"What's the fuss"

"Local TV station attempts big league exposé style reporting by attacking respected
Wilmington community businesses???!!!" Click here to read the entire story...

First, a recent letter from Katie Weaver an RN who is a client and friend to Prima:

Hey guys, I just got finished reading the whole section on the "scam'' foot treatments. What most people don't know is that there are over 2000 pores in each one of our feet. Our lymphatic system constantly carries wastes throughout our bodies, most of which never leave our bodies due to the fact that there is no way to get out. This makes our bodies sick, diseased, achy, allergic, tired, etc... This is a "no brainer" people....the reason why our shoes stink is not because the rubber has gone bad in the soles of our shoes, but rather our feet are sweating out toxins. The sweat and toxins are absorbed in the lining of the shoes where bacteria and toxins breed. It is a breeding ground. Our feet naturally sweat, but I have never smelled anyone's foot that I would consider clean. This is not a "hoax" or "scam". For those of you who are skeptics, do some research while you're eating your cheeseburger from a local fast food chain. you'll find that most of the toxins in your body are from what YOU put in it. Don't attack the people who are trying to help you feel better! If you think its a scam, don't try it. Stay sick and miserable and keep eating your MSG and additives. Yes, I am as granola as they come. I have had three slenda wraps from Prima, and have gone from a size 12 to a size 6/8. It's not a hoax or gimmick, it's all science. I am living proof. You can't knock something until you try it. And as for the whole nail and battery theory, you can get the same results because the nail contains excess minerals, iron, and trace elements. It's a shame the nail and battery can't draw out the mucous, toxins and bacteria in your body. You could really have yourself an invention if it could!! Don't be a hater just because other people feel and look better than you. You should clean your mind with some of the natural minerals you are lacking, and become a part of a revolutionary movement to hopefully lengthen and strengthen your life. The worst thing that can happen is that you will feel better and look better!! Thanks for letting me vent, Katie Weaver, RN

The Exposé

WECT pulled a sneak attack where they tried to set us up for an Exposé and pretend to be a show of the same caliber as 60 Minutes. This attempt to titillate viewers by seeking out a bad guy lurking in our midst was pretty comical, befuddled and poorly planned. It was reminiscent of a Barney Fife "stakeout". Except for the potential of even the most inept news agency to damage local businesses, it was "dorky". Except for the slanderous even malicious intent to damage our prized reputation, which we have carefully developed over the years, it was pretty "silly". Read on...

With years spent researching holistic alternatives to invasive medical procedures and in light of the often devastating side affects of the pharmaceutical/ surgical approach to wellness, the owners of Prima have begun offering an amazing, albeit controversial service. The owners of Prima have been hearing about the detoxifying foot spa for a few years now and have been waiting patiently before adding it to our list of services. Why wait years? We were waiting to see how well this technology was received and to get a sense of it's efficacy with the consumer. Well, as it turns out, you have two completely divided camps, those who love it and offer tear filled testimonials of how the detox foot cleansing has changed their lives and those who have gone crusading against it calling at a "scam" or more "snake oil". Being in the spa industry, offering non-medical alternatives and a more holistic approach to wellness therapy such as massage therapy and body wraps, we have weathered more than our share of these kind of attacks and are quite familiar with the animosity of some medical professionals toward any business offering a non medical, wellness approach. It is important to know though, that a growing number of medical professionals do support our philosophy and modalities. In fact, and you'll find this increasingly interesting as you read on, many medical professionals, after researching this and finding that it does have a positive affect, have added it to their own practices! We have even been hearing from some of them in response to the WECT report.

So what about the ionic foot spa. Ultimately we thought, let's try it for ourselves. We tried it, and we were very impressed. Finally we decided that we would offer it and let our clients make their own assessment. So far the reports have been about what we expected. Most of our clients are ecstatic about the concept and are reporting very positive results and we find very few who remain skeptical.

