Move over super juices! Detoxifying foot baths are now available to cure all your ailments!
A number of spas and health clubs located throughout the state are now offering special foot baths that supposedly help alleviate a wide variety of health problems.
Participants soak their feet for 30 minutes and an employee adds an “ionizer” to begin the process. The water starts out clear but over the 30 minutes, it begins to turn murky and quite frankly…disgusting, as toxins are “pulled from the body.”
KSL conducted an investigation and took a hidden camera inside one health spa that offered the controversial detoxification method to find out what all the buzz was about. Employees claimed that the foot baths helped people with fibromyalgia, arthritis, chronic fatigue, and even cancer. Say what?
Two doctors interviewed by KSL both said this method of detoxification is impossible and individuals using it are most likely experiencing a placebo effect. Despite that, some users swear it has helped them for the better.
What do you think…are detoxifying foot baths legit or a load of crap? Or has anyone actually tried one??
photo courtesy: KSL
10 responses so far ↓
1 MJFan // Feb 27, 2008 at 8:37 am
That is gross! No, I don’t think I believe that it works, especially the way they claim it works. Ewww. That water is just so nasty.
2 Trevor // Feb 27, 2008 at 8:38 am
I think that anytime you can soak your feet for a while will make you feel better. I’m with the guys who said it’s a placebo effect.
3 T Payne // Feb 27, 2008 at 8:59 am
No way in hell did all that brown ish come from “toxins” leeched out from that dude’s feet.
Ten bucks says they throw a couple of beef bullion cubes in there while the patron isn’t looking.
4 futuRich // Feb 27, 2008 at 10:03 am
yummmm…. man i gotta friend who might benefit from that “treatment”, cuz man do his feet stiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiink ;o
5 kate // Feb 27, 2008 at 10:26 am
I don’t know if you can knock it unless you’ve tried it yourself. Alternative medicine can be an effective tool for those with serious health problems.
6 Ry // Feb 27, 2008 at 10:27 am
nah, it’s all bullshit!
7 HealthMatters // Feb 27, 2008 at 11:49 am
OK - I didn’t read the article (because I didn’t NEED to!) . Detoxifying foot baths WORK WORK WORK. They are really amazing and probably the only REASON I am alive today maybe! We all take in so many carcinogens every day, like CIGARETTE SMOKE, PET URINE, and AIR SPORES! Even in utah the air can be BAD! Foot baths clean these out by SUCKING them out through your feet. How can they not work?? Reallly????
8 cameron // Feb 27, 2008 at 12:30 pm
bull shit? i heard that’s a powerful homeopathic remedy.
9 kates // Feb 28, 2008 at 3:56 pm
ugh…it sounds like another “health” scam preying on people who are really suffering.
10 britt // Feb 29, 2008 at 9:42 am
What difference does it make if it helps people feel better?
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