Detox Foot Pads – What Is Your Opinion?

[...] Could detoxification foot pads actually work? [...]

Junk science and quackery at it’s best. You’ve just wasted $15. Duh. Put running shoes on your feet, and take a walk or run every day. That (exercise) actually works!

Hello,

You are probably better off eating healthier foods and incorporating more exercise into your daily routine.

I am really unsure how an adhesive foot pad (And why the foot, why not the elbow or nose?) would selectively remove deleterious chemical compounds from your entire body through some sort of osmotic process while leaving others intact. Sounds very suspicious to me.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

These have been debunked all over the place. The change in color just comes from foot moisture. Try putting just regular water or a little salt water on an unused pad and it will look exactly the same. You got scammed, dude.

This was debunked on a local news program’s consumer advocate segment, with commentary from a physician. First, the notion that one can remove toxins through the skin in ones foot is wrong. Secondly, the black color that they take on as “evidence” that they’ve removed toxins is nothing more than the reaction between the moisture expelled through ones foot and collected by the pad. They took a pad, and dipped it in distilled water for thirty seconds, and it came out as black as one worn by the reporter for a few hours.

It would seem that the rule is still in effect. If you see it on an infommercial, it’s junk.

[...] detoxification foot pads actually [...]

Anyone with a clear-cut understanding of human physiology would immediately realize this product is hogwash. It saddens me to see honest folk parted from their hard earned money. This product is surpassed in duplicity only by so called “male enhancement” products. Caveat emptor!

So here are all these people saying all these negative things about it, but none of them mentioned if they have actually tried it. I too didn’t believe it, but I tried them. Yes, you can feel a tingling and yes when you wake up it is brown. But the second night, it is less and less until there is hardly any. I don’t think that my foot moisture would follow such a pattern. But say that it did. I have had problems with my skin. I’m allergic to certain things in food but am not quite sure what. Dyes? Preservatives? I break out in eczema, and my forehead gets oily and acne. When I use detox foot pads, the difference when I wake up is amazing. Usually I don’t notice a drastic change until the second night. So the other thing people were saying, why not just eat healthier and exercise more? The thing is, I am a very active, athletic person. I run track and so everyday I run maybe 4 miles average. And then I do sprinting, working out etc. Even when I’m not in track season, I’m running and working out. I eat as healthy as I can, and my boyfriend helps me eat healthy. But you still get those toxins in there from occasional microwaveable foods when you’re on the run. The detox foot pads simply pull out the extra stuff that exercise isn’t able to.

and the other thing. It’s like acupuncture. toxins are drawn to the acupuncture points just as they are drawn to the foot pads. The foot is said to be the pathway to someone’s body. there’s a certain part of your foot where it pulls them out of. It draws them out of your blood stream like tanning pulls melanin to the surface. And yes, male enhancement products do work. It’s not like nothing happens. But that doesn’t mean that they’re good for you.

@Cori,
20/20’s documentary on this very subject says basically that “you’re pimping for the company.” They don’t work. Period. I think people trust them over “you,” as they have an identifiable ‘presence’ and can be found. You’re one more anonymous comment that is unprovable and unverifiable.

You guys are mean. Have you tried it before knocking it?

To Reflections -
its been a couple of months since you tried them. What’s your opinion now?

I have read the reviews at amazon about the BodyRelief foot pads and over half of the 41 reviewers gave it 5 stars. I am going to give it a try myself. A cheap experiment. I cant afford my amalgam removal right now, so this is worth a try…

Some of the reviews say that its the herbs that make it turn brown, but the toxins are in the goo. So I am going to see how much goo is on the pad when I wake up.

I didn’t find that they worked for me.

I BOUGHT MUDOKU FOOT PADS FOR $5. I USUALLY HAVE FOOT AND ANKLE PAIN WHEN GETTING OUT OF BED IN THE MORNINGS. THE FIRST NIGHT I USED THESE PADS I SLEPT BETTER THAN I HAD IN A LONG TIME. THE NEXT MORNING I HAD NO FOOT PAIN AND LITTLE ANKLE PAIN ,,,WORKS FOR ME

Maybe they are like a placebo, if you believe it will work, then it may. If it make people feel better I don’t really see the harm. I bought a box for $5 and figured “why not”. I just tried it for the first time last night…we shall see.

I have had feet problems all my life…i have been to the podiatrist and purchased the personalized archsupports that ran $200/foot…still ended up w/ pain. over the years nothing has worked for me…i purchased the mudoku product and every time i use it i wake up pain free… now maybe it is not for everybody. it may have to do with your particular body type, like the scientific proof that a person metabolic structure determines how one loses or gains weight. all i know is…i don’t use them all the time, but when i feel the need to, i feel much better in the morning. I even tried just putting one on a foot and not the other foot and upon awaking…i had one foot that way pain free and the other foot still hurt!