Barefoot

[Anonymous No.7340006]

So found this article which stays walking barefoot has benefits to health and in fighting disease. It states: "You are an electrical being — your body regularly produces positive charges, which can oxidize and harm you if it is excessive. The Earth’s surface is electrically conductive; it maintains a negative charge with its free electron supply continually replenished by the global atmospheric electrical circuit" and "To put it simply, it’s thought that the influx of free electrons from the Earth’s surface will help to neutralize free radicals and reduce both acute and chronic inflammation, which is at the root of many health conditions and accelerated aging".
/sci/, discuss? link no longer works on source.

[Anonymous No.7340007]

hookworms, nigga.

[Anonymous No.7340014]

>>7340006
It's pretty right though, magnetism has a lot of power and it's been proven to increase healing speed. But that's really nothing, I mean the barefoot thing, the positive charges don't do shit anyways. The good part is you'll be really healthy walking barefoot avoiding shit-ton of foot diseases.

[Anonymous No.7340015]

>>7340007
>mah nigga
First thing I thought of.

[Anonymous No.7340020]

>>7340006
It will also kill your social life because people will think you're a weirdo, leading to more more stress and is thus harmful for your psyche.

[Anonymous No.7340033]

>>7340007
>>7340015
> living in a 3rd world country

my first thought is what's gonna happen to my knees

[Anonymous No.7340046]

>>7340033
>implying first-world countries don't have hobos or pet dogs

[Anonymous No.7340048]

>>7340046
stop walking in dog shit then.
> hobos
I think we gas them here. I've never seen one

[Anonymous No.7340065]

>>7340006
>influx of free electrons

kek. However, your foot has spent millions of years being the by-product of evolution and natural selection, so it's a pretty damn great piece of machinery. Wearing shoes is actually bad for bones/joints/limbs (to an extent,) especially while running.

Most running shoes bend and contort the foot into a shape that will do damage over time, which is why I run barefoot.

tldr your foot is already really well put together, shoes only hinder the performance.

[Anonymous No.7340066]

Walking barefoot as much as possible is indeed good for you (or at least, it's good for your feet), but it has nothing to do with that bullshit. That's pure pseudoscience.

[Anonymous No.7340088]

>>7340020
Toxic social gulag you have there.

[Anonymous No.7340100]

how can someone run barefoot is beyond me

my feet are so pussy-tier that i ALWAYS get blisters if i even remotely run few meters or play beach volleyball on barely rougher surface than pure sand. Also, dat stones on the road, wtf, those fucks hurt like a bitch if you step on them

[Anonymous No.7340124]

>>7340100

Your feet are pussies because you never walk on them. Vicious cycle.

There are still societies where everyone walks barefoot all the time, and they have much lower rates of foot injury than us westerners.

[Anonymous No.7340132]

>>7340124
Quite contrary, i am always barefoot at my home and i'm pretty neet so that means i spend a lot of time barefoot. It's only when i apply some more pressure that my feet totally break

[Anonymous No.7340135]

>>7340124
This. Our feet are braced and cushioned in overprotective footwear so we never work the muscles and ligaments we would have used if we moved around on our bare feet.

Countries like Ethiopia do real good in distance running, their runners have a background growing up as farmers running barefoot across the ground all their life.

[Anonymous No.7340136]

>>7340132
walking around inside your house on a level floor is vastly different than running across wilderness with rocks and pebbles and branches and shit.

[Anonymous No.7340141]

>>7340006
That's the most retarded shit I've read today. Thanks for that.

[Anonymous No.7340158]

>>7340006
>positive charges, which can oxidize

No.

But barefoot feels good. I've done the barefoot running thing, here are the pitfalls:

1. stress fractures because your shit isn't conditioned, running on hard surfaces, or stepping down on hard objects. Improper form can transmit damage to your joints up the leg.

2. Avulsion fractures- thats when your toe gets bent in one direction and the tendon pulls on the bone and a piece of the bone breaks off.

3. Hairline fractures, bruising, contusions, sprains. 26 bones available in the foot for immediate pain going toward chronic, long term disability.

