Ionic foot detox electrode scam. How it works.
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Published 2016-01-13
In use you sit with your feet in a tray of water with a disposable liner (for staining reasons), and a special detox electrode is placed in the water next to your feet. A wristband may be connected to your arm or possibly a pad to your neck, with the theory being that a small electrical current flows between there and your feet to help flush out your body toxins. In reality the pads or wristbands are either doing nothing or are acting as simple sensor to detect when you actually have your feet in the water.
You sit there for about 30 minutes while the water your feet are in gradually goes brown and yukky as all the toxins from within your body are pulled out.
But in reality the brown sludge is being generated by the controlled DC electrolysis of the electrodes reacting with the ordinary table salt in the water. The results are then analysed using a colour chart to determine exactly what was purged from your body.
After your expensive pampering you leave to go to the nearest coffee shop, feeling wonderful because your body has been cleansed of impurities. Job done.
All Comments (21)
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Anyone who examines and points out quackery for the public benefit and awareness is a good person. Subscribed!
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unfortunately this has come back and I've seen advertisements during this pandemic. This does not cure viruses people...
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WHAT A SCAM!!!! I was considering buying this too!!!! Thank you sooo much for your video!
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I just saw an ad for this and decided to look for a review. Thank you!
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this is such a clever scam... it's visceral and highly visual. This ould create an extremely powerful placebo effect
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Have you considered that the device might actually have worked and detoxed the ghosts of all the capacitors you have murdered over the years on that bench?
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4 Years ago, and they still sell this junk!
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I am so grateful to you! I almost bought it! I imagine myself sitting in this shit for 30 minutes and thinking that I am detoxing! OMG! You saved me from this horror! THANK YOU SO MUCH!
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Assuming it is stainless steel: The anode (positive) corrodes by attracting chloride ions. This locally dissolves the alloy, making assorted chlorides of iron, chromium and nickel (the majority parts of traditional stainless steel). At the cathode, sodium ions are attracted, forming, well, not sodium metal because that takes 2.7V or so and water will only ever handle 1.2V, so it reacts instantly with water, producing hydrogen gas and hydroxide ions. When the local environments mingle, hydroxide combines with the metal ions, precipitating very insoluble hydroxides. These have a very small particle size (not quite colloidal), and range in color from gray (iron (II) hydroxide) to green (chromium (III) and nickel (II)). Additionally, iron (II) hydroxide is unstable, and partially reacts with water all its own, releasing hydrogen gas and changing to brown iron (III) hydroxide -- rust (or, one of its constituents, anyway). Mostly, where oxygen is available at the surface, it oxidizes spontaneously, leading to a brown film or surface layer. If you use a base instead (sodium carbonate or hydroxide), the oxygen overpotential is depressed (big techwords for saying, it isn't attacked by acid ions anymore), and you get oxygen from the anode and hydrogen from the cathode. The "rust smell" is due to impurities in the steel, mainly relating to sulfur, phosphorus and carbon (which are present in small amounts, < 0.02% for S and P). Apparently, some very complex organics come out of the process, which are of course quite pungent, ranging from 'metallic' to 'garlic' and 'brimstone'. The concentrations of the odor compounds is very small indeed (parts per billion) -- the nose is quite sensitive to them! Finally, assuming the rods are conventional 304 or 316 stainless, these are nominally paramagnetic (very weak, too weak for a magnet to stick), but they do become slightly magnetic (a few times more, enough for a magnet to barely stick) when work-hardened. Likely, the wire starts out somewhat hard (wire is typically sold in a hard-drawn state, so it's good and springy, but not so hard that it can't still be bent into shapes), and the winding would add just a little more to that. Thus, rendering it slightly magnetic again.
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I bet they had fun during the invention of that thing, but what had really rolling them on the floor laughing was when someone came up with the idea of that hilarious color chart.
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A person I know had tried this "detox" which uses the same principle I use for descaling cast iron cookware. It pegged my BS O-Meter You did exactly what I had hoped you would: A clean test with NO FEET in the water. I subscribed and I even let the commercials play all the way though. I hope you make some coin because you deserve it!
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I was considering buying one but I had to do my own research 🤔 before buying it this makes sense 🤔 thank you.
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"May contain bits of brain and faeces" Aaah ha ha ha ha ha!
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This reminds me of my misspent youth, when I'd electrolyze copper wire by hooking it up to 9-volt batteries and just leaving it. You do get some very impressive green scum out of that. Guess my batteries had gallbladder problems.
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Having numerous chronic illnesses we become a bit desperate for treatments. I did this 20 years ago and always wondered. Thanks for saving me money!!!!
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I love it. YouTube is "fact checking" everyone who posts videos, except their advertisers hawking quackery
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The video zone has to get cleared before every video.
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and all across the world, foot detox spa's go out of business from clive's debunking video :D
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I've seen your videos randomly and have never been disappointed. Thank you for doing these.
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Thankyou so much! You just saved me almost 200bucks! Here I would have thought all this was coming out of me. I have lymphoma and was only trying to help myself. Thanyou, now I won't be helping someone else not help myself! Wow, Im just shocked. I mean these things cost all the way up to 1,200 bucks on amazon, and we're all getting cheated like this? How do they get away with this with nobody the wiser???
