The harmful positive ion (kation) is a particle that loses an electron. The healthful negative ion (anion) gains an electron in the valency orbit; that is it increases the ability to absorb and utilize oxygen and reduces any excess of harmful serotonin.

These two small invisible electrified particles have an effect on our physical and mental well-being and we are constantly bombarded with negative and positive ions (eg. polluted air). The negative ions make us feel good, they destroy harmful bacteria. The positive ions make us feel bad (TV. screen produces positive ions).

If the positive ions occur naturally in sufficient numbers, for instance during the onset of the commonly known hot and dry desert winds, the winds cause depression, nausea, insomnia, irritability, lassitude, migraine, asthma attacks, and also affect the normal function of the thyroid glands. Biochemically speaking, the body becomes exhausted and this can lead to an increase in accidents, violent crime and suicides. These can be counteracted with the beneficial negative ions.

Negative Ions are the good ions. Positive ions are depleting. You want negative ions NOT positive ions. The units on the market that claim their machine can create more negative ions or positive ions depending on which mode the unit is set too is not only inaccurate but why would you want positive ions?

To read further click here

Negative Ion Report: The CBS Nightly News, Feb 14, 1995

How to Buy a Detox Foot Bath

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Are you confused as to where to even begin on HOW TO SHOP for the best Detox Foot Bath? Well you and thousands of others.. Who wouldn’t with so many detox foot spa manufacturers ranging from $100 to $3000. After reading this you will be better prepared to make an informed decision.

Steps

1. WHAT QUESTIONS SHOULD I BE ASKING WHEN SHOPPING FOR A DETOX SPA FOOT BATH?
2. 1. How high does the Amperage go to? (what is this? refer to the source listed below for Key Concepts for more info) Answer: at least 3.0 Amp
3. 2. What is the Wattage? (what is this? refer to the source listed below for Key Concepts for more info) Answer: ideally 150 watts
4. 3. Can you control the amperage by the current or is it only controlled by adding salt to the ioncleanse foot bath water? (what is this? refer to the source listed below for Key Concepts for more info) Answer: amperage should be controlled by current not salt
5. 4. What is the frequency/Hertz the power unit is running at? (what is this? refer to the source listed below for Key Concepts for more info) Answer: a frequency that is healthy to the body, do not want 60 Hz
6. 5. Is the power unit running at single polarity or dual? (what is this? refer to the source listed below for Key Concepts for more info) Answer: single
7. 6. What protection mechanisms does the power unit offer? (what is this? refer to the source listed below for Key Concepts for more info)
8. 7. Is the power unit built in to the ion spa foot bath tub or is it separate? Answer: separate so you can use in any type of tub .. even a bath tub
9. 8. Is the detox foot bath tub made of plastic or a conductive material? (what is this? refer to the source listed below for Key Concepts for more info) Answer: conductive material such as copper, plastic has no conductive components
10. 9. If the water module is using a copper plate, is it 100% pure copper or does it have beryllium in it? (what is this? refer to the source listed below for Key Concepts for more info) Answer: 100% pure copper, beryllium is a carcinogen
11. 10. Is the water module disposable, or do you have to replace the plates manually? how many baths do you get out of the water module? (what is this? refer to the source listed below for Key Concepts for more info)
12. 11. Is the water module built in to the footbath tub or is it separate? Answer: separate so you can use in any type of tub .. even a bath tub
13. 12. How is the water module cleaned and how do they disinfect it? Answer: you want to have access to the plates to remove the mineral and toxin build up.. hospital grade disinfectant is necessary.
14. 13. Does the unit require a wristband connection to the body in order for the ion spa foot bath to run? (what is this? refer to the source listed below for Key Concepts for more info) Answer: do not want wristband. The machine is not safe and is not grounded. The wristband is to ground the person.
15. 14. What salt is used: high quality with trace minerals or processed salt? (what is this? refer to the source listed below for Key Concepts for more info) Answer: a high quality salt

