A Quarter Of All Your Bones Are In Your Feet

[@SciShow]

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[@MaoRatto]

Levers or lebers?

[@thedoctor2102]

I guess its no wonder they heal so quickly. I have broken a bone in my foot once before. It bloody well hurt at first I didnt realise it was broken until the swelling went down two days later and I could feel a snapping grinding feeling in my foot when I stretched and flexed my toes. The faster I flexed my toes the more I could begin to hear it. As it turn out after a week of walking it locked in place somewhere and my toes became easier to move. A couple of careless slightly painful reminder cracks (one or I can't remember) and a month later it healed just fine. A pinched nerve here and there but nothing out of ordinary.

[@zouyan]

Yeah, The Fix had already informed me of this during the most terrifying conversation I've ever had.

[@mtylerw]

Did you know…

[@kseniak9204]

Upon finding out I disappeared as a concept

[@yuvalne]

I was waiting for such a comment

[@DavidFrostbite]

"Someone says - I'M gOnNA bReaK EVeRY bOne in yOURr BodY - that's ridiculous! That's _way_ too much work! _But I could break _*_half_*_ the bones in your body..."_ kzbin.infoWJ6m7nQcri8

[@ApequH]

I kept on existing afther but it did get me to pay for dropout

[@CerberusTenshi]

Fun fact. If you look at the bones of a horse's front legs and at the equivalent of the human arms, horses walk on their middle fingers. So technically speaking, all horses are giving you the double finger constantly.

[@alexnelson7258]

Gives new meaning to this clip: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eHyvZnqYdpWar68si=IMcFVziY43G6LT-5

[@CerberusTenshi]

@alexnelson7258 Wish I could warch it. It says, the uploader has not made the video available in my country.

[@alexnelson7258]

@@CerberusTenshi aww, comedian taught young goddaughter that middle finger means "I love you horsey."

[@CerberusTenshi]

@@alexnelson7258 Hahaha. Awesome.

[@LeBongFairy]

Glad someone else knows this one. Can't tell you how many "horse expert" equestrians wrongfully try to argue that the ankle is somehow a knee

[@blackkittycat15]

One thing I always find interesting about evolution is how hard it is to go backwards. Whales returned to the sea and still breathe air. We went from ground to trees to ground and have extra bones to show.

[@alexanderespinoza]

"backwards"

[@bobby_greene]

"Sdrawkcab"

[@asiano3385]

And whales have most of the bones too. At least in their front fins.

[@roanaway]

And they all hurt

[@ridethecurve55]

They might have talked about clubfoot, bunions, etc. Too many people have disfigurations that are life-changing.

[@brandonvasser5902]

Im not short but some of yall gotta give it a break on the high heels. Looks so painful.

[@DesmoraDays]

Always take care of the feets 🐾❤

[@SB-hy9iq]

Gotta take care of your feet

[@elainebelzDetroit]

@@DesmoraDays Reminds me of the old Kids in the Hall "30 Helens Agree" sketch where the Helens say, "You can't pay too much for a good pair of shoes" and one of them says, "My God, your feet are what you walk on!" Hang on, here's the sketch: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eHW3i5agbb2cpM0si=AZjZBXuehPCXPcY2

[@chatbear69]

I love watching Reid. His knowledge and enthusiasm brightens my day. Plus I get to bring this knowledge to work and share. Keep up the good work!

[@aurorasun-qs1pg]

The other 25% are in the hands, 25% in the torso, and last 25% various places

[@TerenceClark]

A lot of our maladies, especially with age, come from us evolving from previous forms. A lot of our back aches and joint problems in our legs are because we are bipeds made out of quadruped parts. A lot of our foot maladies arise from our feet being essentially made of fish fins. I liked what one person said when they said evolution is not survival of the fittest, but survival of the good enough.

[@TrueWolves]

Love that quote. Good enough indeed.

[@noizeaous7267]

And the ones with a caretaker. Take pugs as an example. They wouldn't survive in the wild.

[@helentee9863]

Kind of feel that should be 'survival of the most adaptive'. Adaption doesn't have to be simplely physical/physiological, it can be behavioural too. Homosapians being a prime case.

[@bishop8958]

This is also known as the "Evolutionary Shadow" to represent how evolution really doesn't care about anything that happens *after* a given creature breeds because they've already passed their genes to the next generation, and any problems that arise now won't have any kind of impact on said next generation.

[@TrueWolves]

Except most adaptive isn't enough when species compete in an existing biome or niche. We don't live in super heated hot springes for example.

