A Detox Foot Bath Can Help Your System Cope

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Detoxing has become a normal part of day to day life for many people. These days people are able to detox by soaking their feet in water using a special device called a foot spa. It is becoming increasingly common knowledge that a foot bath under specific conditions serves to clear your body of life threatening poisons.

The reason detoxification is important is because our environment is so poisoned with chemicals, heavy metals, pesticides and drugs. In our lifetimes we routinely experience miracles of technology. We have been able to take previously useless raw materials from the earth and turn them into all kinds of gadgets, gizmos, machines, cars, jet planes, and an almost infinite number of other wonderful things.

But there is a price to be paid for these miracles. The price is a relatively new type of pollution that is pervasive enough that it is impossible for us to escape. In fact our world is more polluted now than ever before. It is polluted with petrochemicals, plastics, pesticides, heavy metals, and a multitude of things we may not even know how to describe. This pollution is in our water, our food, and our air. And because we drink the water, eat the food, and breathe the air, these pollutants are in our bodies as well.

It is silly to suggest these pollutants are not potentially harmful to humans. In fact many of these pollutants - like the drugs given to domesticated animals for example - are specifically intended to have an effect on those animals. It is not unrealistic to think that the small amounts of those drugs remaining in the meat we eat will be potentially harmful to us.

The truth is we are constantly inhaling and assimilating residues from petrochemicals, plastics, and pesticides, fertilizers and growth enhancing drugs. What is becoming increasingly clear is that our bodies have a hard time dealing with these poisonous residues because they have an impact on the very systems that are supposed to regulate and eliminate them.

The increase in such things as birth defects, breast cancer, cancer mortality, heart disease, allergies and immune system problems has been staggering over the last 30 years.

Even if we acknowledge that there has been a change in the way these things are reported, the numbers are still pretty depressing. Just about everyone agrees that the number of environment-related diseases, medical conditions, and direct challenges to our immune systems has dramatically increased over the last two or three decades. This increase has corresponded directly with the extent to which our world has become increasingly saturated with new drugs, new chemicals, new pesticides, new plastics, and new electronic gadgets putting dangerous chemicals and heavy metals to ever more sophisticated uses.

In the face of this dramatic increase in and other toxins our bodies have more and more trouble dealing with them. In fact humans have survived for hundreds of thousands of years because we have developed finely tuned systems for defending against toxins in our bodies. An important aspect of those systems is the ability to filter out those toxins and get rid of them in short order.

This process involves our whole digestive and circulatory systems, but in particular organs such as our liver and kidneys. The blood pumps through our bodies, pulls toxins from our cells wherever possible, and then is filtered through the liver and kidneys. But as this delicate system is taxed with more and more impurities our natural cleansing mechanisms get overloaded. Many people simply cannot cope. As a result they develop allergies, decreased immunity, sickness and disease as their bodies attempt to deal with the day to day harshness of our environment.

This is the rationale behind various detoxification techniques. The conclusion that advocates of detoxification have come to is that the natural toxin cleansing systems of the body can be helped along to increase ability to draw out and get rid of toxins from various parts of the body. Sweating, for example, is recognized as one of the body's natural systems for detoxifying itself. A steam both or spa is one method for stimulating this activity.

Another ancient remedy for toxin build-up is the foot bath. Experts in foot bath therapy consider the feet to be the most direct pathway to the innermost parts of the body and have been used for centuries to eliminate toxins. Traditionally, feet were placed in salty sand to detoxify. More modern techniques use what is called an ionic bath.

The foot bath or foot spa uses a direct micro-current that is very similar to low voltage electro-stimulation or cold laser - both of which have been proven to increase cellular ATP (stored energy). This increase in energy stimulates the cells to purge toxins at a much higher rate. The warm salt water is used as a conduit for exchanging ions. In other words, the foot bath is like a magnet that stimulates the cells and then draws out toxic material that is then deposited in the bottom of the foot bath device.

Like most "holistic" approaches to healing, the use of detoxification techniques like the foot spa do not depend on chemicals, drugs, surgery, or other invasive types of therapy. They attempt to work with the natural processes of the body and restore its equilibrium. Normally this equilibrium has been upset by factors such as environmental degradation or stress. Or in the case of a build up of toxins, environmental pollution has resulted in an accumulated level of toxins that the body simply cannot efficiently handle without some help.

The medical information in this article is provided as an information resource only, and is not to be used or relied on for any diagnostic or treatment purposes. This information should not be used as a substitute for professional diagnosis and treatment. Please consult your health care provider before making any health care decisions or for guidance about a specific medical condition.

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