Tips

• COPPER Tub vs. PLASTIC Tub: Get the copper tub since the copper acts as an additional conductor thereby making the treatment all that more powerful. Also you will get more life out of the water module due to the conductivity of the copper there by less current is ran from the unit to achieve the same AMPs. Copper also resonates a certain healing frequency. People wear copper on their body for healing. Plastic has no conductivity.
• Choose a higher quality SALT .. Such as the Himalayan Crystal Salt because of its balanced crystalline structure, which can be easily metabolized by the body. Regular Table Salt is processed & has lost its natural crystalline structure. With EPSON Salt there is less heavy metal in the brine when using epson salts vs the Himalayan salts.
• Get a unit that you can control the CURRENT and where the AMPS can at least go to 3.00 Amps. Most of the units out in the market operate only as high as 1.4 to 2.5 AMPS. A good unit is the OPTIMUM Focus detox footbath since you can control the current and the Amps go as high as 5.5. The higher the Amps then the higher the volume of electrons moving thru the water bombarding the H20 water molecules there by more ions are being produced.

Warnings

• DO NOT USE A DETOX FOOT SPA WITH A WRIST BAND!! WHY?
• A wristband is simply used to ground the body since the unit is so cheaply made the unit itself is not grounded. This is a marketing gimmick when the say it is ‘to complete the circuitry’ or ‘stimulate the upper body’.
• The wrist bands are designed to prevent the destruction of CMOS devices. (CMOS is the deposition of doping and etching of a Metal Oxide on Saphire device, in short an Integrated Circuit). Most units on the market use TR (Transformer Rectifier) concepts in producing their output, this concept does not utilize CMOS substrate devices. We often build static as we walk and move, this is more pronounced if we are wearing anything nylon. The wrist band is conductive and conducts the static electricity from the body to ground. This prevents the charge from going through the CMOS device. If a charge goes through a CMOS integrated circuit, it can destroy it instantly, most often it damages it which causes a diminishing deterioration until the ultimate failure. During the “slow death” of the device performance becomes unreliable, unrepeatable then ultimately the device fails.
• The ground strap is a marketing gimmick. Think about it, your computers and cell phones have large scale integration in their operating systems and you do not wear a ground strap when working with either of them. Why would you need grounding for something as simplistic as the power supplies in a footbath? The control circuitry may have some active devices that can be damages as we do, but with proper configuration this can be protected
• The wristband has nothing to do with the detox foot bath process. The key to the ionic detox footbath is the ions from the salt & water that are interacting with your body, not the current or so called ‘circuitry’ that these companies claim. You DO NOT want to USE WRISTBANDS since a good unit should have a chassis ground for all internal assemblies to stop any voltage potential ever being on the case.

Sources and Citations

• TO LEARN more about KEY CONCEPTS OF Detox Foot Baths (http://www.hymbas.com/detoxfootbath/FocusFootbath_FAQWhyUs.html)
• An excellent SOURCE for Detox Spa Foot bath BUYERS GUIDE, TIPS, Testimonials, Questions or even Post a Question.. Refer to http://www.hymbas.com/blog

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What is Amps? Amps is the ‘volume’ of electrons. Think of a waterfall,  the wider the water fall the more volume of water. There are several ways you can increase the volume of electrons in the footbath. One is by adding salt which is a conductive material. Another by adding more current. We also use a copper footbath tub which is a conductive material again increasing the Amps. Anything that is conductive allows more electrons to move thru the water. The electrons bombard the H2O molecule breaking it up in to ions. The higher the Amps the more electrons therefor more ions.

Other units don’t allow you to control Current. They run a straight 24 volt current thru and only allow you to increase the Amps by adding salt. Well what happens if you want to decrease the Amps? You can not take the salt out of the water so you will either have to dump the foot bath water and start over or add more water to dilute it which defeats the whole purpose of osmosis. The OPTIMUM units allow you to control the Current there by allowing you to have full control over the Amps (increasing or decreasing). Using Salt to increase your Amps is the cheap way to do it. Even the more expensive units like AMD Ioncleanse doesn’t allow you to control the Current.