[@Kram1032]

As an embodiment of ADHD flow states once said: "I can't break every single bone in your body. That would be ridiculous! But I *can* break half of them." (I hope I didn't butcher this quote)

[@TheEasilyBeatable]

Why isnt this video 25 minutes of Hank threatening the audience

[@pssurvivor]

because john told him we're neither a threat nor an asset

[@IsYitzach]

When some one says that will break every bone in your body, I think that's ridiculous. But half of the bones in your body are in your hands and feet. So I could break half of the bones in your body. - The Fix. The Fix should have presented this one.

[@VariantAEC]

"I most definitely can break every bone in your body, so stay clear!" - 3cm wide metal pipe; extreme delta pressure

[@BionicMilkaholic]

If you break every bone in someone's body, it is just one event of extreme pain. More threatening to say you will break every bone in someone's body, one bone at a time and let it heal up before you break the next. That's a few years of anguish.

[@triccele]

I feel so intimidated all of the sudden

[@profwaldone]

i still use my feet to grab stuff on a regular basis, much easier than bending down.

[@sharlharmakhis280]

Same. A nice little consolation prize for all the ankle injuries.

[@JayDawn01]

Oh ya I love when I can flip my boxers from the floor into my hand in one go without bending over.🤙😂

[@LordBrittish]

“Dem bones, dem bones gonna, Walk around!”

[@collinihood9430]

I have an extra toe on each of my big toes, and people always ask me "do you balance better?" Which I have no way of knowing for sure, but it probably helps.

[@iwontliveinfear]

I like to sit in on veterinary medicine classes. It's hilarious the way people react to learning that horses stand on their toenail, that their "backwards knee"is their ankle and their knee is up next to their flank.

[@danahashcroft9482]

and having surgery on them sucks more than say your knee, speaking from experience

[@ancientswordrage]

You're either a surgeon or very unfortunate 🤔

[@danahashcroft9482]

@ancientswordrage second sadly

[@helentee9863]

Hmm, l remember (when working on orthopedics as a nursing student many years ago) how much pain those having bunion surgery seemed to be in. Sorry you've had to go through that.

[@darkydoom]

Well, knee is joint, foot has just way more nerves and tendons

[@danahashcroft9482]

@@helentee9863 I didn't have bunion surgery but i hear that is really bad. My foot was crushed in a headon collision so i had 2 metatarsals pinned back together and a repair of a lisfranc injury. but most pain i have ever been in.

[@Codexionyx101]

1:42 We call that "digitigrade" in -furry art- body morphology.

[@OlessanYT]

Immediately getting The Fix flashbacks.

[@teiraa_]

Amazing host!!

[@dgray7537]

That's too many bones we should have went with hooves.

[@ridethecurve55]

Many people already have cloven hooves (figuratively speaking, of course).

[@tmanook]

Would love an episode showing our sets of kidneys that are developed and absorbed before we are born. Is it 2 absorbed and our final kidneys?

[@banjohero1182]

i ain't hanging from them, but i can absolutely pick up things with my feet

[@Badpvppaladin]

As someone with BIG big toes and arching feet. My big toes and heels make up like 65-80% contact surface with the floor-ground

[@char1194]

I guess if breaking half of your bones doesn't work, 75% is pretty feasible too

[@Katzztar]

I actually have an extra bone in my feet. It serves no purpose. It's only 3mm and is a 'floater', not attached to anything. My podiatrist said that happens with a small percentage of people (sorry that was 25 yrs ago so don't remember the number)

[@Dolph-fe2ks]

Lemme take a swing at this: Balance, Stability, & Mobility? 🤔

[@Sorkabeth]

Will bad arches causing foot pain be less likely if we do start fusing foot bones naturally? Or would we just lose our ability to swim and jump on trampolines or finding it pleasurable to walk in the sand (all things I figure we're better at with flexible feet)?

[@B2WM]

As someone with extremely flat feet, losing what little arch I had seems to make me more knock-kneed as I get older, which hurts more than the feet. From childhood ballet, the girls with more natural arch had an easier time getting en pointe, but usually less strength. There's something to that line in "Haus of Holbein": heels give me arch support, but not ankle strength.

[@ridethecurve55]

Maybe too flexible. I have flatfoot, and it's not fun if you liked taking 20 mile hikes! Why can't this problem be correctable?

[@sqlexp]

As long as human walks with both heels and toes/balls of the feet touching the ground, the bones won't fuse. You need the flexibility to prevent breaking your feet when you step on a small rock.

