No Mary Staggs is someone that you can’t refute, since she’s also a new age ”well respected” natural healer! You didn’t even look at it did you? If you refute her then you’re refuting your own industry! LMAO   [End]
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Take a chill pill stridar! Not everyone quotes out of date info like you do, check into things and you’ll find that everything that you think you know is wrong. But you probably get that a lot so you probably are immune to it. OK, now on for a response to the question about the site, here is a link to the interview with Mary Staggs: http://www.detox-online.com/copy-how.asp I found it just now by doing a google search on: mary staggs ionic detoxification, earlier I had come across it while looking for info to explain to my wife that there really were no toxins in the ionic detox ...
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The manufacturers found that they were losing credibility when people figured out the units were bogus, so some of them have tried to re-spin their sales angle away from toxin removal and more towards achieving internal cage-free radical balance. Perhaps you just don’t want to see that the manufacturers admit they are only electrolysis units with no ability to make ”toxins” leak out of peoples feet? Is that why you didn’t answer my question about where the discoloration comes from regardless of the lack of feet in the water? (That means that the foot bath was run when no one was using ...
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Remember those six men in Britain who almost died while being used as guinea pigs for drug testing? You can read all the details here. Not surprisingly, the company that provided the drug was created exclusively for that particular drug, and as such, it was quickly liquidated. Other than a £2,000,000 insurance policy, it has no assets to sue for (and, of course, any affiliated companies are magically immune from prosecution or mostly so because of the insanity surrounding corporate law). An excerpt: With auto-immune diseases, the body attacks itself by mistake. Ironically, th ...
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... So now they want to give you chemo when you are not even sick? ... How did you read that into the article?   [End]
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Your argument is not with me, it is with the manufacturers who have admitted the units are only electrolysis units, and that water analysis shows only ferrous compounds. But I do have a question for you and I’ll try to keep it simple: where did the dirty water color come from if no feet were in the water?   [End]
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Why won’t you try the simple test I requested? I’m not holding my breath about you doing it since it would probably impact your earning potential. As for results of water ananylsis, its been done already, by a manufacturer, who thankfully was honest enough to admit there were only ferrous compounds consistent with electrode corrision, consistent with the electrolysis process they use in their machine. I’ve already posted their results, but you seem to know even more than the manufacturer so take up the issue with them!   [End]
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Let me know when you did the very simple test that I requested that you perform, to see if you get different results than the manufacturer did.   [End]
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I recently saw my wife and several friends get duped about supposed benefits of an Ionic Detoxification Unit. Don’t get suckered into buying or paying for a session in an ionic detoxifcation foot bath! Guess what, the water turns ”toxic” colors whether your feet are in there or not, because it is just the corrosion of the electrodes that causes the water to change color. The manufacturer below says that ”sales pitches” are used to make people think that different colors mean different toxins were ionically removed from the body through the soles of the feet; in reality it is just the re ...
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Here’s some help for anyone trying to figure out if something seems too good to be true: http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/signs.html Perhaps a few of the unfortunates who fell for that scam might have avoided it if they had been aware of these signs, and hopefully others will check out the latest fads that come along to see if any of these signs apply. It could save your life, your wallet, or both!   [End]
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Since this thread is about ionic detoxification units, lets keep our focus on those. They are all electrolysis units and will have various colors of supposed ”toxins” depending upon the composition of the electrodes. Other magical devices could be addressed in a different thread. However, why not do the test I mentioned in your foot bath of choice and see if any ”toxins” magically appear when the test is done with no feet in the water? Or would you rather just dance around the obvious source of the ”toxins”, which is the machine itself? Think about it, ”toxins” in your body drawn ...
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Here is his disclaimer, it sounds more like an entertainment site since they admit up front they can’t actually do anything: http://www.quantumtechniques.com/Pages/gettingstarted.html#   [End]
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Here is a respected spa owners experience with one: http://www.medspapress.com/articles/155/1/Caveat-Emptor%3A-Detoxifying-Foot-B... I don’t sell them and wouldn’t advise anyone to either buy them or pay for sesions in them. You can get the same effect by collecting rain water from rusty auto parts in a junkyard and soaking your feet in it (but thats not saying that you should do that either!). I have never seen anyone claim that soaking your feet in rusty water has any health benefits. No one should take anecdotal evidence by those who are selling them or selling sessions with ...
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I said that no organic materials which would indicate that the device worked were found; clearly finding skin samples alone would not be proof that the device worked so they would not bother to test for that. They found nothing in the water which could not be explained by electrolysis, is that unambiguous enough? Let me know how your test turns out, the one that you ignored in my previous post, the one similar to the post that started this thread! You know, the test where you add the salts for conductivity, turn on the foot bath with no one in it, and see what happens. Please post ...
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Does Living Water sound like any of these? http://www.chem1.com/CQ/gallery.html   [End]
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Too funny, are you saying they should have looked for skin instead of internal body fluids? That would imply that you think that the foot bath would be removing the skin somehow? Of course not, they tested for internal substances normally removed from the liver and kidneys, but found none. I don’t mind that well meaning people are buying them if they understand that it is a placebo, but no one should be paying for sessions in an electrolysis unit. If you have access to one, try setting it up with all the salts etc but minus any human contact, ie, no feet etc, turn it on, and watch th ...
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Yes they are electrolysis units, that’s why the water turns brown. Keep your money and go barefoot in a junkyard, just kidding, don’t try that at home! Did you get headaches after the session? Some do, I would wash that nasty rusty water off if I got one of the sessions.   [End]
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Here’s another link which follows the ”ionic detox” claims: http://www.raygirvan.co.uk/apoth/2004_09_01_arc.html#109408508192743628 Some of the manufacturers are apparently not claiming that the baths are as good as pixie dust for curing everything, and are even saying that the water color doesn’t mean anything. Ananlysis of the water indicated that a high concentration of iron was observed, consistent with the use of ferrous electrodes, but no organic molecules which, if present, would have indicated that the device actually worked. In a nutshell they are electrolysis units, capab ...
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