Most of the units out in the market operate only as high as 1.4 to 2.5 AMPS. OPTIMUM standard models run as high as 3.00 AMPS & our new OPTIMUM ES8000i Professional runs as high as 5.5 AMPS. OPTIMUM detox foot spa units are the most powerful & safest machines on the market.

A wristband is simply used to ground the body since the unit is so cheaply made the unit itself is not grounded. This is a marketing gimmick when the say it is ‘to complete the circuitry’ or ‘stimulate the upper body’.

The wrist bands are designed to prevent the destruction of CMOS devices.  (CMOS is the deposition of doping and etching of a Metal Oxide on Saphire device, in short an Integrated Circuit).  Most units on the market use TR (Transformer Rectifier) concepts in producing their output, this concept does not utilize CMOS substrate devices. We often build static as we walk and move, this is more pronounced if we are wearing anything nylon.  The wrist band is conductive and conducts the static electricity from the body to ground.  This prevents the charge from going through the CMOS device.  If a charge goes through a CMOS integrated circuit, it can destroy it instantly, most often it damages it which causes a diminishing deterioration until the ultimate failure.  During the “slow death” of the device performance becomes unreliable, unrepeatable then ultimately the device fails.

The conductive wristbands may or may not require any liquid or gel to add to the conductivity of the band to ground.  This depends on the quality of the grounding strap and the wristband.

Most circuit designers “know their stuff” and design the circuits such that the input and output pins of the integrated circuits are connected into circuitry such that they are buffered from outside forces.  Our units have the proper buffering so that stray voltages cannot and do not reach the components that can be affected by static.  In addition the care of our unit is electrically connected to earth ground, this will direct any stray charge that even gets to the case to ground and protect the components as well.

The ground strap is a marketing gimmick.  Think about it, your computers and cell phones have large scale integration in their operating systems and you do not wear a ground strap when working with either of them.  Why would you need grounding for something as simplistic as the power supplies in a footbath?  The control circuitry may have some active devices that can be damages as we do, but with proper configuration this can be protected

The wristband has nothing to do with the footbath process. The key to the ionic detox footbath is the ions from the salt & water that are interacting with your body, not the current or so called ‘circuitry’ that these companies claim. WE (Optimum detox foot baths) DO NOT USE WRISTBANDS since our unit has a chassis ground for all internal assemblies to stop any voltage potential ever being on the case

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Dual Polarity, or reversible polarity, machine is just the reversing of polarity. Dual Polarity is a marketing gimmick and provides no benefit. This is why:

1. FALSE CLAIM: Systems that use Dual Polarity claim that switching Polarity (in another words which way the DC current flows) to create more Negative Ions or Positive Ions (Negative polarity to Positive Polarity & then Positive Polarity to Negative Polarity). REASON FALSE: DC Current only can go from Negative to Positive polarityNEVER can it go from Positive to Negative as the companies that use Dual Polarity claim. Moving current from a positive to negative goes against the law of physics for DC current (click here more details).
2. FALSE CLAIM: Systems that use Dual Polarity claim that Negative Ions & Positive Ions are needed depending on the bodies PH level.REASON FALSE: Negative Ions are the good ions. Positive Ions are the depleting ions, free radicals (refer below about the difference click here). Why would you ever want positive ions?
3. By reversing polarity, the plated material on the anode gets released back in to the water (explained further below) from the current footbath & previous footbaths. Obviously this is not a good thing.
4. FALSE CLAIM: Systems that use Dual Polarity claim that their systems change the PH level of the water depending on the supposed Polarity. REASON FALSE: The only way the PH level can be altered is if the ionized water is extracted either at the Anode orCathode rings where the H2O has split is extracted in to H+ (acidic water) or OH- (alkaline water).