... and walking:

1. Broken glass, its everywhere. 1st, its painful, 2nd, possibility of infection.

2. Even the most glancing blow to the toes can be incredibly painful.

3. a blow easily absorbed by a shoe turns into a long-term injury

In short, yes, your feet are weak and vulnerable from a lifetime in shoes. If you go without you better go easy and be careful, as some level of injury is practically guaranteed.

The newer Vibram type shoes have a much more substantial sole and thicker for protection.

Going without anything on your feet guarantees your shit will get fucked up.

You can achieve bulletproof bare feet, but only after years of constant conditioning and probably genetics.

[Anonymous No.7340169]

I knew some guy in college that walked barefoot everywhere. Can't remember if there was a reason or if he was just a hippy. Seemed healthy as anyone. He grew the dankest shrooms though

[Anonymous No.7340171]

Is running in socks the same as running barefoot?

[Anonymous No.7340295]

>>7340171

Why would you want to do that? You'd lose traction and end up ruining your socks.

[Anonymous No.7340334]

Bullshit. Running barefoot only give you AIDS from used drug needles.

[Anonymous No.7340445]

>>7340065
I run barefoot too, but shoes aren't inherently bad. shoes that change the mechanics of locomotion are what is bad for you. padded running shoes that encourage heel striking puts a ton of stress on your knees that a barefoot runner would never experience because they are using the foot the way is has been adapted to be uesd

[Anonymous No.7340453]

>>7340158
I have bulletproof feet. I live near a 1000 acre forest and go hiking/running barefoot there every day. it took me couple weeks until I was able to run around on rough uneven surfaces all day without major discomfort. its not hard, you just have to be consistent with it

[Anonymous No.7340489]

a lot (possibly most) dancers prefer barefoot to better train the feet, pic related

[Anonymous No.7340499]

>>7340171
You can pick up a pair of shoes that simulate running barefoot.

I recommend anybody give it a shot. You gotta be careful. For starters, walking barefoot is actually harder than running barefoot because you can't land on the pad of your foot as easily.

If you are looking to get away from big cushioned running shoes, but not ready to go the full leap, I know a LOT of people who started with nike Free's line. They have a bit of a drop, but it is pretty minimal and good to experiment with it.

[Anonymous No.7340547]

I have a friend born and raised at the beach in California, she has gone barefoot most of her life (except at work) with no disease or injury.

[Anonymous No.7340559]

>>7340006
the first sentence is correct
afterwards it goes off the cliff in the "batshit insane" territory

[Anonymous No.7340589]

why does almost every pseudoscientist mention "free radicals?"
what are those?

[Anonymous No.7340666]

>>7340066
That doesn't even qualify as pseudo science

[Anonymous No.7340667]

>>7340589
> Radical (chemistry)
> From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
> In chemistry, a radical (more precisely, a free radical) is an atom, molecule, or ion that has unpaired valence electrons.

Having unpaired valence electrons means that it will prefer to react with something to form a stable molecule.

[Anonymous No.7340756]

>>7340006
The electrical stuff is bollocks - Google it and you'll be led straight to a site peddling silver-lined blankets and similar shit. That said, it's never a bad idea to go outside, so feel free to take a stroll round your garden barefoot.

[Anonymous No.7340766]

>>7340589
Put simply, free radicals are very reactive species formed as a result of respiration. They'll react with just about anything in your body, which can obviously be damaging when they start tearing away DNA molecules etc.

For whatever reason, both free radicals and antioxidants (chemicals that 'mop up' free radicals) became fairly well-known, meaning medicine quacks started working them into their rationales.

[Anonymous No.7340798]

>>7340007

Look up the 'old friends hypothesis'

[Anonymous No.7340818]

>>7340065
>your foot has spent millions of years being the by-product of evolution and natural selection

Only like 4 million years but habitual bipedalisam wasn't really set in for about the past 2.5 million. We are still poorly adapted to bipedalisam. Walking and standing require far more energy than they should and our joints wear out prematurely because of it. Just look at how common joint damage is in athletes. We are a freak and you can bet early hominids had a great deal of pain in there older years as they where even less well adapted.

