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22 Responses to 'Ion Cleanse – Crud of The Month- September 2006'

1. T - November 15th, 2006 at 2:49 pm

   I worked in a Alternative Chiroprators office, and they had one of these devices. They charged 25 bucks per 30 minute session and recommend 12 sessions. I thought then and still do now that it was all a scam. The doctor claimed that it used osmosis to remove the toxins out of your body.

   Sadly some people will believe anything, I saw right through this from the beginning.

2. Tim - January 10th, 2007 at 7:56 pm

   Who ever wrote ‘Ion Cleanse-crud of the month’obviously never read all the literature that was supplied with the unit. It TELLS YOU to do a ‘footless session’ with just the water so you can compare the colour change! By the way, I hope you are not drinking the water if thats the colour it turned by itself, as its only reacting with the impurities in the water.
   It also stresses that the process is not a cure nor a treatment for any illness or disorder.
   I have no vested interest in regards to promotions or sales of this unit. I only know from first hand knowledge of how my family and I benefitted from this unit. I am a major skeptic of any passing fad as well as what the pharmaceutical push on us. I was left with a debilitating condition as a result of an adverse reaction to a prescription drug for approx.4 years. Apart from modified office work, I was pretty much house bound. My experience with the Ion Cleanse unit started with a recommendation from a relative who suffered from swollen ankles and whose meds were constantly increased to the point of severe side effects. After three treatments, her ankles returned to normal and no longer required meds for the conditon. My wife tried it and some toxin related conditions were relieved. So I figured what do I have to lose so I tried it. After two treatments, a sore and stiff elbow that was bothering me for about 4 years was resolved. After 4 treatments, ALL THE SYMPTOMS OF MY MED REACTION WERE GONE! At that point I was hooked and bought a machine for our family. I “Followed the directions” and did a trial run with only water and salt.(we have a purification system on our house water that removes chlorine and other chemicals from the purification plant as well as softening the water). I ran the unit for 30 minutes and only a very faint yellow/brown, like a very very weak tea colour emerged. I then changed the water and salt solution in the basin and put my feet in. Within minutes, I could see the colour changing to a very dark brown, foam appeared and then it turned very dark green/black.
   So I guess you could say that I already took your ‘dare’ and proved you very wrong.

   I suggest you research more before you post erroneous information.

   I highly recommend this machine for cleaning toxins from the body. Because of using this unit, I am no longer house bound, I have my life back.
   Please refer to the following web site for info.
   http://www.ioncleanse.com/
   (I apologise for the previous post sent before spell check)

3. Malowe - January 11th, 2007 at 1:22 am

   There’s another sham shiller shilling for IonCleanse.

   Before anyone buys a Wallet Cleanse, check out these sites:

   http://www.scam.com/showthread.php?t=16927
   http://www.skepchick.org/skepticsguide/viewtopic.php?t=743&sid=e4eb990c90ea408c98a4f1eb667f6834
   http://www.scamfraudalert.com/archive/index.php?f-88.html
   http://www.detoxificationtoday.com/
   http://stupidevilbastard.com/index/weblog/comments/conversations_with_a_dumbass/
   http://www.projo.com/news/content/projo_20050108_raid8.a337f.html

4. Wendy - January 11th, 2007 at 9:00 pm

   It’s unfortunate that when someone gives their opinion on this site that others have to put that person down. Just because one does not believe in natural healing doesn’t make it wrong and doesn’t warrant a rude reply back. There are many natural ways of healing that are very effective and work far better than any traditional medicine from a regular doctor. The Ion Cleanse (even though some do not believe in it) is a natural healing product and as the same with many natural healing remedies – traditional medicine does not believe it in. I am very pleased to say that there are some doctors that are now opening their minds to natural medicine. My husband had a serious debilitating problem for 5 years that no specialist could heal him of – it was called Hyperacusis – a side effect condition caused by taking Paxil for only one month. After 5 years of seeing specialists with no answer but to wear ear plugs we went to a natural path who suggested the Ion Cleanse. The natural path did not state that it would heal any specific disease only that it would clean the body of toxin and then the body would heal itself of whatever. My husband noticed wonderful results after the first treatment and we were very skeptical – we went back for another treatment and more results – after 5 treatments – yes at 35.00 Cdn per treatment – his hearing was corrected. We now no longer use plastic plates but glass plates, we can clap, we can laugh loudly, he can play music in his car – the sound sensitivity of Hyperacusis has disappeared completely. Now you tell me that the Ion Cleanse is a farce. Sorry but we believe in it as we believe in many herbal and cleansing techniques. We have living proof. So please don’t insult others that believe in something just because you don’t.

