https://baddetox.com/ A sceptical look at the wellness industry — detoxes, supplements, diets and devices, measured against what the evidence actually supports. en © 2026 Plain Evidence Media Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://baddetox.com/detox/what-your-liver-is-doing-while-you-drink-the-tea/ https://baddetox.com/detox/what-your-liver-is-doing-while-you-drink-the-tea/ The organ a cleanse claims to support runs a two-stage chemical process every hour of your life. Knowing how that process works makes most detox claims collapse without any argument. Detox Claims Aniket Zende Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://baddetox.com/detox/the-toxin-that-never-gets-named/ https://baddetox.com/detox/the-toxin-that-never-gets-named/ Detox marketing depends on a noun that is never specified, measured or defined. That vagueness is not laziness, it is the product. Detox Claims Aniket Zende Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://baddetox.com/detox/why-a-juice-cleanse-makes-you-feel-different/ https://baddetox.com/detox/why-a-juice-cleanse-makes-you-feel-different/ Something genuinely happens during a juice-only week, and none of it is detoxification. The effects are well understood and mostly explained by calories, water and caffeine. Detox Claims Aniket Zende Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://baddetox.com/detox/the-laxative-hiding-on-a-detox-tea-ingredients-list/ https://baddetox.com/detox/the-laxative-hiding-on-a-detox-tea-ingredients-list/ Many teas sold for cleansing contain a stimulant laxative, which is why they appear to work. That ingredient is also where the genuine risk in this category lives. Detox Claims Hina Mirza Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://baddetox.com/detox/the-ionic-footbath-and-the-rust-that-colours-the-water/ https://baddetox.com/detox/the-ionic-footbath-and-the-rust-that-colours-the-water/ The brown water is real, dramatic and completely explained. It comes from the machine rather than from your feet, and you can prove it in ten minutes. Detox Claims Hina Mirza Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://baddetox.com/detox/detox-foot-pads-also-turn-brown-in-a-glass-of-water/ https://baddetox.com/detox/detox-foot-pads-also-turn-brown-in-a-glass-of-water/ The dark patch on the pad each morning is presented as extracted waste. It is a colour change driven by moisture, and it happens without any feet involved. Detox Claims Hina Mirza Sat, 25 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://baddetox.com/detox/coffee-enemas-where-unproven-stops-and-dangerous-starts/ https://baddetox.com/detox/coffee-enemas-where-unproven-stops-and-dangerous-starts/ Most wellness products in this category waste money and nothing more. This one is different, and the difference is worth stating plainly. Detox Claims Hina Mirza Thu, 23 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://baddetox.com/detox/your-kidneys-are-not-waiting-for-help-flushing-anything/ https://baddetox.com/detox/your-kidneys-are-not-waiting-for-help-flushing-anything/ Kidney flush products sell assistance to an organ that filters your entire blood volume repeatedly every day. The claim survives because most people have no idea how the filtering works. Detox Claims Hina Mirza Sun, 19 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://baddetox.com/detox/cleanses-that-work-by-emptying-your-bowel/ https://baddetox.com/detox/cleanses-that-work-by-emptying-your-bowel/ Colon cleansing sells the removal of accumulated residue that has never been shown to exist. What comes out is often the product itself. Detox Claims Aniket Zende Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://baddetox.com/detox/sweat-is-mostly-water-and-that-matters-for-the-claim/ https://baddetox.com/detox/sweat-is-mostly-water-and-that-matters-for-the-claim/ Sweating out toxins is one of the most repeated ideas in wellness. The composition of sweat and the job it evolved to do both argue against it. Detox Claims Aniket Zende Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://baddetox.com/detox/alkaline-water-stomach-acid-and-the-ph-of-your-blood/ https://baddetox.com/detox/alkaline-water-stomach-acid-and-the-ph-of-your-blood/ The alkaline water pitch requires blood pH to be something you can shift with a drink. It is one of the most tightly defended numbers in the body. Detox Claims Hina Mirza Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://baddetox.com/detox/chelation-a-real-treatment-sold-for-the-wrong-reason/ https://baddetox.com/detox/chelation-a-real-treatment-sold-for-the-wrong-reason/ Chelation is genuine medicine for genuine poisoning, given under supervision after a diagnosis. Its wellness version borrows the credibility and drops everything that made it safe. Detox Claims Sarika Bhandarkar Mon, 06 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://baddetox.com/detox/parasite-cleanses-and-the-worms-that-were-never-there/ https://baddetox.com/detox/parasite-cleanses-and-the-worms-that-were-never-there/ Intestinal parasites are real, common in some regions and treatable with specific medicines. The cleanse industry has attached that reality to a product nobody needs. Detox Claims Sarika Bhandarkar Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://baddetox.com/supplements/what-supports-immune-function-is-allowed-to-mean/ https://baddetox.com/supplements/what-supports-immune-function-is-allowed-to-mean/ That phrase is not vague by accident. It sits in a specific regulatory gap, and understanding the gap tells you how to read almost every supplement label. Supplements Hina Mirza Sat, 27 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://baddetox.com/supplements/a-supplement-is-not-held-to-the-standard-applied-to-medicines/ https://baddetox.com/supplements/a-supplement-is-not-held-to-the-standard-applied-to-medicines/ Two products can sit on adjacent shelves having passed entirely different tests. Knowing which gate each one came through changes how much the label is worth. Supplements Varun Kothari Wed, 24 