[@sqlexp]

You can train your arches to some extent by exerting forces on your toes as if by clenching them when you walk or run. The tendons below the foot bones get tightened and restore the arches after a period of training, but you may get toe cramps if you are not used to it. Usually, squeezing/kneading the lower calf muscle resolve the cramps.

[@helentee9863]

​@@ridethecurve55there are exercises available that may be of help. My father was given them to do as a teenager some 80+ years ago.

[@angelitabecerra]

Dig the shirt man

[@SameAsAnyOtherStranger]

Ack hem. Correctly, that is a quarter of the *number* of your bones are in your feet. But could you imagine human proportions if a quarter of bone *mass* was in the feet?

[@jamesgregsy]

Megatarsal! 😂 I love it! ❤

[@ayaderg]

feet are simultaneously heaven and hell for orthos, on one hand, BONES, but on the other hand, very confusing, delicate, and hard to repair ones

[@GangGang1]

I like this host!

[@xpndblhero5170]

4:37 - Now I can't help but imagine a multiverse where horses have human looking hands instead of hooves..... 😮😢 🤣🤣

[@saivinaypavanan7334]

5:52

[@RobinDSaunders]

560 million years ago is too early for fish of any sort, let alone with jaws (3:09) - it's before even the start of the Cambrian. Wikipedia suggests Pteraspis is around 400 million years old, and that paired fins appeared a few tens of millions of years before that.

[@matthewnardin7304]

1:34 but what if you put pants on a horse? Would it just be the back legs or would it have to include all four legs?

[@AudraK]

The real question we should be asking😂

[@SB-qm5wg]

hoofs for hoofing. Nice one

[@elainebelzDetroit]

This video just has me singing, "The ardor of arboreality is an adventure we have spurned..."

[@magister343]

My mom had her right big toe amputated over 5 years ago due to a bunion that led to a bone infection. It did not slow her down at all.

[@memyself3510]

2:22 you can’t fool me. I know a Pokemon when I see one!

[@VoidVagabond]

2:14 Muad'Dib is wise in the ways of the desert.

[@corlisscrabtree3647]

Thank you 🙏🏼

[@alaris1203]

So its harder to fix? 😢

[@DeadStuffGuy]

I’m mostly just annoyed with people who bring up this fun fact because hands have more bones than feet! It’s the same 14 phalanges and 5 metacarpals, but 8 carpals per hand!

[@eggsbox]

Now, if I were to say "I'm gonna break all the bones in your body", well, that'd be ridiculous! …But I could break half of them.

[@reeyees50]

Its because our feet used to be another set of hands that could grasp like you see in other apes

[@General12th]

Hi Reid!

[@adamtuckman5982]

You forgot about the sesamoid bones! They bring the total number of foot bones to 28 (or more, for some people)!

[@baileymclemore6065]

Is foot leg?

[@salemsaberhagan]

Yes. Dogs & cats have hind legs that look like that because they're permanently walking on their toes like humans wearing heels.

[@GuardianOfUltima]

The real question is whether foot cramps can kill a person.

[@Liliphant_]

I get these if I even stand a certain way

[@CorbiniteVids]

This is why our ankles are shockingly weak for animals that spend so much time upright

[@kev5406]

I have no bones in my feet at all 😁. My legs are made of titanium 👍.

[@h7opolo]

this video comes on the same day adam savage uploaded about "the Thing" animatronic. 6:42

[@isacami25]

i wonder if shoes will go towards fused bones or less bones

[@solsoman102]

i’m freaking out right now i just rushed to my drawer and checked all my socks but my bones aren’t there??!!!?? please help i don’t know what to do this is urgent

[@anamorphicalan]

adore it

[@sunnijo]

I’ve been saying for years that anyone who doesn’t believe in evolution just needs to look at what a terrible design human feet are. If you think humans were perfectly designed by some creator, why are our feet so needlessly complicated and prone to injury? And they’re not even cute.

[@shenghan9385]

Less foot bones will probably make you riun faster. Just look at the blade runners. But you wont be doing artistic gymnastics with less bones.

[@astralb.2647]

The way none of these damn bones stay in place in my feet means that I'm almost always walking around with at least 25% of my bones subluxated... I mean, i knew it was a lot but damn.

[@redpony1613]

So if I say I like your feet thats a quarter of your body, it's not weird at all!

[@Liliphant_]

💀

[@asiano3385]

Banned from ...

[@kal0reese]

lmao they referenced the "what if horses wore pants" meme

[@rusnikfromtranscarpathia]

I only have, maybe 18, TOTAL FOR BOTH feet! 😱😱 How is that possible??? Because 1 entire foot and half of my other are NOT mine!!! 😱😱 Anear-fatal auto accident in2006 took out MY lower extremities...thegadto replace with cadaver foot parts, titanium, and prosthetic pieces in order for me to have "feet" again! 😱😱

[@EmilyJelassi]

I have fairly small feet but have very high arches... I wonder if that's why my feet seem to hurt more than most people??

[@lapulapuspirit]

idk who needs to hear this but every night you should massage/stretch out your feet. does wonders for back health

[@Lutefisk445]

Don't presume you know what i keep in my socks, good sir.

[@doronpeynado4246]

My first thoughts as to why is shocks

[@thekaxmax]

Because bipedal walking

[@sarav2209]

And the rest are in your hands!

[@SidW-l4z]

Why are flamingos pink?

[@warp.routine]

They're embarrassed.

[@Joe-Przybranowski]

Their diet.

[@asiano3385]

Because that is their favorite color.

[@LazyCat010]

I've broken three bones my lifetime. Two of them are in my feet.

[@BionicMilkaholic]

I don't know if I want to watch this. Having had 4 orthopedic surgeries, I am very interested in bones. But I'm footaphobic. Feet should always be covered.

[@Netbug009]

And this is why my feet always hurt.

[@shaider1982]

A video from another channel which pokes on the flaws of different body parts. They sqy the best for for the foot should be close to an ostritch. On the other hand, people can.still.climb trees with the current human foot design.

[@stevenriley2525]

What about the hands?

[@ancientswordrage]

Hank Horse asking, is leg foot?

[@wesleygoerzen-sheard5706]

These freet were co-opted for walkn and that's just what they'll do

[@DenajM25]

So complicated, all just to hurt if you bend it wrong

[@obiwanjacobi]

The foot evolved perfectly - but then we invented shoes ...

[@phoenixv117]

So do the hands

[@UdderlyEvelyn]

I vote we fuse most of these bones, they are silly.

[@thekaxmax]

Each fusing reduces flexibility

[@amehak1922]

Hooves for hoofing 😂🤣

[@Metalkatt]

Yeah, my ankles went for the flexibility route, not the stability.

[@silverutopia]

All my joints did that. #ThanksEDS

[@Metalkatt]

@silverutopia Amen to this.

[@Magmafrost13]

But what proportion of our bones are in our hands?

[@notaffiliatedwith7363]

As a wise man once said, “butt is legs”

[@foxwaffles]

And this is why i have to spend so much damn time keeping them healthy.... If i don't treat them like the babies they are they cramp and hurt like hell... Thanks evolution lmao 😅

[@rarbaugh07]

Wearing work boots everyday I’d much rather have hoofs lol

[@ZaccOTear-m7t]

And there's a quarter of them in your hands😂. So if you think about it, it would be easy to break half of the bones in your body lol 😅

[@jonashagstrom4664]

Pteraspis rostrata 560 Ma?!

[@ChiefWaller]

😊

[@richardl6751]

If you include the 27 bones in each human hand, our hands and feet contain over 50% of all our bones.

[@culwin]

These comment sections are getting weirder

[@98Zai]

Reid

[@scottxiong5844]

No wonder my feet looks so weird.

[@mezu-e]

Jerboa do be cute

[@Ilia-ul1pz]

Foot is made of foot. Got it.

[@l3176l]

Yeah, there are too many.

[@firestarter6039]

2:15 LISAN AL-GAIB!!!!

[@MAY-NAISE]

5:59 I rarely see toes this long kzbin.infovFmxq5Hi-jE

[@NiklasTCO]

0:47 🇩🇪

[@danielbickford3458]

So the character izuku midoriya from the anime my hero acadamia has the concerning habit of shattering his bones. He frequently breaks his arms and legs and hands. It's implied but never shown that he also breaks his feet whenever he breaks his legs. Because of all of those breakages, he's broken about 300 to 400 bones before some Shenanigans occur. Thankfully he has somebody with a healing superpower on staff. Also another thing about my hero, in that world people with superpowers don't have a specific joint in their pinky toe. Now why this is important is because a while back I had ran across a social media post, I believe it was from tumblr, in which the original poster was complaining that the mother of the main character did not notice the broken bones in her son's feet , and thus was clearly abusive, the doctor was showing them an x-ray of said bones to show the family the lack of the toe joint. I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt and I'm assuming that they did not know that the foot is made out of dozens of Bones