The “oil” in your joints and the mistake you may be making
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Hyaluronic acid. Keep those words in mind, because a few days ago I discovered something very interesting that will change how you see it: it turns out you have hyaluronic acid inside your body long before someone decided to put it in a 50 ml jar.
The secret of joint movement
It's in your joints. Spending a lifetime thinking it was only used to regenerate skin, and now I learn it is much more than that: it allows joint surfaces to slide over one another, like oil (it's not exactly that, of course, but so you understand me).
And all of this has a lot to do with the shoes you wear: a joint is made to move, and a rigid shoe limits part of your foot's movement.
Do your joints sound like an old hinge?
Less movement means less stimulus. And it is known that a joint that moves little also produces a smaller amount of hyaluronic acid.
That is to say: you have a foot full of joints, an ankle designed to flex, toes that can spread, bend… And it turns out the shoes you wear try to control all of that and make your joints sound like an old hinge.
How many hours a day do you wear shoes? And how many years have you been doing it? Rigid sole, elevated heel, narrow toe box. Day after day, year after year. However, the phrase I hear most is: —It's just that I'm getting older.
Of course aging changes things, but joint stiffness doesn't appear solely because you've blown out many candles. Your body also adapts to what you do... and to what you stop doing.
Hydration does not replace movement. The solution is not pouring hyaluronic acid into your coffee or drinking two liters of water a day. Your feet need to move, and the less footwear interferes, the more opportunities they have to do so. You don't need to set aside twenty minutes to 'train your feet': you are already taking thousands of steps every day. The question is what you wear while taking them.
Coqueflex Senzala II: Urban style without giving up barefoot
Now you'll tell me I'm right, but that you don't like the style of barefoot sneakers. Well, look at this: they are in fashion and look like normal sneakers, so you can keep doing what you do in your daily life without going barefoot and without doing weird exercises. You simply change one thing and let your thousands of daily steps do something more for you.
Keep this in mind:
Hyaluronic acid doesn't start in a cream. Your body has been manufacturing it all your life. And your feet are the ones who benefit from it most.
Indeed.
Health starts in your feet.
— Antonio Caballo
PS: All colors and combinations available here: Coqueflex Senzala
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