So, apparently, I am a Mother Earth hippie.  I’ve been using some holistic, homeopathic remedies and treatments to detoxify my body and generally help me feel better.  I’ve been in so much pain lately, that I was desperate for any sort of help.  My mom found a holistic medicine practitioner in town and we started VIBE-ing and doing some ionic detoxifying foot baths. 

Ionic detox foot baths “work” by sending a small current that goes in a circuit through the body and generates positively charged ions. The high concentration of the ion field attaches to the negatively charged toxins, neutralizing them.  The body is then able to dump the toxins through the 2,000+ pores on the bottom of your feet.

Sounds like hooha, right?  Behold. 

This is my mom’s bath water after the prescribed 30 minutes of treatment.

Here is my water after the same amount of time.

If that ain’t a cesspool full of toxic free radicals, I don’t know what is.  I really wish I had more detailed pictures; that way you could actually see the sandy deposits that sank to the bottom of the tub. 

And now I can’t get the Doobie Brother’s “Black Water” out of my head.