If you are interested, click on the following excerpt, it is linked to a captivating, insightful and witty testimony by an Ohio man who has quite a story to tell-

"I've heard and read what people say on both sides of the issue, but I don't have any scientific evidence to support a conclusion, nor do I know of any medical testing that shows conclusive proof one way or another. I do know that my father taught me to be a skeptic. According to him, the safest bet was to not believe anything you hear and only half of what you think you saw. However, I am truly grateful to the woman who introduced me to the foot detox, and I am thankful that I was open-minded (or desperate) enough to give it a try. I hope you have found this description of my experience with the foot detox helpful, and I wish you a lifetime of happiness, good health, and prosperity. " (Read this story...)

Another crack investigative report by WECT?

Wilmington's Prima Day Spa was recently the subject of a minor informative report on the foot detox system.

In an interesting turn of events, the WECT reporter, Kim Gebia received a flurry of phone calls about her story from people with all sorts of varying opinions. Many of them were excited about the idea and wanted to know more. Others wanted to attack the validity of the suggestion that this machine would have any therapeutic value.

The initial interview was arranged by Jennifer Saucier, one of Prima's owners when she asked Kim Gebia if she would like to do a story on this interesting device. An excited Kim took the story stating that her story editors saw it as an indulgence knowing that she loved to cover day spa stuff. She scheduled to interview Jennifer, and Elizabeth Casazza, a representative of Aqua Vida (The manufacturer of the technology used by Prima) who traveled to town at Kim Gebia's request and two of Jennifer's friend to use as patrons. Below is a link to that original broadcast.

During the interview, each time Jennifer offered information regarding Prima's approach to these type of therapies or any background on the day spa, she was told by Kim that WECT was being very cautious not to make this seem like an advertisement. In the end Jennifer was not heard or even shown in the resulting interview. In fact scarcely little, only six words were used of what the Aqua Vida representative said. Ultimately it was Kim who did most of the talking about what was the function of the foot spa. What came next was very interesting.

Several days after the original story aired on the morning of December 17th. Prima became besieged with phone calls from curious clients who wanted to know why Prima was offering a "Scam service". We were completely broadsided by what was apparently a follow-up story that as our customers said, painted Prima and the practice of the foot spa therapy in a dubious light. Kim quickly apologized saying that she met with her producer and he said they were getting a lot of concerned calls and that they would need to do a follow up story to get to the bottom of the issue. Not having been given the courtesy of being asked our opinion which was squelched and edited in the first interview, we were bewildered. Owners and representatives of Prima at this time have still not seen the piece or heard anything but reports of a damaging testimony from a local medical professional (not a real MD but an assistant) whom Kim says she sought out for a professional perspective. So strange we thought, when she really didn't listen to anything Jennifer was saying or put it in the original story and found a non MD to slander us. Interesting huh?

When speaking with Kim, we told her that there was what sounded like a slanderous report saying that this was all a scam and hoax, we could get very little of what was said by the medical "assistant" and she seemed to want to comfort us by telling us that our name was not mentioned and it would all blow over and that she was sorry but she had to do it.

We have heard more reports about the follow up interview and we are told that the physicians assistant went to WECT's station and put a nail attached to a car battery in a dish of water and said that this was the same thing. This from a guy who knows nothing of what he is talking about, who not only did not have one of the devices in his possession to compare and explain, but really had no knowledge of the technology at all. Kind of like a moron shining a flashlight and saying "this is the same thing as them fancy overpriced laser beams" when he has never seen a laser beam and wouldn't begin to know what he was talking about without a little research. This was followed by an anchor saying that those patrons in the interview should demand their money back. Patrons ?... wait a minute... those women didn't pay for that service and they were friends who came in to take part in the interview. Oh yes we remember, Kim told us that they needed to appear as customers. Wait a minute.. was this a set-up?... Why would that anchor say that, he didn't know any of the facts... oh wait... it's a WECT report. Still none of us has had any chance to speak to the very selective WECT camera. Nor do we even know the name of this brilliant physicians assistant.

We would like to have access to a media outlet to speak to this report. If for nothing else just to say "Hey, anyone care what we think? Or what about all the hundreds of thousands people in the U.S. who love and demand this service and consider it a part of their wellness regimen? We know there is no certainty about all of this and we know that it is controversial. As we told Kim when she called to apologize, this smacks of past transgressions by the medical industry when they speak publicly against anything new that comes down the pike while they really know little about it. Take for example when chiropractic medicine was summarily dismissed for nearly two decades by the AMA as being a scam in the 60's and 70's until the Chiropractic association won one of the largest settlements ever awarded against the very slanderous and competitive contingencies within the AMA.

