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🗓️ 2 May 2024
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Have you jumped on the barefoot shoe trend yet? For those who have and for those who haven’t, there are some important things you need to know about the world of modern day shoes vs. going barefoot and both’s impact on our health.
From ancient civilizations to modern-day trends - the shoes we put on our feet are drastically different.
That’s why in this bonus episode of the Darin Olien show, I’ll peel back the layers, exploring the science behind barefoot shoes, their potential benefits, and their effect on our overall well-being. We’ll also dive into why foot health is more important than you think, the big issues with modern-day shoes, and the best solutions for going barefoot.
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References:
Goel, S. (2024). The Shoes You Wear Everyday Are Destroying Your Feet — Read This To Restore Your Foot Health. Retrieved from Medium.
Tweney, D. (2000). Your Shoes Are Killing Your Feet. Retrieved from Wired
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0:00.0 | Hey everybody. Welcome to the show. This is |
0:04.4 | Darren Olean. This is the Darren Olean show. |
0:06.8 | Thanks for your questions. Keep them coming and I will pick them, dive into them and give you my points of view, but also examine and look at the |
0:17.0 | research around certain topics. Now, one that I love, a topic that I love and I live is going barefoot as much as possible. |
0:27.2 | Once I freed my feet over, I think it's been about 10 to 12 years ago, where I stopped wearing flip flops all the time. |
0:36.4 | I was surfing a lot. |
0:38.2 | I was in the sand a lot. |
0:40.1 | I was traveling around, superfood hunting. I'd wear minimalistic shoes if I needed to but moreover I would always take my shoes off and to that point my feet have been liberated they've been freed of the matrix of |
0:57.6 | regular shoes so I'm going to dive into this is going barefoot better for you and I think you intuitively already |
1:06.0 | know the answer to that question and you hopefully are trying to put your |
1:11.2 | feet on the ground and use your feet again, but I'm going to unpack some of the |
1:15.1 | marvels, the magic of the foot, the architecture of that, and how important this is, does this impact our overall health? |
1:25.8 | Does this lack of sensory perception literally from or the ground |
1:32.3 | to the rest of our body body does that have an effect? |
1:34.6 | You know, from ancient societies to modern day trends, like somehow along the way, |
1:40.3 | we went from, for millions of years literally millions of years we didn't have any |
1:46.9 | shoes and our foot our feet adapted and became strong and the skin became a huge part of this. |
1:56.3 | So that's why in this bonus episode of the Darenoline show, I'm going to peel back the layers and |
2:00.9 | explore the science behind barefoot shoes, potential benefits, and effects |
2:07.1 | on our overall well-being, our health, the health of our foot, and the health of our life |
2:11.6 | and kind of weigh that against modern day shoes. |
2:17.0 | Welcome to fatal conveniences where we address the things we may be doing in our |
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