The Importance of Barefoot Shoes with Galahad Clark #13
Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
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The Benefits of Barefoot Shoes
The foot is an amazing bit of kit with 26 bones, over 100 muscles and tendons. It also has 200,000 nerve endings that are the same as your hands. Unfortunately humans were designed to run when padded shoes get involved. And we just develop these bad habits by sitting post-post or standing on our tiptoes. The best way to see natural movement is to look at a four-year-old running around a swimming pool in barefoot. They're laughing, having fun, jumping in and out of the water. We all have huge heads but they can't put their head directly above their feet without getting injured. People don't make quite a big thing about saying '
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