5. Ralph - August 21st, 2007 at 1:28 pm

   I too am a believer in the ionic footbath. As a practioner I have owned or used several different brands. My experience is that the $2400 and up foot baths don’t do any more good than the $1200 to $1500 ones. The cheap Far East units are a waste of money, they don’t perform. Try one for several sessions before you pass judgement.

6. mark - September 21st, 2007 at 6:16 pm

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7. Audrey - March 15th, 2008 at 12:10 pm

   Thanks TIM for your honest experieced appraisal of the Ionic Cleanse treatments. As a therapist, I have been doing these cleanses for 9 months with my clients. I have had reports of dead tapeworms worms in the stool following cleanses, I’ve seen dead pin worms in the water, I have seen a parasite that appeared to be clear like a jelly fish but only 1/2 in long from someone who helped clean up after the storm down south who walked barefoot in the debris, I’ve seen VERY blue water from a person with much radiation in them, I have seen and heard the results of liver cleansing, I have heard the results of MS-like symptoms disappearing, I have heard the results of Rheumatoid Arthritis totally diappearing after 100 treatments, I have testimonies of persons with pain just leaving their bodies, I could go on and on with positive results from these foot cleanses, so IF IT WORKS FOR MANY, DON’T CRITICISE A THEREAPY THAT IS TRULY ANCIENT.

8. Andrea - April 11th, 2008 at 1:38 pm

   I too am a HUGE believer in the Ion Footbath Technology. I have seen a 90 year old woman who was on very heavy narcotic drugs due to a hip fracture come off all the drugs after only 4 30 minute sessions. I have seen a person who had not been able to use her thumb for 2 years due to arthritic pain start moving the thumb during the first session. It has many many benefits. It does work for many, but not all. Please don’t criticise a therapy that could possibly help someone get thier life back!!!

9. iloj - May 28th, 2008 at 9:55 pm

   Ion Cleanse Dexotifying Footbath Reviewed by Owner of Best Medical Spa in America, Kile Law http://www.bluewaterspa.com/whoweare.html, Owner of Blue Water Spa http://www.bluewaterspa.com , voted best medical spa in America 2006 and 2007 experiences Ion Cleansing first hand. …um foot

   Whenever I hear about a detoxifying treatment I am both intrigued and skeptical. One of the newest “detox” treatments is an “ion cleanse” that requires an individual to immerse their feet in a basin of water for 30 minutes. They go by names like ion cleanse ionic footbath, ionic cleanse foot detox bath among others. The claim is that a variety of toxins will be released through the feet.

   I was told the water in the basin may change color and consistency from orange, brown through to black — due to the release of toxic substances through the pores on the sole of each foot. I was told when the water is changing colors, each color represents the part of the body that is being detoxified.

   I thought I would give the ion cleanse a try and experienced a demonstration myself.

   Blue Water Spa’s spa manager Mari Beth Hedeman and I both elected to have ion cleanse treatments. We sat side by side as the ion cleansing procedure started. We placed our feet in basins of warm, clear water. An electrical device that looked like a filter (but clearly was NOT a filter) was placed in the basin. This device powered the ion cleanse machine. Within minutes, the water began changing color. Yellow, orange, green, black. The water was also bubbly. It looked like sewage. The woman providing the demonstration analyzed the water in the basins. We were told we were releasing toxins through our feet. The colors, according to her, indicated we both were releasing a lot of toxins and a lot of metals. She said something about toxins from our gallbladder being released. She also stated that she noticed “lymph” in the water..