Jennifer Saucier holds a business degree from Tulane university and Jason Saucier is a semi-retired portrait artist and currently a business owner and one of the top instructors for intradermal cosmetics in the US. A subject on which WECT's Jennifer Abney interviewed him for a sweeps piece several years ago. They wish to publicly state their disappointment with WECT for what they view as very irresponsible journalism. As for this service. We know damn well people feel better after doing it and they want more of it! They are available for comment however Prima is currently exploring legal options.

So at this point, we are still scratching our heads and wondering how a company like WECT gets away with this sketchy kind of sub-par reporting and behavior. In summary, what they did was get a very small amount of info from us about a non-medical device that is now in use by millions of people worldwide, and then a whole lot of debunking from a medical professional who is still unnamed to us? What he was debunking by the way, was mostly what Kim said in her report. He has not heard from us, we have never met, never seen or heard from him and with the exception of WECT using our name and logo in the initial story, you have not heard from us on this? Strange? Don't debunkers usually confront people they are debunking?

Also worth mentioning is that some years ago WECT had Jennifer and Jason in studio for a report on the controversial mineral body wrap. The response was incredible. However back then they didn't feel the need to follow up with a debunker even though there were neigh-sayers. Now years later we have more customers than ever coming in for this service because it makes them feel and look so much better and competitors have even set up shop in town focusing on the mineral body wrap we introduced. Hey, like mama said, "the proof is always in the pudding".

It would seem that the voracity of some of the skeptics and perhaps the desire by WECT to create an interesting and news worthy controversy led WECT to turn to the end all council of a "Medical Professional". Will someone please tell us who this person is? We think WECT has pulled the follow-up report so we may never see it unless someone is kind enough to send us a copy.

Will we stop offering this service? Heck no! We are not intimidated, people love this service and from what we've seen there is a real value in it, and when last we checked, this is still a free country.

Please stay tuned for our summary of this debacle. We will give more facts as this story unfolds. But in the meantime, we invite you to come and try this service to see for yourselves. We are getting a lot of great feedback on it.

Thank you for all of the kind comments and great feedback from our many clients who have emailed us at info@primadayspa.com

"Foot Detox - Fact or Fiction"- Click here to read this most interesting objective testimonial from a man in ohio.

A recent letter from Katie Weaver an RN who is a client and frind to Prima:

Hey guys, I just got finished reading the whole section on the "scam'' foot treatments. What most people don't know is that there are over 2000 pores in each one of our feet. Our lymphatic system constantly carries wastes throughout our bodies, most of which never leave our bodies due to the fact that there is no way to get out. This makes our bodies sick, diseased, achy, allergic, tired, etc... This is a "no brainer" people....the reason why our shoes stink is not because the rubber has gone bad in the soles of our shoes, but rather our feet are sweating out toxins. The sweat and toxins are absorbed in the lining of the shoes where bacteria and toxins breed. It is a breeding ground. Our feet naturally sweat, but I have never smelled anyones foot that I would consider clean. This is not a "hoax" or "scam". For those of you who are skeptics, do some research while you're eating your cheeseburger from a local fast food chain. you'll find that most of the toxins in your body are from what YOU put in it. Don't attack the people who are trying to help you feel better! If you think its a scam, don't try it. Stay sick and miserable and keep eating your MSG and additives. Yes, I am as granola as they come. I have had three slenda wraps from Prima, and have gone from a size 12 to a size 6/8. It's not a hoax or gimmick, it's all science. I am living proof. You can't knock something until you try it. And as for the whole nail and battery theory, you can get the same results because the nail contains excess minerals, iron, and trace elements. It's a shame the nail and battery can't draw out the mucous, toxins and bacteria in your body. You could really have yourself an invention if it could!! Don't be a hater just because other people feel and look better than you. You should clean your mind with some of the natural minerals you are lacking, and become a part of a revolutionary movement to hopefully lengthen and strengthen your life. The worst thing that can happen is that you will feel better and look better!! Thanks for letting me vent, Katie Weaver, RN

WECT reports on Prima day spa's fascinating foot detox system