EXPLANATION Why DUAL Polarity is a hoax:

1. To further explain how this works you must first understand how DC(direct current) current works

DC CURRENT: ALL Footbath electrolysis units on the market are using DC current. They either run from an AC input or a battery input (a battery is DC). This is necessary to create the electrolysis process. Direct current or DC electricity is the continuous movement of electrons from negative to positive through a conducting material such as a metal wire or in the case of the footbath it is the water. A DC circuit is necessary to allow the current or steam of electrons to flow. The current ALWAYS flows from the negative (Cathode ring) to the positive (Anode ring) through the water. When the electrons move from the Cathode ring to the Anode ring it causes the Cathode ring to deplete and then binds with molecules in the water and then moves to the Anode ring creating a plating on the Anode ring (refer to our research page showing the scrapings of the Anode ring click here). When a machine switches polarity ALL THEY ARE DOING is changing which plates receive the positive and the negative. The current STILL flows from Negative to Positive. Remember the Cathode ring depletes the metal & the Anode ring attracts where a build up occurs, so when the Anode ring switches to receiving the negative, making it now the Cathode ring, it then releases all the build-up back in to the water. Not only are you releasing the toxins back in to the water but it gains NO BENEFIT.  (click here for outside source)

False misleading statement by other companies state (i.e. AMD IONCLEANSE) when the unit is supposedly in ‘positive’ mode: “When the unit is in positive mode, the current flows to the positive pole in the array, which results in more negative ions being produced in the water. When it is set on negative mode, the current flows to the negative pole in the array, which results in more positive ions being produced in the water. Therefore, negative polarity generates a positive ion flow. This process is known as the electrolysis of water.”

** THIS IS FALSE: A DC current cannot move from positive to negative pole as stated in the negative mode. (explained above)

2. You must also understand how Water electrolysis works:

WATER ELECTROLYSIS is the process by which water is broken down into hydrogen and oxygen in the presence of a direct electric current and an electrolyte (NACL salt). Electrolysis of water is what’s called a redox reaction. This means that electrons are being moved from one molecule to another. To electrolyze water, you need 2 electrodes, the cathode (negative) and the anode (positive). This would be the water module of the footbath unit. You also need to dissolve ions in the water to improve its conductivity; sodium chloride (salt) is often used as in the case of the footbath.

At the anode, electrons are removed from the water and it is oxidized, in this reaction:

2H₂O —–> O₂ + 4H⁺ + 4e^-

At the cathode, electrons are added to water and it is reduced:

2H₂O + 4e^- —–> 2H₂ + 4OH^-

So at the anode we get oxygen gas and hydrogen ions, at the cathode hydrogen gas and hydroxide ions.

Other products can be formed depending on what the electrodes are made from and how the electrolysis chamber is built. If the cathode is made from iron, it will react with the hydroxide ions to make brown, insoluble iron hydroxide:

Fe³⁺ + 3OH^- —–> Fe(OH)₃

Chlorine gas can be formed, but this isn’t because the electrodes are made of carbon. It will only happen if sodium chloride is added to the water. In this case, the chloride ions in the water can oxidise to chlorine and combine with hydroxide ions to form hypochlorite:

Cl₂ + 2OH^- —–> Cl^- + OCl^- + H₂O

False misleading statement by other companies that use the DUAL Polarity claim that their machines can create more positive ions or negative ions depending on what mode the machine is in (positive or negative). This is a false statement. The current coming from the water module acts as a stimulus or Optimizer to break up the H2O (water) and the NACL (salt). Current will always flow the same way, meaning only from negative to positive (as stated above), so the breakup of the water molecule & salt will be exactly the same. The molecule makeup of the H2O and the NACL is what determines how many negative ions and positive ions are being produced NOT THE CURRENT (measured in e-). Just by adding salt this creates about a 2 to 1 ratio of negative ions (just like the ocean).

An example of this false statement is stated on AMD IONCLEANSE webpage. They state that depending on what ‘supposed’ mode (positive/negative) their unit is set to, affects differently the combination of Hydrogen & Oxygen gas release. They say it breaks down in:

FALSE:

POSITIVE MODE: 4H2O + 4e- à  2H2 + 4OH-          OR

NEGATIVE MODE:  2H2O à O2 + 4H+ + 4e-.

