Body Detoxification

“Ionic detoxification” : Fact or Fiction?

My boyfriend tried this ionic detoxification “foot bath” procedure at his homeopathic doctor’s office. He says it really works- that it actually rids the body of toxins. He wants to go out and buy one now. I read up on it, and it seems to me it’s a total scam. What do you think?
Supposedly ions (positive or negative charge, I can’t remember) are released into the water by the machine, then enter your body through your skin, circulate, where they attach to toxins, and then the toxins are “pulled back out” through the feet into the water, changing the water color from clear, to brown, red, orange, green or black, depending on where in the body the “toxins” came from.

Sounds flaky to me.
What where the toxins?
Did your boyfriend get measurements before and after?
Was there any sort of statistical hypothesis testing?
Were the toxins reduced to a level low enough to have a significant reduction in the effect of these poisons?

In 99.9% of the homeopathic cases the answers to these questions is going to be no or I don’t know. Without direct evidence you can’t credibly make a claim either way in a circumstance like this. But of course the absence of facts does not stop the person who is trying to sell it to you….

The sad thing is of the some of the snake oil may actually be harmful, that’s why the Food and Drugs Act was originally created.

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