How Detox Really Works

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The Detox Truth

The buzz word in the footbath industry has always been “Detox”. These Detox themes seem to vary from one company to another, so we put our researchers to work to find out is there really a Detox effect from a footbath and whose story about Detox is most credible. After surfing the net for days, footbath site after footbath site looking for what footbath manufacturers were claiming, we found that there are clearly two separate and different approaches to explaining the Detox dilemma. One side claims that toxins are sucked out through the feet and can be identified with the use of a color chart. The other states that Detox is a natural process the body engages in due to the effect of increasing cell function with the addition of energy and claims the color chart is a load of rubbish. Which theory is more plausible and what scientific data exists that could determine which is correct? Solving this puzzle turned out to be easier than we thought it might be. Scientific fact on cell function and how the body works was not hard to find and it became obvious that sucking toxins out through the feet with some kind of “magic vacuum cleaner” was simply science fiction. Now that we know which is correct, here is how it really works.

The Basic Cell

There are many cells in our body that perform different functions. Each cell is comprised of

three basic components (Diagram A). These components are the Nucleus, the internal structure surrounding the nucleus and the plasma membrane which is the outer wall of the cell.

When the cell is functioning correctly it has a

good flow of liquid (water) going through it.

The liquid has two ways to enter and leave the

cell structure. The outer membrane or plasma

membrane is a selectively permeable barrier

meaning that it allows some substances to pass

while excluding others.

When a substance can penetrate the plasma membrane without any energy input from the cell it is called passive transport. When the cell must provide metabolic energy the process is

called active transport. The movement of water into the cell is an example of passive transport while movement of amino acids and most ions across the membrane is active transport.

The Plasma Membrane

The plasma membrane as well as being selectively permeable has another very important function. It maintains a potential voltage difference (Diagram B).

This important difference is between the internal structure of the cell and the extracellular fluid (outside of the cell). Its electrical potential value plays a part in helping the membrane be selectively permeable. If this potential drops too low, it contributes to loss of cell integrity.

There are a lot of things that can go wrong when we exert an outside influence on the cell such as a toxin. Our bodies are capable of withstanding low levels of toxins, but if those levels get too high, a chain of events take place that can compromise the integrity of the cell. The integrity of the cell can be affected from both the outside and the inside and the toxins that can cause the problem do not need to come from an external source because the cell itself produces a waste product (nucleic acid) that could be considered a toxin. Some toxins remain in the extracellular fluid surrounding the cell and can become attached to the cell membrane when cell energy is low or the cell becomes stressed.

There are two main ways toxins could become a problem in your body.

1. Toxin build-up of natural waste from the cell itself.

2. Toxin build-up by low level artificial toxins e.g., man-made compounds.

1. Toxin build-up of natural waste from the cell itself.

Toxin build-up by natural waste product is where the body accumulates a build-up of the natural waste product from the cell, nucleic waste. This can occur when Liver and Kidney

function are low and are not extracting all of the waste out of the extracellular fluid (blood). In diagram C the basic function of the cell is illustrated. It goes like this, water which we have

termed W enters the cell via passive transport, W then reacts with the internal structure B and the Nucleus A. The product of the reaction between W and A + B is Nucleic waste C. The cell is very efficient when functioning fully and reacts all the W (water) on a 1:1 basis meaning all of the Water is used with an equal amount of Nucleic waste C being produced.

When the liver and kidney function is low the extracellular fluid becomes contaminated with waste product. What happens then is instead of just W entering the cell, the W becomes Wc meaning a combination of W and any remaining C. This causes changes in the reaction inside the cell. Now there is a Wc, Ac and Bc reaction which is not how the cell is supposed to work (Diagram D above). The cell is no longer operating efficiently and the metabolic energy being used is wasteful. When metabolic energy is being wasted you experience fatigue.

2. Toxin build-up by low level artificial toxins External Toxin Build-Up

External toxin build up is when toxins begin to accumulate on the outside of the cell (Diagram E). One of the causes of this is when the membrane potential is incorrect (too high or too low) the toxins can stick to the membrane. This deprives the cell of the natural flow of W (water) into the cell and also restricts the exit of the nucleic waste. Once again cell function is compromised so the cell is unable function correctly.

The process is cyclic, the more the toxins build up the less efficient the cell becomes and the longer this goes on the harder it is to reverse the process. There are two processes the body uses to solve this problem. Firstly, receiving energy to raise the membrane potential and secondly the white blood cells.

(Yes, the white blood cells help clean the outside of the cells, but this will have to be another article to fully cover the topic.)

Internal toxin build-up

Internal Toxin build-up by low level artificial toxins is where a toxin has managed to penetrate the cell membrane and enter into the internal structure. Toxins can achieve this in times of low cell integrity.

White blood cells play a part in this operation. One of the things white blood cells do is clean the toxins off of the plasma membrane of the cells. White blood cells damage the membrane during the process of removal leaving it temporarily vulnerable. If the cell cannot repair in time the toxins can enter into the cell. Once a toxin has entered

into the internal structure of the cell it causes problems. To eject the toxin the cell requires metabolic energy to perform active transport which requires the cell to use its own energy to eject the invader. If the cell does not have the spare energy to do this, a build-up starts.

What the footbath does to your cells.

The first thing the footbath does is to increase the potential on the plasma membrane surrounding the cell (diagram G). This applies to all cells throughout the body. This also has an effect on the internal structure of the cell because the energy being supplied to the cell is compatible with the metabolic energy of the cell. This effectively increases the available metabolic energy that the cell can function with. Once this is achieved a number of things start to happen. By increasing the energy value of the cell membrane we also increase the value of the electrical field that results from the electrical potential on the cell membrane itself. Boosting and extending this field to the proper parameters effects the toxins that have attached themselves to the cell membrane. It also helps restore integrity to the actual membrane itself so that the function of being selectively permeable is restored to proper operation. Restoring proper cell function increases the body’s ability to start to process the

toxins properly again.

Once the toxins are detached from the cell

membrane they are once again free to be moved by the extracellular fluid. The liver and kidney can now remove more of the toxins reducing the load on the rest of the systems. The rest of the body’s natural processes with the extra energy also aid with removal the toxins as there are more systems other than the liver and kidney

that are responsible for doing this.

This also has the effect of once again letting clean W (extracellular Fluid) flow correctly through the membrane. With the clean W now flowing through the system the cells can start to re-balance the internal levels of W and C. The clean intercellular fluid begins to restore the action of the nucleus (A) and the internal structure (B). The effect on A and B that is causing the cell to function as Ac and Bc balances so that the Ac + Bc return to the proper AB function. In effect the cell has become cleansed with the added benefit of the extra metabolic energy. The Cell and the Intercellular fluid are now restored to normal function except the metabolic energy now available to the cell is greater. With the cell in a much healthier state and with the increased metabolic energy it can begin to function properly and do any repairs that may be required. Toxins that have entered the cell during its poor health have been purged or actively transported from the internal structure. And all this is made possible because of the energy input to the cell from the footbath unit.

(Please note that any reference to a Footbath Unit is based on actual Aqua-Chi independent research and not any other device currently available)

No “Magic Vacuum Cleaner”

just science!