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Hydro Ionic Reverse Adsorption (HIRA)
HIRA sessions is prehaps one of the most effective while least traumatic forms of detoxing there is. What is it and what does it do? The following is information by a healthcare professional that effectively addresses these and other questions.
Ionic Detoxification Baths by Sandra Talt, D.C.
Put simply, you feel great, sleep better, have more energy and an improved outlook on life. Ionic detoxification baths are a pleasant, non-invasive way for most people to detoxify the body. A computer program runs varying amounts of positive or negative current through a water bath. All you do is put your feet into the water and relax for 20 to 30 minutes. While you are relaxing, the water will start to change color, and in a short while, you will see sediment accumulating. Believe it or not, this sediment and discoloration is coming out of your body! How is it so? The negative and positive ions attract toxins, and pull them out of you via osmosis. That is, when the water has a higher negative charge than your body tissues, positive ions will be pulled out of you and into the water. This is good, because heavy metal toxins have a positive charge, and this is a very effective way of cleansing yourself from heavy metal and other toxins. After a few minutes, the polarity switches to positive, and negatively charged toxins will be pulled from your body.
Different people produce different colors and sediments. With repeated treatments, you will see different colors and sediments coming from yourself. Sometimes an oily residue also appears on the water. The benefits of this type of footbath include detoxification, stimulation and balancing of the body’s energy meridians, and increased cellular metabolic rates and ATP production. ATP is a natural body chemical that extracts energy from your food and makes it available for numerous physiologic functions in the body. Put simply, you feel great, sleep better, have more energy and an improved outlook on life. In addition, aches, pains, and other conditions may be greatly alleviated. If you see the sludge that this treatment produces, you will have no doubt about the effectiveness of this modality! Certainly, some color and sedimentation appears in the water without a person’s feet in the footbath. However, comparisons show there is a remarkable difference in the colors and sediments seen in the water after treatment of just water, and water and feet! To learn more, visit Energy Balance Resources to view comparison lab testing.
You can have your sediment tested locally by:
SGS Labs200 W. Potter Dr.
Anchorage, AK, 99518
1-907-562-2343 Map Directions
They can test for metals, petroleum-based substances, and volatiles such as benzene, toululene and xylene. One sample I had tested validated that there was a high amount of lead in the footbath water after the detox footbath. This was important to the client because he had worked at Red Dog Mine, and had high exposure to lead and zinc. Other testing options are before and after hair analysis and blood testing, to track changes in your toxin levels. Ionic baths are contra-indicated for people with pacemakers or other electrical devices implanted in the body, people with transplants or on medications that regulate heart rate, or leave you at serious risk if the blood level of the medication drops due to detoxification. This might include medication for seizures, psychotropic drugs, and others. If you are pregnant or lactating, I believe it is best to forego serious detoxification, including ionic baths, since any form of detoxification will leave some toxins stirred up in your body, and toxins can cross the placenta and harm a developing baby, and cross into breast milk. People who are in weakened condition may need to use shorter time in the footbath.
Most people who try the ionic detox baths feel better. Why not try it for yourself!
*** See an example of HIRA Session Results***
Detoxification Demystified by Sandra Talt, D.C.
It is important to understand that detoxification involves two parts:
- loosening toxins from the body’s tissues
- expelling toxins from the body.
If you accomplish part one (loosening toxins from your body’s tissues) without accomplishing part two (expelling those toxins from your body), you are prone to cleansing reactions. This means that you may feel sick or tired when following a detoxification regimen. It is unfortunate some people then think that the detoxification has made them sick or tired, concluding that detoxification is bad. However, this simply isn’t so. Rather, these sick and tired people did not succeed in detoxification – they only rearranged where the toxins were staying.
Different products and regimens target different aspects of an overall detoxification program. It is wise to choose a program that accomplishes both steps mentioned above, loosening toxins and expelling toxins.
Part I: Loosening Toxins
Many excellent detoxification products accomplish the first step of loosening toxins from the body’s tissues. This category includes lemon juice with maple and cayenne; Calli tea; ginger; chlorophyll; juice fasts; vegetable fasts; apple cider vinegar; homeopathic remedies for detoxification, and many others that are readily available through books found at your favorite local health food store. I also include massage and lymph brushing and chelation (a process that uses a chemical to pulls heavy metals from the bloodstream) in this classification, since they loosen toxins, but don’t expel toxins.
Part II: Expelling Toxins
Now that you have stirred up the toxins from where they were living with one of these cleanses, you have to get the toxins out of your body. This brings us to the important part of expelling toxins from the body. Therapies in this category include colonics; enemas; ioncleanses; saunas; and the use of bentanite, activated charcoal, psyllium or other bulking and roughage products.
(A further word on bentanite, activated charcoal and psyllium and other roughage products: Bentanite and charcoal work by capturing toxins in your intestinal tract, and carrying the toxins out in your stools. Psyllium and roughage agents absorb water in the bowel, giving the bowel more bulk and moisture to work with, thus increasing the action of the bowels. You must drink more water than usual when using any of these, so that your bowels can continue to work smoothly without getting constipated. Combining increased roughage with bentanite or charcoal to increase absorption of toxins gives you the best of both worlds for bowel action.)
They Really, Truly, Work Best Together!
Obviously, part two therapies will be able to expel more toxins, if you also use a part one treatment to first loosen toxins from your body’s tissues. Conversely, toxins loosened from your body’s tissues can actually be expelled, if you do some type of part two therapy. However, they really, truly, work best together! Yet so many people are confused about the two parts of detoxification that they select a detoxification treatment that only provides one part and then wonder why it isn’t as wonderful as they have heard.
A Quick Primer
Can you name the four primary organs or systems in your body that expel toxins, without reading the next line?
The answer is: bowels, urinary tract, lungs and skin. (We might note that the liver detoxifies the bloodstream, though it doesn’t expel toxins from the body.)
We’ve already looked at the bowels as an organ system for detoxification. The urinary tract is also clearly for detoxification, and this is why most detoxification products urge you to drink more water, since both the bowels and urinary tract need water to expel toxins.
When listing the four systems that eliminate toxins from the body, a lot of folks overlook the lungs and skin. But both the lungs and skin throw off many of our bodily toxins. It’s important to see that exercise helps detoxification not only by stimulating the urinary tract and bowels, but also by increasing breathing and sweating. Saunas make the list for expelling toxins because saunas make us sweat, thus, using the skin to detoxify.
Look for the Warning Signs
If your body is overloaded by more toxins than your bowels, urinary tract, lungs and skin can dispose of, you will see more skin eruptions, mucous from your nose, and crusty or gooey stuff in your eyes in the morning. You will have worse breath and perspiration odors. These are some signs from your body that it is time to get going and detoxify.
A good detoxification regimen will pay off for you with many physical benefits, such as a stronger immune system, better digestion, better skin and more energy. Emotionally, you will be less irritable. Spiritual benefits have long been recognized also. The benefits go on and on. Why not give detoxification a try?
Foot Detox interpretation
| Color or Particle | Material or Area of the Body |
|---|---|
| Yellow-green |
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| Orange | Joints |
| Brown |
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| Black |
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| Dark green | GallBladder |
| White Foam | Lymph Mucos |
| White Cheese Particles | Yeast |
| Black Flecks | Heavy Metals |
| Red Flecks | Blood Clot Material |
*NOTE: If using a water softener water you will need to add an equal amount of distilled or reverse osmosis water for these unit to operate properly.
*** See an example of HIRA Session Results***
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