   I asked about evidence. There were no published medical studies available. And, the person providing the demonstration could not give me the name of a single physician who uses this device in their practice.

   The biggest surprise was when I asked what would happen if we performed a treatment but did not immerse feet in the water. Apparently, the water would turn colors and bubble up whether an individual’s feet were immersed in the water or not. Hmmmm……. I thought the colors in the water were based on toxins being released.

   Maybe this treatment really does something. There are several manufacturers of these devices and it is possible that there are significant differences between the systems. Maybe somewhere, evidence does exist that this treatment really does work. All I know personally is that when I asked for evidence it was not available to me.

   In my opinion, this treatment can provide a deep cleaning of one’s bank account. The only real evidence presented about this device was the amount of money practitioners were making by providing this treatment to consumers.

   This device claims to help from everything from arthritis to cancer. The woman providing the demonstration mentioned a several times the positive effects this treatment can have on children with autism. Of course, there was absolutely no evidence available about how this treatment could possibly treat autism. I was sickened by the thought of practitioners purchasing this system and promoting it to parents who are desperately looking for anything available that might help a child with a health concern. People who seek out opportunities make money from people who are faced with adversity in my opinion are the lowest of the low.

   I am blessed with healthy children. But, I imagine that if the health of my children was compromised that I would try absolutely anything and spend any amount of money on any treatment that promised a cure or an improvement.

   The public needs to ask for evidence of safety and efficacy of products and devices that make claims about improving health or well being. Sadly, there will always be some unscrupulous people, including many so called medical spas not owned and operated by physicians who evaluate treatments based on the revenue they can generate rather than the safety and efficacy of a procedure or device.

   For more information about Blue Water Spa, a medical spa owned and operated by board certified plastic surgeon Michael Law MD please go to http://www.bluewaterspa.com or http://www.michaellawmd.com

10. Try it for yourself...... - August 29th, 2008 at 5:08 pm

    Would everyone who is booing this product just SHUT UP! If you have never tried it then don’t say a word about it. Of course there are going to be people out there that don’t believe in any natural remedies, they swear by the doctor’s, well you know what doctors can be morons too! They DO NOT know everything! And it is better for your body to try to help it naturally than w/ horrible drugs!

    I just started using the Ioncleanse, I have gone to 4 sessions now, I am only 31 yrs old, so I don’t have a lot of problems but I just started my period and usually my period is so heavy that I have to change my tampon (super size ones) every hour or I will be sorry that I didn’t, well this time it was a lot lighter than usual not near as heavy, so I’m wondering if this Ioncleanse treatment is helping w/ that! I want to give it a fair shake, my mom goes too she has rheumatoid arthritis, and lupus, she says she hurts a lot less now, and she feels better, she has only been to 5 treatments. So I say try it, give it a month of sessions, if your under 40 yrs old you can go 3 times a week, if your older than 40 only twice a week, so try a months worth of treatments and see for yourself if you feel better or different. But don’t just listen to all those doctor’s butt kissers out there! Try it yourself.

