the gunk came from, if it really was out of my feet or out of the pads. My feet were perfectly clean when they were applied.

[Shine]

46. Do they work on your head??? LOL!!!

:rofl: seriously, I have some rather toxic THOUGHTS that could use some purging at times.


I have never even heard of foot de-tox pads before. Sounds very...........interesting.

More power to you, though. :thumbsup: