Has anyone tried else tried these detox foot pads?! I'm curious to know if anyone has and how they felt. I was skeptical for sure but my girlfriend bought me some and i thought what the hell i'll try them.

The reaction i got was similar to that of taking DMSA. In fact it was identical. I ached all over, i grinded my teeth at night until they hurt and my head was clearer the next day.

I've read so many negative comments about these pads saying they don't do anything but they definitely do something. I doubt whether they chelate mercury but they are not inactive and have made a positive difference, although i can only use them twice a week due to the strength of them.

They've also come down in price and they might be an option for people who can't tolerate other supplements. So to ask the question again. Anyone else tried them?!

Hi stuart, I have used those before,has well has other types.

I too definitely feel different the next day from using them..
Im taking loads of different things at the moment.has some of you know i have lyme disease.Im not 100% better yet but getting there..
I been on the buhner protocol for the last 7 months,
The products im mostly taking at the moment are from biogetica.
I find them great.

www.biogetica.com


Heres some info about detox foot pads......

Dr. Klinghardt Sheds Light on “Detoxifying” Foot Pads

In my recent two-hour Inner Circle interview with my good friend, Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt -- who is a pioneer and one of my primary mentors in natural medicine, and founder and president of the American Academy of Neural Therapy – I had the opportunity to ask him for his perspective and experience with detoxifying foot pads.

I came in contact with the foot pads about ten years ago through a Swiss-based company that was marketing the first footpad in Europe. The company is called Seguin, and they’re marketing the traditional Japanese foot pad.

It’s been out for over 100 years; the Japanese are using fermented bamboo vinegar. Now, what struck me at the time is that this bamboo juice had to be fermented for nine years before it was used.

We tried other foot pads, and there was clearly an effect similar to acupuncture, where people’s energetic systems improved.

I did not see any significant triggering of detoxification—we just saw improvements in the autonomic nervous system, depending on where you put the foot pad.

Typically, by putting it on the soles of the feet, there is, in acupuncture, a relationship to the kidney meridian. And we did find that an improvement in urine, and in the organic acids. The kidneys bind toxins to organic acids, and the more organic acids come out, the more effective the kidneys are working.

And we clearly saw an improvement with that.

So, the benefit is not really relating to heavy metals, but more to the carbon-based toxins.

Then several other companies came out with different concoctions of things that they put in a footpad -- that were not fermented for 9 years -- other sorts of more exotic things, and they made all sorts of claims…

I simply use my muscle testing in my autonomic response testing system, and none of the [commercial] pads have held up. Some of them looked promising, but none of them held up and have become part of my approach. I don’t want to say that all of them are bad or worthless, but the ones I tested certainly didn’t hold their promise.

There’s always an initial placebo effect when you do something like this.

Certainly I can say that bamboo vinegar in the original pads had clear benefits that we could also biochemically demonstrate, but I think there is a lot of questionable science out there with that, so I have stopped using them.

So there you have it.

There may be some biochemical benefits from the original Japanese foot pads that contain more expensive ingredients, such as 9-year old fermented bamboo vinegar.

But, as far as detoxing heavy metals and toxins, not even the original foot pads could accomplish that.

As the investigations by the NPR, ABC and MSNBC, Dr. Klinghardt couldn’t find any proof that the pads drew out toxins or metabolic wastes either.

Toxicology Lab Found No Toxins in Used Foot Pads

Like reporter Sarah Varney, 20/20’s correspondent John Stossel also took used pads in for toxicology testing. And, like hers, Stossel’s results came back negative.

20/20 asked NMS Labs, a national laboratory in Willow Grove, Pa., to analyze used Kinoki and Avon pads from eight volunteers. They tested for heavy metals, including arsenic and mercury, and 23 solvents such as benzene, tolulene and styrene.

None of these common toxins were found in the used pads.

So what’s that brown, foul-smelling gunk?

It’s just a natural reaction between the ingredients and the moisture from the bottom of your foot.

Exposing the pads to moisture, either by placing them over a steaming pot of water, or putting a few drops of water on them will make the ingredients turn a darker color and emit an unpleasant odor.

Dr. Devra Davis, director of the Center for Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh and an expert on toxins, also conducted a similar experiment on her own, leaving the pads out overnight without their protective packaging. In an article for MSNBC she stated the pads contain “little more than green tea and vinegar,” and that the color and odor are likely the result of these ingredients “interacting with oxygen, heat or moisture.”

20/20 asked Avon and Kinoki for scientific test results showing the pads do what they claim to do, but neither company fulfilled the request..