Toxin wastes ?

uncle Alan

uncle Alan

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Noticed a Japanese foot pad similar to a large band-aid that is supposed to attract junk from your body.

Anyone try it ? Results ?


An inquiring mind wants to know........

Uncle Alan :confused::)
 
I don't know if that works but your body's normal way to excrete toxins is through the skin, lungs, urine, feces.
BTW for those who think stuff about toxins is nonsense - We live in a chemical soup unfortunately .It's everywhere and now because of it cancer has replaced heart desease as the #1 killer !!
 
I feel that I have a decent background in biology, and I say it's complete crap, just like almost anything sold on infomercials.
 
I don't know about those pads, I agree with the comment about infomercials..probably junk!!
Although, with all the refined foods/artificial ingredients/chemicals in your foods - environment etc..there are toxins that DO stackup in Your system. A great place to start if Your serious are these two places:

http://www.blessedherbs.com/bh/colon_overview I did this, and can atest to it's benefits, very very positive :thumbup:
And Bragg's is the bible for clean living/internal health etc..
http://www.bragg.com/ organic apple cider vinegar :thumbup:

Your health starts & ends in Your gut's :)
If You have any questions, maybe I can help? feel free to shoot me an e-mail..
 
What if one were to put the patch somewhere else? Would it still look lke crap?
 
solidsoldier said:
What if one were to put the patch somewhere else? Would it still look lke crap?
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Who knows, but that would go against the marketing. They play on the general notion that feet are "icky" anyways and that "dirt" falls to the bottom like silt in muddy water.
 
I recall seeing a show that debunked this claim. It is a hoax, save your money or buy knives instead.
 
Seems to me logically that the feet excrete more sweat and harbor growth for more bacteria than some other parts of the body, so I'd say yes pads would absorb crap from your body and living on it. Is it actually pulling more crap out than naturally released? Highly doubtful.
 
Infomercials and miracle cures rely on the infallible maxim that not only is there a sucker born every minute, but probably every half second. What sounds plausible is not always what is reasonable. I would be very surprised indeed, and would be willing to eat a boiled unsalted shoe if such a foot pad were able to remove more toxins in clinical trials than tepid lukewarm bath water.

If you want to remove toxins, and there most certainly are lots of toxins in your body, especially if you live anywhere close to civilization, you need to eat well and secrete or excrete them. There are lots of foods (non miracle ones, that you can, surprise surprise, find at the grocery store for 99 cents a pound) that soak up junk.

Then, sweat a little. Go for a walk, take a sauna or do yoga. Now you owe me 3 payments of $59.99 for my amazing advice.

I'm sorry if I come off as sarcastic. I'm not actually trying to be mean to you, I am far more perturbed at the makers and marketers of "miracle cures" that do their best to dupe the credulous. If one wants to lose weight, one should exercise and eat better. If one wants to clean one's body, one should bathe, exercise and eat better. If one wants to become smarter and improve one's memory, one should crack a book.
 
We've had great fun with this and similar products on the James Randi forum; it's a pity folks spend billions each year on such nonsense.

Your body does a marvelous and efficient job of removing "toxins" from your body all on it's own. Note that the people who sell this junk never actually describe what the "toxins" are.....It's left for the buyer to imagine all the dreadful things that must be in there....
 
uncle Alan said:
Noticed a Japanese foot pad similar to a large band-aid that is supposed to attract junk from your body.

Anyone try it ? Results ?


An inquiring mind wants to know........

Uncle Alan :confused::)
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Tried google?

The foot pads are 100% mule fritters: http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4083

Slaytanic said:
Although, with all the refined foods/artificial ingredients/chemicals in your foods - environment etc..there are toxins that DO stackup in Your system. A great place to start if Your serious are these two places:

http://www.blessedherbs.com/bh/colon_overview I did this, and can atest to it's benefits, very very positive :thumbup:
And Bragg's is the bible for clean living/internal health etc..
http://www.bragg.com/ organic apple cider vinegar :thumbup:

Your health starts & ends in Your gut's :)
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Congradulations, your health started in your wallet, went through your intestines, and into your commode. You've been duped. Refer to the above link for debunking on the blessed herbs products as well.

solidsoldier said:
What if one were to put the patch somewhere else? Would it still look lke crap?
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Yes, the key ingredient is powdered wood vinegar, which naturally turns a horrible brown/black color when exposed to moisture. Put it on your butt cheek, scalp - anywhere that sweats, and you'll get the same results.
 