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://baddetox.com/supplements/bioavailability-what-you-swallow-is-not-what-you-absorb/ https://baddetox.com/supplements/bioavailability-what-you-swallow-is-not-what-you-absorb/ The number on the bottle is the amount put in, not the amount that reaches your bloodstream. Several gates sit between the two, and marketing rarely mentions them. Supplements Hina Mirza Mon, 22 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://baddetox.com/supplements/fixing-a-deficiency-and-adding-a-boost-are-different-claims/ https://baddetox.com/supplements/fixing-a-deficiency-and-adding-a-boost-are-different-claims/ Almost all the good evidence in nutrition comes from correcting a shortfall. Extending it to people who already have enough is the most common overreach in the category. Supplements Sarika Bhandarkar Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://baddetox.com/supplements/supplements-and-prescribed-medicine-the-interaction-problem/ https://baddetox.com/supplements/supplements-and-prescribed-medicine-the-interaction-problem/ This is where the wellness aisle stops being merely ineffective. Interactions between supplements and prescribed drugs are real, documented and routinely undisclosed to doctors. Supplements Hina Mirza Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://baddetox.com/supplements/no-known-side-effects-often-means-never-properly-studied/ https://baddetox.com/supplements/no-known-side-effects-often-means-never-properly-studied/ A blank safety section reads as reassurance. It usually reflects the absence of investigation rather than the presence of a clean record. Supplements Varun Kothari Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://baddetox.com/supplements/fat-soluble-vitamins-do-not-wash-out-like-the-others/ https://baddetox.com/supplements/fat-soluble-vitamins-do-not-wash-out-like-the-others/ The reassurance that excess vitamins simply leave in urine applies to one family and not the other. The difference is the main safety line in the vitamin aisle. Supplements Sarika Bhandarkar Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://baddetox.com/supplements/proprietary-blends-hide-how-little-is-actually-in-there/ https://baddetox.com/supplements/proprietary-blends-hide-how-little-is-actually-in-there/ A blend total tells you the combined weight of a list of ingredients and nothing about any single one. That ambiguity is the reason the format exists. Supplements Sarika Bhandarkar Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://baddetox.com/supplements/third-party-testing-tells-you-identity-not-effect/ https://baddetox.com/supplements/third-party-testing-tells-you-identity-not-effect/ An independent testing seal answers a genuine and useful question. It is not the question most buyers think it is answering. Supplements Hina Mirza Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://baddetox.com/supplements/herbal-does-not-mean-gentle/ https://baddetox.com/supplements/herbal-does-not-mean-gentle/ Plants produce some of the most powerful compounds in pharmacology. Treating botanical origin as a safety guarantee gets the chemistry exactly backwards. Supplements Varun Kothari Fri, 29 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://baddetox.com/supplements/who-a-multivitamin-is-actually-for/ https://baddetox.com/supplements/who-a-multivitamin-is-actually-for/ The most bought supplement in the world is neither the scandal nor the necessity it is presented as. The useful answer depends entirely on who is swallowing it. Supplements Varun Kothari Sun, 24 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://baddetox.com/supplements/why-supplement-trials-tend-to-be-small-short-and-sponsored/ https://baddetox.com/supplements/why-supplement-trials-tend-to-be-small-short-and-sponsored/ The evidence base for supplements has a characteristic shape, and it is not an accident. The economics of who pays for research explain most of what you will find. Supplements Hina Mirza Fri, 22 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://baddetox.com/supplements/collagen-and-what-your-stomach-does-to-a-protein/ https://baddetox.com/supplements/collagen-and-what-your-stomach-does-to-a-protein/ The collagen argument has one genuinely interesting piece of chemistry and one large unproven leap. Both deserve to be described accurately. Supplements Varun Kothari Mon, 18 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://baddetox.com/diets/the-one-thing-every-diet-that-works-has-in-common/ https://baddetox.com/diets/the-one-thing-every-diet-that-works-has-in-common/ Head-to-head comparisons of named eating patterns keep producing an unhelpfully similar answer. The variation that matters turns out to sit inside each group rather than between them. Diets & Eating Sarika Bhandarkar Sat, 16 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://baddetox.com/diets/why-the-first-week-of-any-diet-shows-a-dramatic-drop/ https://baddetox.com/diets/why-the-first-week-of-any-diet-shows-a-dramatic-drop/ The scale rewards you enormously in week one and then appears to stop. Almost none of that first movement is what you were trying to lose. Diets & Eating Varun Kothari Tue, 12 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://baddetox.com/diets/detox-diets-and-elimination-diets-are-not-the-same-thing/ https://baddetox.com/diets/detox-diets-and-elimination-diets-are-not-the-same-thing/ One is a diagnostic procedure with a defined endpoint and a reintroduction phase. The other has no endpoint at all, which is why it never fails. Diets & Eating Varun Kothari Sat, 09 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://baddetox.com/diets/gluten-a-real-disease-and-a-fashionable-avoidance/ https://baddetox.com/diets/gluten-a-real-disease-and-a-fashionable-avoidance/ Coeliac disease is a serious autoimmune condition with a clear diagnostic pathway. Removing gluten before that pathway is followed is the mistake that causes real harm. Diets & Eating Varun Kothari Tue, 05 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT