If you don't want to get old, take care of your feet

I have a friend who says he doesn't wear minimalist shoes because he is short.

But his feet hurt and he complains a lot. Especially at this time of year, when Easter comes and he puts on his suit with its shiny shoes with pointed toes.

That's the way it is in my village. At Holy Week, even the 'NEET' wear them. In white, with golden necklaces and with a hair that look like fighting chickens, but with a suit.

Let me put you in the picture.

I live in Marchena, a village in the countryside of Seville where Holy Week is like a separate religion. You can be Christian, atheist or agnostic, but you experience Holy Week like everyone else.

You spend a lot of time in the streets, with your friends, family... walking from one place to another with the 'excuse' of watching the processions.

Drinking tapas and beers or coffee with churros, torrijas or empanadillas.

The weather is always good, even if it rains, because soon the sun comes out and the temperature invites you to be outside, to smell the orange blossom of the orange trees, and to walk through the old town, among the cobblestones, while chatting with friends.

As we talk so much, many topics come up and the feet can't be missing.

And my friend, the one who says he doesn't wear healthy shoes because he's short, always complains about the same things: tingling, crowded toes, lower back pain, .....

Sometimes I just listen. Other times I reason to him how important it is that the foot can behave like a foot inside the shoe: that it can expand, that it has space, that nothing oppresses it... that it is a foot and not a hoof.

But he feels 'short height' in minimalist shoes.

He has a strong personality, with great self-esteem, so it surprises me when he says that. He justifies it with the fact that his wife is tall and he doesn't want to look short next to her.

Well, Carmen, a 61 year old woman, had the same problem as my friend who is 46 years old.

The result?

At the age of 61, her knees are destroyed.

Both torn menisci, controlled osteoarthritis in the knees and constant pain in the buttocks/hip/back of the legs.

He also has bunions.

And the worst thing is mobility. Every day he has to suffer to walk 1 km.

Only 1 km, only 61 years old, but the mobility of a 120 year old woman.

Look what her son says:

"She used to be very agile, but now she walks very slowly, and on the stairs she has to be very careful not to fall. Her diagnosis of osteoarthritis made her give up the activity she had been doing since she was young: group multisport classes for women.

Now the closest thing she does to sport is to walk 1km in a completely smooth urban area at a slower pace than is considered normal for anyone. If she tries to do more than that, or tries to walk on a street with a slight incline, her knees hurt and she has to spend several days resting to recover".

Two people of different ages, but with the same end, I'm afraid.

For the woman we recommended the combo: correct toes, insole to activate circulation and the Lems Primal 2.

Flat shoes, 0 drop or no heel, so that the distribution of pressure on her knees is balanced and so as not to limit the mobility of her hips.

Wide, so that you can put the brace on while wearing them and correct bunions.

Flexible and very light, so that nothing influences his movements.

And for my friend and his Easter suit, the Lems Nine2five.

With all the goodness of the Primal 2, but in shiny black leather and with a sole thickness of 1 cm, so he doesn't look so short and stops complaining about his feet.

Small changes make a big changes.

Health starts with your feet.

-Antonio Caballo

P.S. By the way, my friend also complains a lot about his lower back, sometimes with repeated episodes of lumbago. Cause?