Centaur said:
The foot pads are 100% mule fritters: http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4083
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Congradulations, your health started in your wallet, went through your intestines, and into your commode. You've been duped. Refer to the above link for debunking on the blessed herbs products as well.
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Yes, the key ingredient is powdered wood vinegar, which naturally turns a horrible brown/black color when exposed to moisture. Put it on your butt cheek, scalp - anywhere that sweats, and you'll get the same results.
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Those scams play an important social function, to steal money from people that don't deserve to have it in the first place, and concentrate in the hands of crooked fly-by-night companies that don't deserve it either.
 
Bob W said:
Those scams play an important social function, to steal money from people that don't deserve to have it in the first place, and concentrate in the hands of crooked fly-by-night companies that don't deserve it either.
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What is ridiculous about the "blessed herb" stuff is that the man who perpetuated the scam originated the concept of intestinal mucoid plaque. This is a supposed health hazard, and is formed by toxins in out diet.

This substance, which his treatments eliminate, has never once been medically documented in untold millions of endoscopies.

His snake oil pills contain bentonite, which absorbs water, and expands to coat the inside of the intestines. It combines with mucous in the intestine, and comes out as a nasty looking rubbery quasi-intestine shaped substance. This is the muciod plaque he cites as being health hazard.

Repeat: the treatments create the substance that they are supposed to elimninate!

the web site contains photo testimonials. People are paying him to clog up their intestines with clay, which they crap out, and photograph! :barf:

Edit to add: Sorry about the thread hijack! These scams really sets me off. Ear candles for everybody!
 
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Congradulations, your health started in your wallet, went through your intestines, and into your commode. You've been duped. Refer to the above link for debunking on the blessed herbs products as well.
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We'll unless You've actually tried it, I may value Your opinion :) I maybe would have agree'd with the above, if during the cycle the waste remained the same consistency, I would have attributed it to just the ingredients causing the effect/rubbery look. But when I saw DRASTIC change to the waste during mid cycle/cleanse, something was obviously happening. In other words, while on the cleanse/fast I was only taking the ingredients: herb packet mixed with organic apple juice 5 times a day/lot's of distilled water. During that cycle with nothing else added, the cleanse was the exact same from start to finish, It went from a rubbery consistency with colors of dark browns, with some black stripes and sick smell to a light color with a fluffy consistency and no smell, during the cycle! Also, have never been more regular :thumbup: But, it is good to be skeptical, and do some research before deciding on a health path, all I know is what I saw and how I felt,
and seeing the change that occured made me a believer!! Sorry if I was too graphic..
 
What really made me skeptical is that the sole of your foot is some of the thickest skin on the human body, it seems logical that it would be harder for the toxins to be released through thicker skin. I think the pad turns black because people's feet are dirty, especially the hippies who actually believe that these pads would work.
 
uncle Alan said:
Noticed a Japanese foot pad similar to a large band-aid that is supposed to attract junk from your body.

Anyone try it ? Results ?


An inquiring mind wants to know........

Uncle Alan :confused::)
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Completely useless. The body releases toxins through the kidneys into the urine, and through the gut into the feces. The component that could even theoretically pass into the sweat is next to nil. The body simply doesn't work that way, and I'll stake an MS in Biomedical Sciences and 2 years of medical school on that fact.

Couple the fact that sweat doesn't do much to eliminate toxins along with the fact that there isn't anything in these pads that has any "attracting" effect, and they're nothing more than a way to remove money from wallet.

Making it worse, the people who sell the pads are quite lavishly reviewed on www.infomercialscams.com. They seem to have a history of continuously "renewing" the order once a month, draining more and more money out of the old bank account.

Scam through and through.

cmdionne said:
What really made me skeptical is that the sole of your foot is some of the thickest skin on the human body, it seems logical that it would be harder for the toxins to be released through thicker skin. I think the pad turns black because people's feet are dirty, especially the hippies who actually believe that these pads would work.
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You're quite correct. The soles of the feet boast the second-thickest skin on the body- thickest is the upper back. Considering the large keratinized layer present on even the softest skin, there's no way anything can diffuse across. To quantify it a bit, if you say that the absorption coefficient of the back of the arm is 1 (like for a nicotine patch), the soles are 0.14. Scarcely an eighth as efficient, and that's best-case. For comparison, the scalp is 3.5, the forehead 6, the scrotum 40.

Nothing goes across the soles easily, and surely not with just a cotton cloth soaked in vinegar!
 
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