11. William Lundberg, MD, PHD - September 6th, 2008 at 7:52 pm

    To all of you who are skeptical of this product: Good for you! You are one of the few educated people who are smart enough not to fall for this ridiculous product! For those of you who are fall for IonCleanse’s absurd claims: I feel sorry for you. Don’t worry because many people fall victim to these types of scams. I am an MD/PHD in a large research hospital. I overheard one of my nurses talking about this “miraculous” treatment and I told her what I am about to tell you. However, just like you, she wouldn’t listen. So, I bought an IonCleanse so my students and I could find out the truth and publish the results. The results will be published in a medical journal later this fall. What did we find? A big shocker! IonCleanse doesn’t work! After numerous tests, with different types of water, different people, different parts of the body, and even using a fake foot – it is a hoax. The only substance found in the water was rust. The “foam” that you see on top of the water is merely a combination of dead skin cells and body oils. There were no toxins of any kind in the water, just as we suspected. Why did we suspect this? (1) The largest pores in your body is not in your feet! They are located on your face, nose, back, and chest. Some of the smallest pores are located on your feet! (2) It is impossible to “pull out toxins” from your skin. We already have a “detoxifying” agent in our body. It’s called the liver. (3) Don’t you think if all the world’s diseases could be cured by a foot bath we wouldn’t be spending trillions of dollars in medical research finding REAL cures? Come on people, you are smarter than this. “If it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is.” A colleague of mine had a patient come in with diabetic neuropathy and lesions on her feet than had become infected. According to the patient, she had been undergoing IonCleanse treatment at a local herbal shop because they told her it would cure her diabetic feet. After 10 treatments and hundreds of dollars, she decided to go to a doctor (my colleague). She had to have both of her lower extremities amputated below the patella two weeks ago. This could have been treated and her legs saved if she had only came in for medical help sooner. This is a tragic event and I can only pray that you will seek real medical help before you fall victim to this dangerous alternative therapy. It might not be your feet you lose but your life. For more information, keep an eye out for my article in New England Journal of Medicine and possibly JAMA later this year. Hope this helps! (sorry for typos; had to write this quickly. My wife came across this site and I couldn’t help but comment – for the sake of those reading this.)

12. Colleen - December 18th, 2008 at 9:37 am

    To William…..none of your attempts at disproving the Ioncleanse negate the excellent results that many have had, and continue to have. Any successful option that we have for holisticly keeping ouselves healthy is a threat to you and your profession…mainly in you bank accounts. I suspect that is where you are truly responding from. And no, I don’t believe that this is anything that the medical profession would ever back up no matter how effective it is. You can’t get rich off of it…doctoring would have to go back to the humble position of being a public servant that it was always intended to be. I won’t hold my breath for that. But i will keep referring people for Ioncleansing!!

13. Stephen - January 3rd, 2009 at 11:00 am

    I choose not to enter into this argument of a proffesional doctor or doctoring oneself. I have tried the ion cleanse and read many articles concerning the validity of this treatment.The water color has nothing to do with the viability of ionic treatment. The energy from this treatment enables the body to rid itself of unwanted toxins much like other forms of cleansing. However, what good does any form of cleansing do if you cant excrete the waste generated? Therefore water intake and diet also play an important part in therapy for the body. How can we rank the merit of ionic cleansing as a stand alone therapy? We must also include water supply, environment and diet to conclude specific results.

14. Stephen - January 3rd, 2009 at 11:03 am

    By the way I have tried ionic cleansing through the feet and also seen the results of the water alone. After years of sore legs and that always feeling tired I can say the relief was well worth the cost.

15. Doll - February 2nd, 2009 at 11:53 pm

    Did any of the happy customers take foot baths that regularly before starting the ion-treatments? A standard foot soak or foot spa is very relaxing, and works on many levels!

    Have you considered the effect that just the extra care, with feet being “spoiled”, and someone is caring about you (and you about yourself) during your appointments has? Even without ions?

    And also the strange effect cost has on most people: “the more it costs – the better it must be”… Everyone has their own way of learning to be good to themselves and get healthier and happier that way.

    Please remember that each case is individual, and each reason for improvement is too. It’s wonderful to tell people that something made you feel healthy, but it can be very dangerous to act or say that it’s a fact.

    This is what “accurate testing of ALL factors involved” is for! To keep people from hurting eachother or themselves! “hear-say”, estimates, and personal opinion is not science, it’s personal opinion, and a lot of times just plain gossip and guesses.

    I believe that many conditions can be healed or improved by natural means, because several techniques worked for me, but I don’t claim it as fact that it’ll work for all others and cure everything.

    It’s the claims without proof (extensive double-blind testing) that are nasty, and have led some (desperately ill or in terrible pain) good people to spend the last of their money on scams, or worse yet – do irreversible harm to themselves.

