Fun Fact:
The body has 206 bones and ¼ of those bones are found in your two feet. The more bones you have in a region, the more joints there are between them. This allows our feet to provide a multitude of proprioceptive feedback. This makes sense as they are constantly in contact with our external environment

Health Hack:
Gratitude is an extremely potent health promoting practice for many reasons (1,2,3,4,5,6). It was more recently discovered that receiving genuine gratitude has more objective health benefits than giving gratitude (7,8). It was also discovered that the gratitude being received did not have to be to the individual personally but could be experienced as a narrative of a story (7,8). This means one can use the story of gratitude being received to promote better health outcomes.



Resources:

Andrew Huberman's Podcast on Gratitude


Gratitude Research:
1. Patrick L. Hill, Mathias Allemand, and Brent W. Roberts, “Examining the Pathways between Gratitude and Self-Rated Physical Health across Adulthood,” Personality and Individual Differences 54, no. 1 (January 2013): 92–96, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2012.08.011

2. Rene Melissa Dickerhoof, “Expressing Optimism and Gratitude: A Longitudinal Investigation of Cognitive Strategies to Increase Well-Being,” (PhD diss., University of California Riverside, 2007), https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Expressing-optimism-and-gratitude%3A-A-longitudinal-Dickerhoof/d70480a4c30c829299a927c9cc6e24474189d4dc

3. Paul J. Mills et al., “The Role of Gratitude in Spiritual Well-Being in Asymptomatic Heart Failure Patients,” Spirituality in Clinical Practice 2, no. 1 (March 2015): 5–17, https://doi.org/10.1037/scp0000050;

4. Wood AM, Joseph S, Lloyd J, Atkins S. Gratitude influences sleep through the mechanism of pre-sleep cognitions. J Psychosom Res. 2009;66(1):43-48. doi:10.1016/j.jpsychores.2008.09.002

5. Hill PL, Allemand M, Roberts BW. Examining the Pathways between Gratitude and Self-Rated Physical Health across Adulthood. Pers Individ Dif. 2013;54(1):92-96. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2012.08.011

6. Paul J. Mills et al., “The Role of Gratitude in Spiritual Well-Being in Asymptomatic Heart Failure Patients,” Spirituality in Clinical Practice 2, no. 1 (March 2015): 5–17, https://doi.org/10.1037/scp0000050;

7. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01491/full

8. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S088915912100177X?via%3Dihub

Spinal Degeneration in Asymptomatic Populations


9. Brinjikji W, Luetmer PH, Comstock B, Bresnahan BW, Chen LE, Deyo RA, Halabi S, Turner JA, Avins AL, James K, Wald JT, Kallmes DF, Jarvik JG. Systematic literature review of imaging features of spinal degeneration in asymptomatic populations. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2015 Apr;36(4):811-6. doi: 10.3174/ajnr.A4173. Epub 2014 Nov 27. PMID: 25430861; PMCID: PMC4464797.