[Anonymous No.7340883]

I went barefoot most of my life, except at school and now at work. It just seems unhealthy and confining to wear shoes all day.

[Anonymous No.7341935]

Where do sandals ffit into all of this. What about socks with sandals. At what point isthere a cutoff of vibrams a are good?

[Anonymous No.7341943]

>>7340006
wouldn't this just work on natural earth though? not manufactured pavements, roads etc.

[Anonymous No.7341989]

>>7340065

is this is true, explain why professional runners wear shoes. surely they would have access to the best sport scientists in the world, and would run barefoot if it was healthier?

[Anonymous No.7341993]

People are barefoot a lot where im from.

Even one of my math professors is always barefoot, just because she liked it.

The going barefoot meme is retarded though, we have shoes for a reason. Some terrain is just not good for feet.

[Anonymous No.7341994]

>>7341989
healthier != faster, but this is correct.

[Anonymous No.7342106]

Enjoy stepping on some glass or a nail and getting tetanus

[Anonymous No.7342918]

a girl at my school goes barefoot all the time, she seems to have no problems with it

[Anonymous No.7343016]

>>7340007
Hookworms are found in soil. As long as he sticks to walking on asphalt he should be good.

[Imnot Arobot No.7343208]

>>7343016
>Hookworms are found in soil
... and mostly in tropical climates.

[Anonymous No.7343366]

>>7340766
Some radicals are incredibly stable. Some antioxidants work by grabbing reactive radicals and transforming them into unreactive radicals (vitamin E).
Your white blood cells use some very reactive radicals to kill bacteria.
Forgive me if this comes across as pedantic.

OP, did you get this text from a website trying to sell you a health product with magical powers based on electron flow?

[Anonymous No.7343589]

>>7340798
nigga that's about microbes, not blistering lesions and shit

[Anonymous No.7343592]

>>7340798

[Anonymous No.7343759]

>>7340453
>I have bulletproof feet. I live near a 1000 acre forest and go hiking/running barefoot there every day. it took me couple weeks until I was able to run around on rough uneven surfaces all day without major discomfort. its not hard, you just have to be consistent with it
do you have calluses and corns ?

[Anonymous No.7344338]

Took a class with Cody Lundin , the bare footed guy from dual survival, he has been bare foot for 30+ years, hes a fucking bad ass and survival expert , pic related, guess which one is me :o

[Anonymous No.7344367]

>>7343592

[Anonymous No.7344374]

>>7344338
top left? seems like you suck lots of cocks for drugs

[Anonymous No.7344387]

thing about going barefoot is that 90% of your day is spent on very hard solid man-made surfaces.

your feet are meant for uneven terrain like soil and dirt and sand. soft stuff.

even rocky areas in the wild are still craggy and not perfectly flat. and in a nature scenario, you wouldn't be on a surface like that for too long anyway.

so if you live in the woods, or by it, by all means, go barefoot. if you don't have access to that, its just not a good idea, your feet aren't designed for concrete and pavement

[Anonymous No.7344460]

>>7340006
bumping for foot fetish

[Anonymous No.7344660]

>>7341989
Modern surfaces absorb heat like mad. Running on track surfacing or concrete would burn your foot right off.

Secondly the top runners in the world are typically Kenyan, and they grew up running barefoot on dirt and grass.

[Anonymous No.7344698]

>>7342918
im fine with stepping in mud, cow dung, sharp sticks and whatever, but i wouldnt walk barefoot in a city.
Asphalt gets unbearably hot in the sun and inside builings its usually freezing cold. Idiots throw away gum, cigars and broken beer bottles on the ground where you would never expect it from a human being. And finally - public toilets, no, just no.

[Anonymous No.7344788]

>>7343759
I calluses go away pretty quick. the pads of my feet are just super thick and tough. they feel like hard leather

[Anonymous No.7345004]

>>7344374
Not top left m8!

