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Dr. Conner, a friend told me about a detox that involves putting your feet into water that removes toxins from your body through your feet.  It sounds a little hokey, what do you think?

I think you are right.  I haven’t seen any proof of any sort of detox through the feet.  Now let’s think about this and analyze it here for a second.  The thinking is that if you have toxins, like heavy metal toxins, that they are heavy, and will sink in water.  Well, we are mostly water so the metals should sink to the lowest point of our body, our feet.  So you go to your local witch doctor and he says that you can detox by putting your feet into this special water that he’s probably cast a spell over it that involves bat’s tongue or eye of newt, and all your toxins will be pulled out through your feet.  Look at your feet, do you think metal can go through your skin without you feeling some sort of pain or other sensation?  I think your body has a better way of removing things that it doesn’t want.  I know we live in a toxic world, there’s more chemicals around us than any of us would believe, but through your feet?  I’m waiting for a good scientist to analyze this water after it’s been used to de-money, I mean, detox, someone.

The same goes for the pads that you put of your feet, don’t do it.  My feeling is that there is a substance in these products that reacts with the natural oils on our skin, or sweat, or dirt, or something that changes the color and precipitates out particles somehow.  I find it extremely hard to believe that toxic substances are coming out of our feet, aside from the foot odor.

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