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you know growing up i had flat feet and

so i would go to the doctor and then

they would make these arch supports that

basically are a mold of your flat foot

and then you walk on them right and

these arch supports were supposed to

correct my arches well all they did is

make me dependent on the arches which i

eventually got rid of when i was 19

years old because i felt so much better

when i didn’t wear my corrective arches

now

if your eyes are bad you go see the eye

doctor and you get corrective lenses

right that basically never correct your

eyes or if you have sleep apnea you can

go get this machine and you can actually

put this mask on and it’ll give you a

constant air supply so you can sleep

better right is that going to correct

anything no it’s a way of coping with

the situation or if you have high blood

pressure you can go to the doctor and

they have a medication for that does

that ever correct anything no it manages

the symptoms right and that’s pretty

much what

healthcare is nowadays it’s not

correcting anything it’s managing your

symptoms and that’s why i do all these

videos to help you understand

things to do to correct the problem so

you’re not dependent on something

and that leads us to today’s topic the

benefits of walking barefoot in your

foot you have 26 bones you have 33

joints in 19 different muscles it’s a

very highly complex part of your body

that allows you to

move

and it supports your entire body weight

so if you weigh 200 250 or 300 or 350

pounds it’s a lot of weight on these

little feet now a very big problem

is these darn shoes that you have to

wear okay

here’s the problem with shoes they’re

very very unnatural they compress your

toes i mean some people actually buy

shoes that are pointed so they’re trying

to put these toes into this space that

just doesn’t fit the toes naturally the

toes should be wider okay so when you’re

constantly compressing these toes then

that creates a lot of problems with your

gait with your balance with your muscles

and your calves and your feet and that

translates up to the knees so wearing

shoes actually increases the risk of

getting knee pain

and a low back pain just because of the

altered dynamics of your foot

first of all we’re raising the foot

above the ground so we’re losing

communication with the ground making

things very unstable and so the bottom

of your foot is really communicating

with the ground through a via right

through like a like a sponge cushion

and if you wear a high heel that’s even

worse

you know i bought some dress shoes that

were 300

when i was in practice and they were the

most uncomfortable shoe that i ever wore

but i didn’t want to get rid of them

because they cost so much but i remember

coming home at the end of the day my

feet were killing me they were so

uncomfortable so since you spend the

majority of the day in shoes it’s very

important to get shoes that are very

comfortable the shoes that i’m going to

recommend are those shoes that fit in

the category of the barefoot footwear so

i bought a series of shoes that are

closer to the ground that provide more

space

for my toes they’re wider okay and

they’re much more comfortable and they

force the foot to work harder but that’s

a very good thing because it creates

more stability so wearing the wrong type

of shoes in general caused the reduction

of range of motion they increase the

temperature of your feet you basically

cook your feet in this small space

uh they create knee adduction that means

the knees tend to go inward and that can

throw off the dynamics of the knee

increasing the risk of knee pain i

already mentioned the low back pain your

achilles tendon becomes more stiff

that’s that tendon in the back part of

the lower ankle and that’s going to

affect your ability to

move and play sports it’s going to

reduce your circulation

and it can even shorten the calf length

okay and create atrophy

of your muscles in your calf

if you wear high heels there’s one study

done that shows that

if your heel is greater than five

centimeters and you wear this high heel

for over two years

there’s significant reduction in your

size of your calf muscles and the

strength of your calf muscles so the

longer you wear these type of shoes

you lose the strength of your foundation

which can affect the rest of the body

because as you know the ankle bones

connected to the knee bone which

connected to the hip bone etc etc all

right now there’s two things i’m going

to recommend first of all start looking

for a shoe that has less of a heel

that’s closer to the ground and that

provides more space on your toes so you

can have more stability okay that’s

number one number two start walking

barefoot on the grass and the sand this

is a very therapeutic exercise that at

first your feet are going to get tired

but then the feet are going to get

stronger and you’re going to find that

there’s much less stress

on your joints so let’s go right into

the benefits of walking barefoot number

one

your toes finally have a chance to

spread out okay just from that alone

that can prevent these toes that become

malaligned and create all sorts of

issues with your gait number two more

communication with the ground is better

and so the mechanical receptors the

receptors in the bottom of your foot if

they’re in direct communication with the

grass or the sand or whatever surface

that information is going to be picked

up and sent through the body to your

brain and you’re going to be way more

stable you’re going to actually be very

surprised on how the rest of your body

is going to feel once your foundation

is really connected to the ground so

you’ll find a decreased load on your

joints more range of motion and more

stability and balance now if you have

not watched my video on plantar

fasciitis that would be a really good

next video to watch check it out it’s

right here

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