Detox - A Path to Improved Health and Wellness - continued
How does a Detox Footbath work?
A Detox Footbath involves filling a footbath tub with clean water and adding sea salt which is high in mineral content. An array connected to an ionic detox cleanse unit is placed in the water. This results in positive and negatively charged ions being circulated through the body of the Detox Footbath Therapy subject. These ions circulate primarily via the lymphatic and circulatory systems, which bathe cells throughout the body, acting like magnets to attract the oppositely charged ions of toxins, heavy metals and cellular waste. This process is painless and takes approximately 30 minutes. While some of the toxins are excreted through the approximately 2000 pores in the feet during the Detox Therapy Session, most importantly the Detox Therapy Session will result in a boost in the efficiency of the body's natural excretory and toxin elimination functions for 24 to 48 hours after the session. The liver and kidney are marvelous natural filtration systems and work with the body's natural excretory functions during the period following the Detox Therapy Session to help the body eliminate collected toxins and heavy metals. You are likely to notice changes in the color of the urine and bowels of the individual treated following the Detox Session evidencing the resulting increased efficiency of the body's natural filtration and elimination functions.
Detox Footbath Session
If you have never experienced a Detox Footbath, you will be amazed by the change in the color of the water during the Detox Therapy Session. What started out as clean water will change color and you will observe the water becoming very discolored indeed. This is in part due to ionization and the resulting oxidation of the minerals in the water. However this is only part of the story. You will also notice mucus, foam and flecks in the water and it may turn very dark indeed during your first several sessions. After a number of sessions or during a period of particular illness you may notice the color of the water changing indicating a change in the detoxifying of different parts of the body or varying states of toxicity in your body.
What is most important to understand about how a Detox Footbath Therapy Session works is that an adult human body is between 50 and 65 percent water. The ionization and discoloration process you see going on in the footbath is similar to the process on the water content within your body. The positively and negatively charged ions introduced in the footbath are passing throughout your body and having a similar collection and cleansing effect through the body's natural filtration and elimination functions during the period following the Detox Therapy Session. The 24 to 48 hour boost in efficiency of these functions resulting from the Detox Therapy Session provides most of the therapeutic benefit as well as toxin, heavy metal and cellular waste elimination. For this reason, Detox Therapy Sessions are not suggested more frequently than once every two or three days to allow for the post-Therapy Session detoxification process to work through to completion and not overload the body's natural filtration and elimination processes.
Detox Footbaths have been shown beneficial in the following ways:
- Enhancing and rejuvenating the immune system
- Assisting in shortening the recovery time from injuries, surgery and illness
- Relieving pain and joint stiffness due to arthritis
- Removing heavy metals from the body
- Improving sleep patterns
- Removal of blood clot materials
- Improving kidney and liver function which are a part of the body's natural toxin elimination system
Detox Footbaths should not be used by people with pace makers, those with organ transplants, or by expectant or nursing mothers.
An important part of Detox Footbath Therapy is to make certain that you are properly hydrated. Drink plenty of good water and the use of drinks enriched with colloidal minerals and electrolytes is encouraged during and after sessions.
Detox Therapy is en essential component of a path to improved health and wellness.