The Enhanced Living IONIC FOOT BATH uses a combination of Iontophoresis and Galvanic stimulation. Understanding how the Enhanced Living IONIC FOOT BATH works and how it can enhance the natural function of detoxification and cellular regeneration are important to know and understand. The simple explanation is that the ionic therapy speeds up the body’s waste removal process; the body becomes more alkaline and performs as it was meant to. Below is a more scientific explanation of how the process works.

Iontophoresis is the introductions of ions (+ and – charged atoms or molecules) of soluble salts through the skin and into the body by an electric current. Galvanic stimulation uses direct current in the form of alternating currents, both positive and negative, which changes blood flow and speeds healing. Both Iontophoresis and Galvanic stimulation create a beneficial and non-evasive atmosphere for a patient’s body to accept and react to the therapeutic energies of the Enhanced Living IONIC FOOT BATH Detoxification Program. Your patient’s body will probably respond much faster to other treatments after one therapeutic session with the Enhanced Living IONIC FOOT BATH.

Ionic therapy utilizes an ionic field in which the patient places their hands or feet in water and a salt and mineral solution is added to the water to increase the energy potential and generate cellular activity. This current is a sub-threshold to muscle contraction so most patients experience only minor tingling, if anything at all. This affect can be seen in similar therapeutic devices such as micro current and cold laser therapy, which has been proven to increase cellular energy. This influx of bio-available energy created by the ionic field helps to restore the cell back to its natural frequency and homeostasis. Every cell in the body needs oxygen and glucose in order to create Adenosine Triphospate (ATP). Without this energy, the body could no longer function. You need ATP in order for the nervous system to work, for range of motion, relaxation of the muscles and to also increase muscle strength.

As ionic electrical currents penetrate quietly into a muscle’s cell through the skin’s layers “under human perception signals”, the device non-invasively stimulates the ATP level into the cells. This flow is the basis for human cells to function. Under this phenomenon, the biological chemical effects are repairing both aging and injured cells, improving circulation and metabolism. Moreover, there is an increased absorption of nutrients and transportation of waste products. It also provides reinforcement of the skin and muscle’s elasticity, relaxation of muscles, and neutralization of lactic acid produced. Ionic therapy is based on the beneficial effects of Extremely Low Frequencies (ELF) pulsed magnetic fields of biological substrates. The scientific research demonstrates that ionic fields featuring correct frequencies are able to restore the exchange of nutrients between the cell and the external environments, allowing the cell’s metabolism to reactivate. The effects of the application of the ELF ionic field are equivalent to the action of the body’s sodium potassium pump, which keeps the concentration of positive and negative ions in correct balance across the cell membrane. This guarantees the presence of the correct electric potential that is altered in many degenerative processes. The application of ELF pulsed ionic field raises the pain perception threshold, thereby stimulating the immune system, and promoting the healing of muscle and cartilage.

The body is composed of individual cells that are negatively charged inside and positively charged outside. As a result of the generally accepted ATP mechanism for cellular activity, positive ions are “pumped out” of the cell and a charge/concentration gradient is established between the cellular membrane/extra-cellular fluid and the negatively charged intracellular fluid. This concentration gradient, when functioning properly, allows for potential energy of the cell to be stored between depolarization actions. Normal excitatory stimuli to the cell results in an opening of the ion channels such that a depolarization occurs and then the process repeats to re-polarize the cell. When balance is not achieved (ratio of positive to negative ions between the outside and inside of the cell), there become either too many, or too few negative ions in the cell as compared to outside of the cell as shown below.

Muscle is an excitable tissue, meaning that it can be stimulated mechanically, chemically, or electrically to produce an action potential. An action potential is an electrical change across a cell membrane due to changes in the conduction of ions across the membrane. Nervous tissue is also an excitable tissue. Muscle cells contain a contractile mechanism that is activated by the action potential. There are 630 muscles in the human body. About 40% of the body is skeletal muscle with an additional 5-10 % for cardiac and smooth muscle. Yet the nervous system requires 60% of all the glucose that the body produces. A living person in its most simple form is primarily an electro-chemically driven organism that is also further influenced by resulting magnetic fields.

These magnetic fields are always created as a consequence of electrical current no matter how large or small. The combination of electricity and magnetic energy is known as the ionic field theory. This exists in all aspects of nature and can be further reduced to negatively and positively charged ions. Ionic tendency is toward balance as evidenced by covalent bonds as opposed to unbound ions. A general example of a covalent bond is Sodium Chloride (NaCl) whereby a single molecule of positively charged sodium has an affinity for a single molecule of negatively charged Chloride. By definition, an unbound ion within the body is a free radical. Most free radicals are positively charged and looking to attract a negative counterpart. Providing an oppositely charged ion therefore resulting in a covalent compound can therefore best neutralize free radicals.

Forces are acting between the metals in the array that are the result of an electrostatic field that exists around each charged particle or object. This electrostatic field, and the force it creates, can be illustrated with lines called “lines of force” as shown below.

Electrostatic-Field

Charged objects repel or attract each other because of the way these fields act together. This force is present with every charged object. When two objects of opposite charge are brought near one another, the electrostatic field is concentrated in the area between them, as shown below. The direction of the small arrows shows the direction of the force, as it would act upon an electron if it were released into the electric field.

Electrostatic Field Between Two Charges of Opposite Polarity

When two objects of like charge are brought near one another, the lines of force repel each other, as shown in figure below.

Electrostatic Field between Two Charges of Like Polarity

The strength of the attraction or of the repulsion force depends upon two factors: (1) the amount of charge on each object, and (2) the distance between the objects. The greater the charge on the objects, the greater the electrostatic field. The greater the distance between the objects, the weaker the electrostatic field between them, and vice versa. This leads us to the law of electrostatic attraction, commonly referred to as Coulomb’s Law of Electrostatic Charges, which states that the force of electrostatic attraction, or repulsion, is directly proportional to the product of the two charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them as shown in equation 1-1.

If q1 and q2 are both either positively or negatively charged, the force is repulsive. If q1 and q2 are opposite polarity or charge, the force is attractive.

Potential Difference

Potential difference is the term used to describe how large the electrostatic force is between two charged objects. If an electron is placed between a negatively charged body and a positively charged body, the action due to the potential difference is to push the electron toward the positively charged object. The electron, being negatively charged, will be repelled from the negatively-charged object and attracted by the positively-charged object, as shown above.

This ability to do work is called “potential”; therefore, if one charge is different from another, there is a potential difference between them. The sum of the potential differences of all charged particles in the electrostatic field is referred to as electromotive force (EMF). Due to the force of its electrostatic field, these electrical charges have the ability to do work by moving another charged particle by attraction and/or repulsion. (This process then creates a stable [no charge] state.)

After reading this information, you should have a better understanding of the benefits of the Enhanced Living IONIC FOOT BATH and how it interacts with a patient’s body to speed-up the natural detoxification processes and cellular regeneration.

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