You're welcome. I'm glad it was a benefit to you.

The minerals they give are usually a general broad-range liquid mineral supplement which contains a wide range of minerals including trace minerals—which are important. Good stuff to take actually. Most people could seriously use a mineral supplement.


As for the post about decreasing color density of the water used in their foot spa sessions...

I have read lab research on a particular foot spa website that says that they found increases of Urea, Creatinine, and Glucose.

— http://amajordifference.com/ion_research.php

Getting urea, creatinine, and glucose out via the feet really seems useless to me, to be honest, but could be playing a role in the color differences in the water, although doubtful. Unfortunately, this data is just not too interesting, in my opinion. More studies need to be done.

My contention in the studies that we did is that we should have seen a substantial rise in the heavy metals. We should have seen some significant changes in each occupied test as compared to the controls that made us go, "wow". Unfortunately, there were not.

http://herballure.com/Studies/IonicFootSpa.html

This vendor page now has a "Heavy Metals Report" showing increases in heavy metals. I believe it's important to understand the amounts of heavy metals involved—as our test also showed an increase in heavy metal content for some metals, but...

Here's a quote from our experiment:

"We also need to consider the Average Daily Intake column showing the daily human ingestion of lead, which is 0.25 milligrams4. If we draw a ratio between the average amount of lead increase in the occupied water samples (.0016 mg) to the average amount of lead consumed by humans daily (0.25 mg), we find that the increase amounts to a very small percentage of the daily human intake of lead: 0.64%."

"To put this into perspective, if we assume that the foot spa removes .0016 mg of lead per session and we assume that a person consumes an average of 0.25 mg of lead per day1, it would require 156 foot spa sessions to remove the amount of lead an average person consumes in a single day."

— http://herballure.com/Studies/IonicFootSpa.html#Lead

Now, referring to their heavy metal study, they claim that their device removed .00571 mg/L of lead (you have to convert ppb —their unit of measurement, to mg/L—our unit of measurement). To put this into perspective, if you consume 0.25 mg of lead per day, you would need to have 43 of their foot spa sessions to remove the amount of lead you consume in a single day.


Here is an honest excerpt from a different foot spa website:



— http://www.cleanbodydetox.com/

In the end, I believe we're going to find that these baths are mostly useless for the purpose of removing heavy metals. They may have some positive effect on the body, but I'm skeptical because of the unnatural voltages you encounter during a session and because of the limited amount of substance that can be excreted through pores in 30 minutes.

I am, however, open minded and would love to find out that there is some safe and easy and effective way to detox heavy metals. If anyone finds one, let me know.

In all honesty, foot patches may have more promise than foot spas.