# Japanese Detox Foot Pads **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 31, 2007, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-detox-foot-pads/431840 "2007-12-31T21:50:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-detox-foot-pads/431840/41 "2008-01-13T03:53:58Z")
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.] [They still do](http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2003/05/sars.shtm). [/QUOTE] Well, they DID as recently as 2003, the date of the linked article. But just flip through the channels if you think they still do. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-detox-foot-pads/431840/42 "2008-01-13T06:17:38Z")
[QUOTE=Jurph] I had proposed this… but most reflexology charts show that the liver is only linked to one of your feet. So if you get Foot A clean, but then Foot B comes out dirty, a reflexologist could claim that Foot A was only getting toxins from the A Side of your body. It’s bogus, but that’s a reasonable claim within the framework of their b.s. [/QUOTE] Okay, then I propose you have someone use the pads until they are ‘clean’ THEN while still continuing to wear the pads, they should purposefully ingest some of the ‘toxins’ that it claims to remove (lead maybe), the pads should become dirty soon after, does that work? ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-detox-foot-pads/431840/43 "2008-01-13T06:58:51Z")
Yeah but if you’ve got heavy metal in your body/blood/whatever, wouldn’t gravity pull the heavy metal to the lowest point of your body? In other words, your feet unless you walk on your hands all day or drag your knuckles so they are just as low as your feet. So it makes sense that the heavy metals would sort of congregate in your feet and then if you put magnetic pads on your feet, the heavy metals would be pulled out, wouldn’t they? You guys shouldn’t be so skeptical; surely they wouldn’t try to sell these things unless they did work, now would they? How can you not trust that guy who touts these things? He looks honest. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-detox-foot-pads/431840/44 "2008-01-13T07:05:16Z")
If they really want to sell a ton of them, they need Billy Mays. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-detox-foot-pads/431840/45 "2008-01-13T07:29:49Z")
Why? Does he have really toxic feet? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-detox-foot-pads/431840/46 "2008-01-13T15:08:31Z")
I think you’ll find, as the FTC did with those silly electric impulse devices that you connect to your stomach that were supposed to give you rock-hard abs while you sat on the couch watching TV, that it takes time. Someone comes out with a Miracle Product. People buy Miracle Product. Miracle Product doesn’t work. Consumers complain. FTC investigates. Naughty, naughty, makers of Miracle Product. You are not allowed to sell it anymore. I’m sure these silly things will get banned eventually (or at least, the makers will have to put all sorts of disclaimers, like Foot Pads do absolutely nothing except transfer money from your wallet to ours) but until then, use common sense. I also like this site, although right now the Foot Pads have four out of five star reviews. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-detox-foot-pads/431840/47 "2008-01-13T20:07:14Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] I think you’ll find, as the FTC did with those silly electric impulse devices that you connect to your stomach that were supposed to give you rock-hard abs while you sat on the couch watching TV, that it takes time. Someone comes out with a Miracle Product. People buy Miracle Product. Miracle Product doesn’t work. Consumers complain. FTC investigates. Naughty, naughty, makers of Miracle Product. You are not allowed to sell it anymore. I’m sure these silly things will get banned eventually (or at least, the makers will have to put all sorts of disclaimers, like Foot Pads do absolutely nothing except transfer money from your wallet to ours) but until then, use common sense. I also like this site, although right now the Foot Pads have four out of five star reviews. :rolleyes: [/QUOTE] But some entrepreneurs get away with murder by not claiming any benefit to using the product. The television ads for Enzyte (the ‘male enhancement product’) and Head-On (and it’s friend Activ-On) say nothing about what the product is supposed to do for the consumer. Naive viewers may assume that taking Enzyte will increase the size of their penis, or that Head-On will provide relief from a headache, but nothing in the TV ads promises this and nothing could be further from the truth. Enzyte’s website claims: “Taken once a day, Enzyte supports the strongest, most powerful erections possible to help you achieve peak sexual enhancement.” But I got some DVDs that will do that too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-detox-foot-pads/431840.md?page=2)