Inside two different body detox foot spa electrodes.

I've featured one of these electrodes before, but noticed that they now have them on eBay in different shapes and colours. This is part of a beauty or health spa scam where the "patient" puts their feet in a bowl of water and a machine draws all the impurities out of their body through the soles of their feet in the form of a brown sludge. In reality the machine is little more than a low voltage current limited supply that causes accelerated corrosion of the stainless steel electrodes in the housing. The heating effect of the current flow and the electrolytic action of splitting the water into hydrogen and oxygen results in turbulence that carries the brown metal-rich water out of the electrode. The treatment can be set between between about 5 to 30 minutes depending on how expensive or dramatic you want the session to be. The electrodes cost about £5 upwards and last up to 50 sessions. (10p a session!) Their pseudoscience blurb goes along the lines of:- "Through ion permeation, it can enhance cell activity, improve metabolism, actively promote the growth of yeast in the body, promote liver detoxification, reduce edema, rheumatism and arthritis." It also gives you some fake beauty blurb to tell your patients:- "What you can expect to feel when use it: feel lighter and sense of well being. People with pain, edema, gout, swollen or deteriorating joints report considerable relief. Skin rashes and pimples, dark circles around eyes, swollen joints are substantially reduced and in some cases even eliminated." Now for a positive slant on these scams. If the placebo effect makes people feel better then I'm OK with that as long as the cost is realistic for a simple therapy treatment and it is not implied as a cure for terrible diseases. I'm also open to the possibility that the low exposure (microdosing) to fairly toxic metals like chromium and nickel in an active water dispersion could have therapeutic effects by permeating into the feet. In the meantime. If you want to try the treatment for yourself, just buy an electrode and hook it up to some AA cells and drop it in a footbath filled with hot water and a dash of salt. Here's a search link for the electrodes:- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from... Here's the original video:-    • Ionic foot detox electrode scam.  How it w...   And here's a research article that analysed the chemical content of the water:- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... If you enjoy these videos you can help support the channel with a dollar for coffee, cookies and random gadgets for disassembly at:- http://www.bigclive.com/coffee.htm This also keeps the channel independent of YouTube's advertising algorithms allowing it to be a bit more dangerous and naughty.