    And don’t believe that scientific testing is a medical industry controlled thing. The medical industry likes their money as much as the scam-artists, and they also like to make claims and sell drugs that have not been tested thoroughly enough!

    There are many scientists that are not part of the “big pharma”, and independent tests are done as well.

    Check out what you can find on any new miracle cure, and make sure you double check to see the credentials and check the background of anyone making claims!!!

    When you are absolutely definitely sure that this “new thing” cannot harm you in any way, give it a go… But unless it involves an airplane flight or something special like that, there is never a need to spend 100′s of dollars for natural techniques!

    Look after yourself, be alert, check things out WELL, and then you’ll find techniques that really works for you.
    Share your opinions of it with others…just make sure you remind them that this is how it is for you, but to check things out for themselves, too! :^)

16. Foot Bath Spa - February 4th, 2009 at 3:50 pm

    I did some searching and I did find a few pages, but none that had well written information like this! Keep it up!

17. lui - May 5th, 2010 at 12:07 am

    I want to know if there is any scientific anaylsis of the substance that is left in the water after a foot bath??

18. Ummmmmm - May 5th, 2010 at 7:57 am

    I’m curious how this can be an “ancient” and holistic remedy from china when it relies on electricity which was not discovered until the 18th century and it’s properties weren’t harnessed until the 19th century.

    I have never tried it, so I’m not going to say that it doesn’t work. However, just because companies make claims that something works doesn’t mean that it isn’t a scam. It doesn’t sound like there have been any real studies done to prove the efficacy of this product. Anyone who has any knowledge of science knows that you can’t rely on antecdotal evidence.

    People may knock the FDA, but at least they require some proof that a product works before it can be delivered to the masses for money. If it truly works as well as everyone says, test this in a controlled study. My guess is that the makers of the product don’t want to spend the money to do this because they know it will only prove that their product is no more effective than an Epsom salt bath which you can do at home for pennies.

19. Lynn - July 30th, 2010 at 11:00 pm

    It definately works – I’ve felt and seen amazing results in my own body. Weight loss, increased energy, improved mental funcation, skin and hair. Others have even noticed. So convinced, I purchased my own machine for $2,600! Best invetment I have ever made.

20. Lynn - July 30th, 2010 at 11:03 pm

    You don’t need electricity to produce ions. Negative ions are created by waves crashing on the beach, winds blowing through trees – since most of us can’t experience this everyday – hence the electrical version. Wouldn’t have made sense to me prior to my anatomy/phisiology class and Kineseology.

21. Lynn - July 30th, 2010 at 11:25 pm

    Another thing that I’ve noticed and, havn’t seen posted anywhere, it that my ion cleanse seems to cure hangovers when I have had too much wine. Don’t knock it until you try a decent system. My mother’s chiro is also using cold laster treatments (quantum neurology) the EB balance (ionic system) to remove the toxic effects of Enbrel and Remicade that have left her nearly paralized and in a private care home to the tune of $5,400 per month. She is now walking and talking – in fact the other day during our appointment, another client who frequently sees me bring her in in a wheel chair, and saw us walk by to the treatment room said, “beutiful, absolutley beutiful!”

    Yes it is, the toxic drugs where killing her. Wish I would have know about these alternative therapies 20 years ago!

22. Lynn - July 30th, 2010 at 11:32 pm

    William Lundberg, MD, PHD – my mother’s doctors all poo-pood me too, when I ceased the over medicating and radiating. No wonder – Remicade injections are the biggest money maker in the pharmacutical industry ($4k-3K per infusion – that last two hours in to the cubodial bone!!! – pumping her blood and bones full of mouse protiens for 10 years – numerous costly CT scans following neurosurgery for a large benign brain tumor – (that I believe was caused be Enbrel) left her nearly paralyzed and near death. The past three months – I have made more progress with her return to health than the PHD’s, Neurologists, Neurosurgeons, various specialists. . .have done in years! There are very successful options out there to medicating and radiating, and the Pharm kings who reap in billions from their killer drugs don’t want us to know about it.

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