ok science majors...please help me prove its all a lie

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my roommate is a massage therapist.....she is big into alternative healing methods....she has this "machine" called "ionic detoxification"...

so basically here is the dilly yo... you fill a container with warm water and salt....you place this electrode sorta thing into the water....you place your feet in the water....you put a wrist band on that has a wire connecting to the machine....30 min later the water goes from clear to a murky brownish red..

the internet and her swear up and down that its all the nasty shit from your body "aka toxins" that get drawn threw the skin....BUT....i think its simply just rust! it smells like rust....it looks like rust and it floats like rust (looks a pool of water that has collected at a scrap yard)...

i think its all placebo "sp".....i tried it out but i feel no different while she said she feels like she has more energy and gets light headed after "treatment"...


my theory is that the salt you add to the water may react with metals in the water or in your skin such as iron...dont really know if the skin contains iron or not but thats what i guess.....i dont believe this machine can pull toxins from the body threw your feet.

am i wrong for believing this is complete bullshit?
 
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it just reminds me of science class when you electrically charge a nail while submerged in salt water.....it makes rust happen within minuets.....
 
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If you believe it helps you then of course it will, just like you said, but as for being able to prove it's bs.........I don't have a clue. I'm no Mr. Wizzard.
 
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the electrode.. what is it made out of? ;)

If it is iron.. well guess where that red/brown stuff is coming from? ;)

IE the body is the cathode anode and the electrode is the anode.
 
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drunk_medic;1133309 said:
Use distilled, double-distilled or deionized water? Maybe take out the salt?
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at that point then i dont think anything will happen.....which helps my point....but supposedly you need to have salt in order for the machine to work....still helps my point....untill i cant figure out for sure why the water changes color then i cant tell her she waisted $200....and that all the people online who swear by it are all suckers.
 
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figgie;1133312 said:
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the electrode.. what is it made out of? ;)

If it is iron.. well guess where that red/brown stuff is coming from? ;)
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no its not iron cause the water doesnt change colors unless you put your feet in it....but remember that you are connected to the machine by your wrist...so i think all your feet do is complete the circuit and the metals in the water react to the salt and electricity....
 
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gaboonviper85;1133315 said:
no its not iron cause the water doesnt change colors unless you put your feet in it....but remember that you are connected to the machine by your wrist...so i think all your feet do is complete the circuit and the metals in the water react to the salt and electricity....
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re-read my edit...

the salt makes it possible as distilled water is not very conductive.

The electrode is probably iron. The person connected to the machine completes the circuit.

the same as in plating...

you have a solution of zinc or what not and the anode is always the same material as the solution. IN this case the Iron can not plate the person so it floats. It is the exact opposite of plating.
 
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Cripes, not another one of these. Search on "ionic detoxification myth" and you'll find this: http://skeptoid.com/episode.php?id=4083&comments=all

There are a number of electrical foot bath products on the market. The idea is that you stick your feet in the bath of salt water, usually with some herbal or homeopathic additive, plug it in and switch it on, and soak your feet. After a while the water turns a sickly brown, and this is claimed to be the toxins that have been drawn out of your body through your feet. One tester found that his water turned brown even when he did not put his feet in. The reason is that electrodes in the water corrode via eletrolysis, putting enough oxidized iron into the water to turn it brown.
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GrimJack;1133388 said:
Cripes, not another one of these. Search on "ionic detoxification myth" and you'll find this: http://skeptoid.com/episode.php?id=4083&comments=all
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that is exactly what I told her!!! Soni showed her this info just to back my point up....she wants me to put it on eBay again lmao.

I can't post pics of her against her knowledge...I'm at work now so I yall may have to wait LOL.
 
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