Kinoki Detox Footpads

Ok After the last post I have to say I am guilty as charged:D.... but after one night I am so grossed out that I want my money back...tomorrow they are going in an envelope and I'm calling my back with the return slip....
I found this on them this morning:
The footpads do not work. The discoloration on the pad is just an iron reaction with your sweat (basically creating rust on the pad). The change in time of the color of the pad until it is white is due to a layer (Im not sure of what yet) being deposited on your foot by the pad. When you dont wear the pad for a few days (ie, building up toxins) your socks, shoes, etc rub this layer off and when you wear the pad again after not having worn it for a few days, it will turn dark again, gradually build up another layer on your foot and the cycle repeats..

Furthermore you have a really weird sticky film on your foot :eek:of God know what ... after wearing one for one night.... (the film also transfered to my other foot when I scratch the pad during the night with my foot) Frankly, that was enough to give me the heebie jeebies. My foot also burned all day where I had it on...hmmmm may be I should get that checked out...

Anyway...thanks again for the laughs!!!! You guys are too much....
 
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BTW it was my husband who was the sucker but I am guilty by association
 
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An acquaintance of mine used these a few months ago and also mentioned that they react to iron. She is anemic so her kinoki 20 dollar iron detectors did not change colors. I mean, her blood was so pure that no toxins could be removed.
 
Quackwatch has an article on these. They work just like those detoxifying foot baths- they react with moisture, whether or not your feet touch 'em. ABC did an investigative piece on them, too. I can't link, or post urls, but if you go to quackwatch, you can find it via "consumer health digest #08-16", or just search for "foot pads".
 
How odd that Kinoki company doesn't comment. One should have to verify the claims they make about their products or pay back the money they take.
 
These things — like most things of similar nature — work very well for their intended purpose. What too many people fail to understand is that the intended purpose of these things is to separate gullible suckers from their money.
 
For those who could not hear the NPR radio clip about Kinoki (some links don't last forever), the reporter took a fresh new Kinoki pad (bright white) and the one her husband had worn all night (which was greyish) to a professional chem lab and found out that the heavy metals found in the used pad were virtually identical to those found in the unused pad; that the pads came from the manufacturer with minute traces of heavy metals (this was not uncommon in the manufacturing of almost anything, so by itself this fact was not sinister) and the metals were not from her husband's feet. As for the used pad being greyish and dingy, it turned out there was something in the pad's ingredients that turned it grey when exposed to the moisture of the human foot; holding a fresh unused pad over a pot of boiling water similarly turned it grey.
A physician gave his opinion that the body eliminates heavy metals and other toxins through a variety of methods, mostly involving the digestive system, but not through the soles of the feet.
According to NPR, the Kinoki company did not return phone calls asking for their comment.

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I had not thought to test fresh Kinoki pads, I simply assumed that whatever showed up on the used Kinoki was detritus from the surface of the skin - not from the interior of the body, primarily accumulated from even a limited amount of walking barefoot around the house. The NPR analysis was quite informative.
 
I wonder if feet are becoming the new accupuncture.

I recently read an email that claimed Vicks vaporub put generously on the feet, will stop a cough 100% of the time.
 
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I wonder if feet are becoming the new accupuncture.

I recently read an email that claimed Vicks vaporub put generously on the feet, will stop a cough 100% of the time.
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What was the pseudoscience explanation behind that?
 
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