I've featured one of these electrodes before, but noticed that they now have them on eBay in different shapes and colours.
This is part of a beauty or health spa scam where the "patient" puts their feet in a bowl of water and a machine draws all the impurities out of their body through the soles of their feet in the form of a brown sludge.
In reality the machine is little more than a low voltage current limited supply that causes accelerated corrosion of the stainless steel electrodes in the housing. The heating effect of the current flow and the electrolytic action of splitting the water into hydrogen and oxygen results in turbulence that carries the brown metal-rich water out of the electrode.
The treatment can be set between between about 5 to 30 minutes depending on how expensive or dramatic you want the session to be.
The electrodes cost about £5 upwards and last up to 50 sessions. (10p a session!)
Their pseudoscience blurb goes along the lines of:-
"Through ion permeation, it can enhance cell activity, improve metabolism, actively promote the growth of yeast in the body, promote liver detoxification, reduce edema, rheumatism and arthritis."
It also gives you some fake beauty blurb to tell your patients:-
"What you can expect to feel when use it: feel lighter and sense of well being.
People with pain, edema, gout, swollen or deteriorating joints report considerable relief.
Skin rashes and pimples, dark circles around eyes, swollen joints are substantially reduced and in some cases even eliminated."
Now for a positive slant on these scams.
If the placebo effect makes people feel better then I'm OK with that as long as the cost is realistic for a simple therapy treatment and it is not implied as a cure for terrible diseases.
I'm also open to the possibility that the low exposure (microdosing) to fairly toxic metals like chromium and nickel in an active water dispersion could have therapeutic effects by permeating into the feet.
In the meantime. If you want to try the treatment for yourself, just buy an electrode and hook it up to some AA cells and drop it in a footbath filled with hot water and a dash of salt.
Here's a search link for the electrodes:-
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=detox+foot+array&_sacat=0&_sop=15
Here's the original video:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH0QpaDNwS8
And here's a research article that analysed the chemical content of the water:-
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3228292/
If you enjoy these videos you can help support the channel with a dollar for coffee, cookies and random gadgets for disassembly at:-
http://www.bigclive.com/coffee.htm
This also keeps the channel independent of YouTube's advertising algorithms allowing it to be a bit more dangerous and naughty.
This is part of a beauty or health spa scam where the "patient" puts their feet in a bowl of water and a machine draws all the impurities out of their body through the soles of their feet in the form of a brown sludge.
In reality the machine is little more than a low voltage current limited supply that causes accelerated corrosion of the stainless steel electrodes in the housing. The heating effect of the current flow and the electrolytic action of splitting the water into hydrogen and oxygen results in turbulence that carries the brown metal-rich water out of the electrode.
The treatment can be set between between about 5 to 30 minutes depending on how expensive or dramatic you want the session to be.
The electrodes cost about £5 upwards and last up to 50 sessions. (10p a session!)
Their pseudoscience blurb goes along the lines of:-
"Through ion permeation, it can enhance cell activity, improve metabolism, actively promote the growth of yeast in the body, promote liver detoxification, reduce edema, rheumatism and arthritis."
It also gives you some fake beauty blurb to tell your patients:-
"What you can expect to feel when use it: feel lighter and sense of well being.
People with pain, edema, gout, swollen or deteriorating joints report considerable relief.
Skin rashes and pimples, dark circles around eyes, swollen joints are substantially reduced and in some cases even eliminated."
Now for a positive slant on these scams.
If the placebo effect makes people feel better then I'm OK with that as long as the cost is realistic for a simple therapy treatment and it is not implied as a cure for terrible diseases.
I'm also open to the possibility that the low exposure (microdosing) to fairly toxic metals like chromium and nickel in an active water dispersion could have therapeutic effects by permeating into the feet.
In the meantime. If you want to try the treatment for yourself, just buy an electrode and hook it up to some AA cells and drop it in a footbath filled with hot water and a dash of salt.
Here's a search link for the electrodes:-
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=detox+foot+array&_sacat=0&_sop=15
Here's the original video:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH0QpaDNwS8
And here's a research article that analysed the chemical content of the water:-
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3228292/
If you enjoy these videos you can help support the channel with a dollar for coffee, cookies and random gadgets for disassembly at:-
http://www.bigclive.com/coffee.htm
This also keeps the channel independent of YouTube's advertising algorithms allowing it to be a bit more dangerous and naughty.
Another science person who is not a expert in the field who thinks he knows what he is talking about but does not.
Thank you Sir, i thought so; i just heard about that,i knew it was all a LOL lie
i detox my feet every day with regular soap and water, i feel better afterwards,
like thay say,
"there is a sucker born every minute"
Just a pinch of salt I use one of those machines. I used 1 relaxed at 1st and then later that night a bunch of energy
Salsman; ” what if I could show you how to turn corroding metal into a profit? “
Salon owner; “ OK go on I’m listening.”
lololoolollllll Yeah super salt
So interesting
The test may be somewhat different with distilled water and salt. less trace elements in the water. Thank you.
Use distilled water.
You've got a ferric and chromium chloride maker there Clive
How is this scam allowed to be a service? I just had this done and told the attendant that the color was coming out of the device not even near my feet and english was not her first language so i didnt understand she mumbled it was working but im frustrated right now bc i now im watching videos after mom telling me oh u just got scammed and these videos prove it.
Similar devices are also sold to "purify" tap water. When I was in school, I returned home one afternoon to find a salesman of such a device trying to convince my parents its necessity regarding our tap water. He, of course, attempted to shmooze up to me and asked what I was studying. Upon being told that I was studying environmental engineering, I noticed a slight look of alarm in his eyes and less than 5 minutes later, he had wrapped up his spiel, promising to get back to us. Almost 20 years on, they're still waiting for him to get back in touch! XD
I'd be curious what effect changing the electolyte from table salt to vinegar or a non-chloride salt, like epsom salts, would have on the reaction.
You know the Asian nail techs will be trying to sell this in the nail salon I hope I don’t get asked because I’ll be brutally honest!
Glad I didn't waste my money on this. Thank you.
Several years ago the FTC brought a fraud case against the kinoki foot pad demonstrating that detox through your feet is not possible. The fraud of the foot bath detox is easily demonstrated by running it with no feet in the water. You get the same Rusty discolored result.
If you electrolyze salt water it turns into sudiumhyphochloride Bleach well seams like a good idea
Not only are toxic metallic salts being produced. But the electrolysis of salt water also produces CHLORINE GASS.
A friend says he has 3 of these one for each family member!🤣🧙♂️