Going Barefoot Is Good for the Sole

Barefoot TJ

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Going Barefoot Is Good for the Sole
Scientific American
Lieberman, a professor of biological sciences at Harvard University, also started running barefoot himself as an experiment and kept doing it because ...
Barefoot walkers have tough feet but sense the ground just as well - New Scientist
Walking on your sensitive sole - Nature.com
Barefoot Walking Gives You Calluses That Are Even Better for Your Feet Than Shoes, Study ... - Live Science
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"Barefoot Walking Gives You Calluses That Are Even Better for Your Feet Than Shoes, Study ... - Live Science:"

You don't have to have calluses on your feet if you run bare feet if you look after your feet.
I always after I run bare feet and are finished showering moisterize my feet with moisterising cream and put socks on. A cool trick as well, is you rub some shampoon on your feet and put socks on before you go to bed, the next morning your feet are soft and silky. To soften your feet soaking them in a bucket of warm water with some vinegar for half an hour works as well.
 
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I don't know if it's this article or one of the ones I posted just as recently, but I think what science is saying is, according to the article, that the skin cells change as they are compacted to cells similar to those that create horns, like on an animal. Perhaps someone can clarify or word this better for me.

I watched an episode of Dr. Pimple Popper where a woman had an actual horn growing out of the back of her head. What the doctor explained was that at some point, she had a simple bump, could have been a zit, that she scratched and changed the composition of the zit to a cyst that instead of expelling the skin internally, began expelling the skin externally, and as it did so, this horn grew longer and longer. When she removed it, the hole it left, although gross, was very normal and clean.
 
"that the skin cells change as they are compacted to cells similar to those that create horns, like on an animal".
That is very interesting. My feet are still soft because I moisterize them but thinking about it, I can feel the fat at the bottom of my feet feel firmer.

Since I have started running bare feet, I have found my feet muscles are stronger, I have better coordination of my feet (Maybe because I am not more aware of them from running bare feet) and I can feel my legs are getting much stronger. I can feel my quadriceps have more power(strength) now since I have started running bare feet.

Another notice since I started running bare feet is that I am generally looking after my feet and legs better. I am taking rest days more seriously since I started running bare feet as I don't want to pick up an injury, I also feel more aware of my legs and difference muscles in my legs I never noticed before when I ran with shoes on. I think bare feet running works extra muscles of your legs as well, than running with trainers?
 
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"that the skin cells change as they are compacted to cells similar to those that create horns, like on an animal".
That is very interesting. My feet are still soft because I moisterize them but thinking about it, I can feel the fat at the bottom of my feet feel firmer.

Since I have started running bare feet, I have found my feet muscles are stronger, I have better coordination of my feet (Maybe because I am not more aware of them from running bare feet) and I can feel my legs are getting much stronger. I can feel my quadriceps have more power(strength) now since I have started running bare feet.

Another notice since I started running bare feet is that I am generally looking after my feet and legs better. I am taking rest days more seriously since I started running bare feet as I don't want to pick up an injury, I also feel more aware of my legs and difference muscles in my legs I never noticed before when I ran with shoes on. I think bare feet running works extra muscles of your legs as well, than running with trainers?
I think they were talking about the skin not the fat pads, although I'm sure the fat pads must go through some type of change as well.

Running barefoot after being a shoddie elongates the calf muscles and surrounding tissue structure because the typical running shoes and everyday shoes we wear have an elevated heel, sometime up to 2 inches. When you remove the heel, those leg structures lengthen.
 
"Running barefoot after being a shoddie elongates the calf muscles and surrounding tissue structure because the typical running shoes and everyday shoes we wear have an elevated heel, sometime up to 2 inches. When you remove the heel, those leg structures lengthen."

Thanks for the information Barefoot TJ! The lengthening of your calf muscles must make you more flexible?
 
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The skin on my soles thickens and yellows with keratin as they toughen up. It's still flexible and I do nothing in the way of maintenance. It very much resembles the callus that I get on my hands at the base of my fingers and I'd be very surprised if it wasn't callus.
 
The skin on my soles thickens and yellows with keratin as they toughen up. It's still flexible and I do nothing in the way of maintenance. It very much resembles the callus that I get on my hands at the base of my fingers and I'd be very surprised if it wasn't callus.

Reading this led me to doing a search regarding keratin on the feet. There seem to be benefits to Hyperkeratosis (such as that callus like skin developed from consistent barefooting) and negatives (when softer ‘shoddie’ skin gets aggravated from shoes or improper barefoot movement). The skin on my feet feels denser in its composition but still has a suppleness to it and is not hard, dry, or painful. I’ve noticed my feet feel much warmer at all times and can handle coolness far easier.

Knowledge is good :)
 
“Shoddie”- Love It! I am so gonna use that one on WonderfulWifes Family when we have a get together this weekend (they occasionally have a go at me for barefeet, toe socks, and FiveFinger shoes).
You can call them Smelly Feet too. :stinkyfeet: :)