Detox Foot Patches???
 

Anybody heard of these Detox Foot Patches that have been on TV recently?
(you can read all about it at Kinoki.com)

Anybody had any results using these patches to detox with?

i've seen them, been wondering the same thing! i thought about buying some, but i am a bit skeptical i guess. i've never done any of the detoxing stuff and this sounds about the easiest, put them on your feet, go to bed, wake up and take them off. easty enough, but do they work??

That is the question...do they workie!

Maybe we should recruit a ginny piglet to try them out and let us know if they work.

My sister and I tried them. My sister had very "dirty" detox pads the next morning. I had hardly anything on mine.

My sister is a smoker, so that could be part of it.

I think they work, but they are somewhat expensive.

I wonder if there are any independent studies that have been done on these.
You know, studies that the manufacturer wasn't involved with.

That's what we need to find out.

Meh. I see those things in catalogs and my only reaction is: pure bull#2

Is that like a step below pure bull#1...???

I didn't know they had ratings for bull.
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See, my thing is I want to try them just out of curiosity. I don't even care if they work. I think it's the same morbid fascination I have with Biore Strips...I just want to see all the crap they pull out of my pores. (TMI?)

Wow. The scientific problems with this are just incredible.

First, the skin is, for the most part, an impermeable membrane (otherwise, you'd have bacteria, blood, etc going in and out of your body all the time). The skin is only really permeable in the pores, which excrete oils and sweat, not all over. That's why, if you put lotion on your feet, you don't get it in your bloodstream. So the idea that you can pull body toxins out through your feet from other places in the body is, really, from a scientific perspective, ridiculous.

Second, if you had toxins in your body and they WERE somehow magically drawn to your feet when you stuck the pads on, they'd have to pass through your bloodstream, lymphatic system, or some other system on the way...and if they did that, they'd be filtered out by the detox organs already in your body...namely, the liver and kidneys. So they still wouldn't end up on the detox pad...they'd end up in your urine. And remember, even THIS is only if there was some magic pull from your body to the detox pads, which isn't how the body works.

There are substances that they can put in the pads (like, for example, wood vinegar) that will turn brown and gunky when put in contact with water. Feet sweat. People have experimented with these by adding plain water and guess what? The pads changed color!

The pads work very well for their intended purpose...separating people worried about toxins from their money. Any other purpose? Be very skeptical.

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OK, I've done a little googling and I've read a couple things about how there's a chemical that basically turns brown when exposed to water, or perhaps it has to be salt water. But your sweat just sort of turns it on like I don't know, a color wonder kit or something (the markers that are invisible unless you use them on special paper). One guy said he dipped a foot pad in salt water and it turned brown, just like it would on a sweaty foot. So there you go. It's not a scientific review or anything but it certainly makes sense.

mandalinn, you are a font of information!

Wow, I'm glad I'm not the only one at there with this fascination. lol

I just love getting the great info that Madalinn has, she is amazing!!!!! THANK YOU :)

These have been around for some time, but since they have been advertised on an informercial recently, everyone seems to be talking about these.

I tried them a few years ago when I was desperate to find something to help with irritating and constant lower back pain. I was going to a spine specialist and a chiropractor, but I was still having pain, mainly from inflammation in my muscles, and didn't want to have to depend on pain killers all the time. I tried these to see if they would help with inflammation.

I tried them on the bottom of my feet a couple of times but there was really no change in my health in general and I didn't really believe that worked that well, but then I put some near where I had very tight and sore muscles and inflammation in my lower back. The next morning when I awoke, my soreness and inflammation was gone. So I belive that something in the patches does make you sweat (pulls water from that general area) and in my case maybe that helped with the inflammation? I don't know. But other than that, I don't think there is much to them.

I see this is an old thread, but there is some misinformation here.

This is not true. If the skin was impermeable then nicotine patches would not work, because the skin would not absorb the medicine from the patch. Pain relief patches would not work and neither would birth control patches. The skin IS permeable and that's why all these various patches work.

You can do and experiment. Have someone cut a clove of garlic and rub it on the bottom of your foot. In a few minutes you will taste garlic.

The skin acts as a barrier which does prevent bacteria from freely entering the body. The circulatory system is basically a closed system, that is why we are not seeping blood. We bleed when tiny capillaries in the skin are cut.

I believe 20/20 did a recent story on these patches and found them to be bunk. As another poster stated, when the pads got damp, they changed color.

... as you were :belly:

I was reading about these earlier today here: Foot pads


I'd save my money.

Would there be any benefit to chewing on these pads? :?:

You're joking, right?

There's a lot of great detox info out there. A nice book is The Detox Diet: A How-To & When-To Guide for Cleansing the Body by Elson M. Haas. Your best bet so you don't NEED detox is eat a clean diet. Deepak Chopra says we shouldn't eat anything with a label - nothing from a box, nothing from cans. Fresh fruits & vegetables with a minimum of animal protein are the way to go for as much of the time as possible.

Good luck :cool:

I thought it was like organic chewing tabacco that was actually good for you as opposed to regular chewing tobacco.

The only bad part is you gotta take up baseball, frequently grab your privates, and spit alot.

I wasn't too interested due to the additional habits that would need to be developed if I took up chewing these pads.

:lol3: I like your sense of humor Rocky!!!

Well, I actually heard that there were herbs that you can chew on similar to chewing tobacco.

Since it's supposed to be good for you, I assume you swallow instead of spit
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I said it was -mostly- impermeable. Nicotine patches, and other medication patches, have engineered molecules of whatever material they are trying to get into your bloodstream - engineered so they can pass through. There are exceptions, like garlic. But the materials in these pads aren't exceptions to that "Mostly impenetrable" rule...they fall into the "lotion" category (doesn't pass through), rather than the "medical patch" category (does pass through).

I think the pads must have iron or something in them that rusts (or corrodes, whichever you prefer) when subjected to the sweat (salt water) from the bottom of the feet.

This is completely fake. Dateline did a special about "do they work" and these were on there. The only reason the foot pad turns brown is from your feet sweating while wearing the pad. The sweat goes into the pad and there is a brown substance under the pad that is brought forth when wet and that's the gunk you see every morning...not toxins.

Total crap.


~Utterly Absurd~

I dunno, they cured my hampster of cancer!!!

I'll admit it was a hassle cutting up the pads
into little bitty strips and getting them on
Budroe's tiny feet...but he's alive and well now.

Budroe is sooooooo glad I found
these detox foot patches
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Rockerz.... I don't know if your insane or if your hilarious!

Thanks for the info on these. I've wondered since they hit the main market about them.

~Diana

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Rockrz, I darn near wet myself laughing at your post. Thank you... Thank God it was a pet hamster, not a pet snake. Then what would you have done?!

Well, that's easy....we'd have to get him some feet!
Without feet, you can't experience the miraculous
powers of the foot patch.

Actually, I wish they had a "butt patch" cause
mine keeps leaking stuff....

So, I went to the doctor about it, and he told me
I needed a "Butt Transplant" because mine is cracked!

And, now I'm stuck on the stinky butt donor waiting list
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