[Anonymous No.7346445]

>>7344460

hnnnngggg fuck

[Anonymous No.7347636]

>>7344460
>>7346445
>>those carotin-filled soles
>>chink

Post some actual good shit /sci/

[Sage No.7347645]

>>7344338
Pls be the qt with braids

[Anonymous No.7347651]

Or (in the case of a stupid diabetic woman I know) you get a pebble stuck in your foot and it gets infected, resulting in a blood infection. And then your leg gets amputated so you don't die.

[Anonymous No.7347659]

>>7347651
How did she not just take the thing out? Did she have big fat feet that were so fucked up she couldn't tell?

[Anonymous No.7347660]

>>7340489
I've dated a girl in the Joffrey ballet. At least in that company, the majority of girls prefer to cover their feet whenever possible, since ballerina feet are pretty fucking nasty. Most of them have corns, discoloration in their toenails, they're generally misshapen if they were intentionally broken, sometimes the 2-3 smallest toes are fused together. My ex usually wore boots.

[Anonymous No.7347676]

>>7344338
The one with the hood?

[Anonymous No.7348267]

>>7340883
You should also stop wearing clothes. It's so unnatural.

[Anonymous No.7348271]

>>7344338
definitely the one on the upper right with the terrible hair.

[Anonymous No.7348340]

>>7347660
Ballerinas do extremely unnatural motions like walking around on the tip of their toes though. You probably wouldn't even attempt something like that without padded shoes, ballet is probably very special in that regard.

[Anonymous No.7348503]

>>7348340
I have attempted exactly that, and it was really awful. There are records of "legendary" (usually male) dancers going en pointe without shoes, and most of the ballerinas I've known can go en pointe without shoes, as well. None of them would ever dream of actually dancing like that without shoes, as far as I know.

[Anonymous No.7348504]

>>7347660
>>7348340
ballet is brutal, Anon with the Joffrey gf is right

[Anonymous No.7348507]

>>7348267
try not to be such an idiot

[Anonymous No.7348559]

>>7347636
for science

[Anonymous No.7348562]

>>7347660
my ex did ballet and she had the best feet ever

[Anonymous No.7348590]

>>7348562
absolutely disgusting

[Anonymous No.7348607]

>>7340589
Atoms and molecules with are highly reactive and according to a widespread theory are seen as one of the leading causes of aging and oxidative stress damage in general

[Anonymous No.7348616]

>>7340065
>Most running shoes bend and contort the foot into a shape that will do damage over time, which is why I run barefoot.
Right. Which is why marathon runners all have hookfeet.

Oh wait, they don't.
Oh wait, you have no evidence.
Oh wait, you're a pseudoscientist fearmonger.
Oh wait, you're fucking retarded.

[Anonymous No.7348637]

>>7340006
>walking barefoot has benefits to health and in fighting disease
Definitely true but highly doubt those are valid reasons.
Regarding the hookworm that was mentioned so many times, I remember an article (or a blog?) about a guy who wanted to get a hookworm on purpose to fight another disease and he put his feet in feces but he couldn't get the hookworm even on purpose, so there's that. Not saying it's impossible but it's not like there are no diseases you can easily get from wearing shoes.

[Imnot Arobot No.7348639]

>>7347636
>those carotin-filled soles
>carotin

[Anonymous No.7348788]

It's therapeutic because it feels good and activates blood flow and neurons, much like a massage.

The benefits probably diminish greatly after a short while, though.

[Anonymous No.7348795]

this entire thread belongs on /x/

[Anonymous No.7348807]

>>7340453
>I have bulletproof feet.

[Anonymous No.7348818]

>>7340006
just go live on a cave already

[Anonymous No.7349065]

>>7348795
>le epic /x/ may may
go kill yourself

[Anonymous No.7349201]

>>7349065
it's not a meme when it's true retard

[Anonymous No.7349225]

Shoes are fucking gay. I have never tried a pair of shoes that weren't uncomfortable as fuck. I'm probably going to get myself a pair of those feet-gloves, even if they look awful, just because I can't fucking stand shoes anymore.

[Anonymous No.7349336]

>>7348559
good exercise for feet

[Anonymous No.7349358]

>>7340020
there are two people I can think of that walk and do virtually everything barefoot in my community

both of them are awesome guys who have a ton of friends and great social influence.

no one talks down about them, the worst you'll hear is "yea, that's the guy who never wears shoes! he's actually really cool!"

