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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 will 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 health care 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 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.

Here's the problem with shoes. They're very, very unnatural. They compress your toes. I mean,

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