Cleaning Up CES 2008 With an Ion Cleanse

Day four of CES feels like day 400. So I stopped by Alimtox Ion Cell Cleanse for a bit of high-tech healing. At this very moment, I've got my aching feet stuck in a basin of water. This guy who calls himself Dr. Doug just plunged an array into the basin.

After a 30-minute foot soak, you've detoxed your body. Based on the color of the water, you've cleansed yourself of a variety of toxins and troubles. If there's a brown tinge to the water, you've got Vegas problems: tobacco smoke, liver toxins, and cellular debris. If there are brown flecks in the water, you've got heavy metals. White cheesy particles mean yeast, and so on. I'm doing my soak with five others who are all ankle deep in water. Each one of us has different colored water now filled with the toxins that have oozed from our body.

According to the folks at Alimtox, the ionization process involves splitting water molecules so that you've got 2H20 instead of H2O. By using reverse-osmosis, the toxins are expelled though your feet. Since most diseases are caused by toxic build-up in the body, the reverse osmosis literally pulls the toxins from your body.

The woman sitting next to me has joint problems. Dr. Doug called it because of her orange-tinged water. My water was positively brackish, which means, well… it means that it's time to get out of town.

The Alimtox is not inexpensive. It normally retails for $2,100, but here at CES its folks are targeting the health care provider. But for Yahoo! readers at CES they're going to sell it for $1,499. They suggest using the Ion Cleanse at least twice a week. Hopes are that beauty parlors, spas, and other service industry businesses will embrace the new technology.

Me, I'm not sure whether it was enough to sit down for 30 minutes with my feet in a bucket or whether I'm really feeling detoxified, but the show seems a lot more manageable now. (Check out the precautions and contraindications before you plunk down your money.)