I think it's more about the attitude bruh

[Anonymous No.7349527]

>>7340020
sounds like you speak from experience

[Anonymous No.7349805]

>>7344338
bottom right

[Anonymous No.7349886]

a girl at my school never wears shoes to class, I don't know whether she even owns shoes

[Anonymous No.7350495]

>>7348562
>She did ballet
There's a difference between going to ballet classes for a few hours a week and having a 9-5 where you're doing ballet constantly.

One of those things causes you to look like >>7348590

[Anonymous No.7350528]

>>7349886
Disgusting and unhygienic.

Fucking attentionwhores.

[Anonymous No.7350568]

That electrical stuff sounds like bullshit, but I never wear shoes if I don't have to. Keeping my feet locked up in a sweat locker feels disgusting, and I must prefer to have dirt between my toes. The bottoms of my feet are like leather.

[Anonymous No.7350665]

>>7348616
>Which is why marathon runners all have hookfeet.

I don't know what "hookfeet" are, but foot injuries are extremely common among runners. Much more common than in barefoot cultures.

[Anonymous No.7350679]

>>7350568
>but I never wear shoes if I don't have to.

Me neither, but unfortunately I live in a city (with a cold climate) and have a respectable job in an office, so I have to wear these stupid things almost all the time I'm not at home. Trying to find "business casual" type shoes that won't wreck my feet.

[Anonymous No.7350698]

>>7350665
Just because a few hippies blog about how fucking awesome they are for not buying running shoes doesn't mean they do any serious running.

[Anonymous No.7350719]

>>7350698
Nigger we did plenty of running before -inventing- shoes a few hundred years ago.

[Anonymous No.7350725]

>>7344338
Definitely the guy with the black hood up

[Anonymous No.7350727]

>>7350719
Yes, people also died of a toothache back then and burned schizos because they thought demons possessed them. Our ancestors did a lot of retarded things, you shouldn't look up to retards with an average life expectancy of less than 30.

[Anonymous No.7350731]

>>7350727
>Hururrrururr I love popsci because I'm retarded dee we so smart now compared to a thousand years ago hahahaha look we so evolved they savage
You're worse than niggers.
Life expectancy for someone who survived childbirth was much higher than 30. All those deaths at 0 brought the average down a lot.

[Anonymous No.7350738]

>>7350731
>All those deaths at 0 brought the average down a lot.
So it turns out natural childbirth is worse than modern medicine? Guess your muh natural fuckery isn't as great as you thought is it? Faggot.

[Anonymous No.7350749]

>>7350698

Nice uninformed strawman, faggot.

[Anonymous No.7350750]

>>7350749
>Hippy cuck talking amount strawmen

[Anonymous No.7350754]

>>7350738
>thinking less of people because they didn't have access to soap and antibiotics
Shoes are completely unnecessary unless you're dealing with concrete or similar, anything else and you'd be fine with (at most) some leather wrapped on your feet to counter cuts and scrapes.

[Anonymous No.7350756]

>>7350738
>your muh natural fuckery

Nobody is saying it's better because it's natural, you silly fag.

[Anonymous No.7350764]

>>7350754
>Shoes are completely unnecessary unless you're dealing with concrete or similar
Well, I guess its a good thing that concrete is fucking everywhere anywhere worth living, due to obvious reasons. I guess shoes are important unless you live in the country, where you'd probably need boots instead.

[Anonymous No.7350768]

>>7350764
I guess that you live in a city then. I'm so sorry for your having to endure it also. If we moved to the country we'd probably be less high strung (because of the natural environment).

[Anonymous No.7351793]

>>7350764
>>7350768
Guys. Shake Hands.

[Anonymous No.7351831]

>all these fucking hippies in this thread

[Anonymous No.7351888]

>>7340006
>You are an electrical being
Stopped reading here. take your pseudoscience elsewhere

[Anonymous No.7352156]

>>7350528
misogynist detected

[Anonymous No.7352192]

>>7350698
hey nigger,
i run marathons.