This is a false statement because as you can see above where we explain how really ‘water electrolysis‘ works, the electrolysis creates at the anode water is oxidized (2H₂O —–> O₂ + 4H⁺ + 4e^-) and at the cathode water is reduced: (2H₂O + 4e^- —–> 2H₂ + 4OH^- )

END RESULT OF ALL FOOTBATH ELECTROLYSIS PROCESS: The overall effect from the footbath electrolysiswill always breakdown in to 2H_2 0 =  2H_2 + O_2 (detailsclick here from American Chemical Society).

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Hi Diann:

I recently sprained both my ankles at the same time.  The left one was sprained really bad with the muscle on the outside of my leg extremely sensitive as it was pulled really bad as a result of the sprain.  Two days after the sprain I used my Optimum detox foot bath and after the 20 minutes was done I could actually touch the muscle that was extremely sensitive.

Sincerely,

Anna Dekeyan

It has been stated by various companies that the water colors relate to different organ cellular waste and other body parts. We do not support this analysis of water. There is no scientific data supporting this analysis & some colors can appear without a body. Not all impurities can be seen with the naked eye just as you cannot see the impurities in water. In order to prove that this process does pull out impurities, we have preformed control tests (click here for test results) showing that heavy metals exist in the water after the 35 minute bath & also encapsulated on the water modules’ rings. When water samples are tested by labs we need to specify what to test for & since the range of impurities a body may contain are too many to specify, we decided to focu on heavy metals. At minimum this proved that particles are moving out of the body.

More important than the color change is an oily substance on the surface thereby indicating energy being produced (called EMASS by researchers) and the change in color of the urine caused by the release of toxins & stimulation & elimination of the lymphatic system.

With different water conditions your OPTIMUM Focus unit will not necessarily cause color changes in the water; however, the very process of electrolysis of the water causes color changes in the water.. this is called oxidation (which is mainly the orange color, not joints as what is stated in the color charts).  The interaction of the OPTIMUM FOCUS water module with the City added chemicals can cause quite a discoloration in the water.  It must neutralize those chemicals and energize the water.  Some sediment is seen depending upon the amounts of solids that are inherent in water to begin with.  The final result has to do with the health of the person being treated.  This will then determine the water color change.

Diann: One of my client’s testimonials

“Dear Brandy,

You may quote me on this: since receiving the ionizing footbaths with you Brandy, I have had the following results. 1) Diminishing of eczema on the bottom of my feet that I had for 18 years to now no peeling of skin at all! 2) disappearance of problematic athlete’s foot between a couple of toes that used to come and go for many years 3) Reduction of fatty deposits around an area I had foot surgery in over 16 years ago 4) Overall feeling of being more energetic than I have in two years  5) Reduction of a bunion to almost nothing and my shoes fit better. 6) I am thrilled on a psychological/mental/spiritual level in that I am mending fences from decades ago – each week a new adventure – is it the peeling away of the metaphorical onion skin you may ask? I don’t know – I just know that the footbaths are the only new treatment I added to the equation that is my life.  Thanks to you Brandy!

Love and peace,

Sybil”

Bandy Rosenberg
Professional Intuitive Consultant
Www.brandyrosenberg.com

Hello,

I just thought to send you a note and follow up on our first month’s experience of offering the Focus Footbath to out clients. As you are aware, we currently house some of the finest state-of-the-art healing technologies all under the same roof. Nobody else in the US is doing what we are doing.  Client’s come to us with various illness’ and disorders. I have a client who was diagnosed with serious mold poisoning. She had tried every remedy both western and holistic. Nothing had worked. She came to seek out our technologies and I must admit nothing helped her….until the footbath.  With her first bath she noticed an immediate shift in her body. Though she could not pin point it she new it was a positive. I recommended the 14 session deep cleanse which she did and by the end she felt like she was reborn (her words)!  I must admit I too was surprised.  In addition, the odor from her water was incredibly putrid. I had to put on a dust mask to clean after each session!  The irony of this all is that we have over $150,000 worth of equipment here and the $1500 footbath is bringing in all the business! I am seeing positive results daily with our clients too numerous to mention.  It’s getting really exciting.   Thank for forcing me to do a footbath myself!

Manager, Regenesis Energy Center