Do Toxins Accumulate in the Body?
Products such as foot detox pads claim to remove harmful chemicals from the body that the body itself cannot remove on its own. These products work on two premises: 1) There are toxins that just accumulate in your body and need removal, and 2) the body cannot remove them without using these products. Unfortunately, there is little truth to either of these claims.
To date, researchers have found no “toxins” that randomly accumulate in your body at dangerous levels, nor can these be removed by special diets or the applications of foot pads.
While there are indeed some chemicals that may accumulate inside your body, many of these are fat-soluble. This means that they can be stored inside fatty tissue until they reach a toxicity point. There are certain natural chemicals like vitamin E or harmful ones like PCB’s (polychlorinated biphenyls) that do accumulate in the body. But these almost never reach a point of toxicity or cause harm to the body unintentionally.
Basically, manufacturers of these products are trying to capitalize on public ignorance by creating a problem with very little scientific basis. Our bodies are not holding stores of harmful chemicals that need removal. The Federal Trade Commission of the United States has also charged some companies that manufacture detox foot pads with deceptive advertising.
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