What is a Ionic Foot Detox?
The ionic foot detox is a technique for alkalinizing the blood and thereby stimulating the body’s detoxification and healing process through the process of ionization. The feet are placed in a basin of water in which salt and metal ionizing elements have been added. The water is then ionized by the metal elements and this in turn ionizes the feet which ionize the blood.
A normal treatment usually lasts
between 30-45 minutes, as this
is about the time it takes for all
the blood to circulate around the
body through the feet.
Alkaline balance was identified by
nobel prize winner Otto Warburg
as follows “to become malignant,
cancer must have a low oxygen,
strong acid environment: over 150
degenerative diseases are linked to
acidity in the body. No disease
cause organism can reproduce in
a highly alkaline environment”
Benefits of an Ionic Foot Detox Include:
- Enhancing your body’s ability to detoxify and heal
- Reducing pain associated with lymphatic system and muscles
- Improving oxygen levels in the body
- Stimulating the lymphatic system
- Reducing pms, tension and menstral pain.
- Reducing cravings for drugs, sugar and nicotine
- Improving liver and kidney functions.
- Shortening recovery time after surgery
- Lowering blood pressure and cholesterol
Water Color Change
The most visually striking part of this process
is the changing color of the water. As the
minutes pass, the water usually changes
colors from clear to green, orange, brown,
or black.
Why does the water change color?
The metal electrodes corrode faster when carrying electricity. Metal ions that will be released into the foot bath tend to form colorful complexes with water molecules. Salts and contaminants that may be present in the water or were on the surface of your skin, will change the solubility of these complexes and the way they interact with light. The colored flecks you see in the water can't tell anything about toxins that may have been eliminated and the claim that you can sweat out a huge amount of toxins with ionic cleanse foot baths is dubious at best. These machines assist the natural detoxification process, however they do not pull toxins from your feet into the water.
What is Ionization?
A water molecule is composed of two hydrogen
atoms and one oxygen atom. When the molecule
loses a hydrogen atom, the remaining oxygen
molecule takes on a negative charge. As you
walk along the beach, your body absorbs
millions of these negatively charged ions, which
alkalize the blood and tissue. Sickness and
chronic and degenerative diseases have been
associated by the nobel prize winner Otto Warburg
with acidity in the body. Alkalizing the body
decreases the acidity of the body.
Preventing disease and maintaining vitality, as we age, requires the maintenance of an alkaline environment throughout the body which is virtually impossible to accomplish in our high tech, high stress toxic society, unless we can walk on the beach everyday where the ever moving waves of the ocean cause ionization of trillions of water molecules as they crash to earth.
Who can use an ionic footbath?
Practically everyone can benefit from this technology. Everyone can use more energy and feel better about themselves and everyone can detoxify more efficiently since nobody is perfectly free from toxins. The ionic foot detoxification is a perfect compliment to other therapies as well. If you are injured, depressed, or in pain, feel tired all the time, lightheaded or dizzy, you can benefit from this therapy.
Who should not use ion detox foot baths?
- Those who suffer from epilepsy or other forms of cortical hyperexcitability.
- Patients who have received an organ transplant. You can use this technology at your own risk.
- Anyone who has a pacemaker or battery operated implants.
- Hemophiliacs should not use ion foot baths due to the potential risk of capillary hemorrhage.
- If you believe you are pregnant.
- Those who are under continuous medical supervision or need to take life saving drugs on a continual basis. Besides these restrictions, even children as young as 5 years of age, can take ion detox foot baths regularly.
Rates
45 minute session $50
45 minute session with Vitaflex oil foot reflex healing touch/ $75
