The Life-Changing Habits That Healed My Body | Evan Carmichael’s Journey

Hey, it's Evan. I'm at home, and today I wanted to share with you a few things from my alternative lifestyle that have really helped my body. A little bit different video than usual, but it's really helped me, and so I thought I'd make a video to help you potentially as well. The first thing is, is my shoes. So I'm here in the hallway, I'm going to open up my closet. You can see I'm barefoot here. My favorite shoes, as I open up here, let me pull them out, are my Vibram Five Toe shoes. I used to have really bad knees. I don't know why, my knees were always really bad. I used to have to rub them to get them from not feeling, I don't know, they felt weird. I used to just have all these problems with my knees. I went to a chiropractor, I used to have insoles in my feet all the time and they kept changing it up. And I'm like in my 20s, right? I'm in my 20s. I guess in late teens and high school too, and I should not be having these problems, right? But my shoes were causing me issues, and they thought the answer were insoles. What really helped me was going with these Vibram Five Toe shoes. So it's basically like walking barefoot. You're supposed to be walking barefoot in your life. It's the best thing for you. So when I'm at home, I am walking barefoot, and at the office too, I was walking barefoot with socks on, obviously. And then I have my Vibram Five Toe shoes shoes that I try to wear as much as possible, and it takes a while to get used to. You can't just wear them all at once right away. It takes some training. You wear them for half an hour, then an hour, then 2 hours, and you slowly get used to it. But after doing that, my knee problems gone. No problems at all with my knees anymore. So thank you, Vibram. Next, we're going through the kitchen. Say hi to the minions. We're going into my home office, and the next thing is the stand-up desk. So I'm all set up here for video day. I've got actually 2 computers now because Nina likes to play League of Legends, so we, uh, we can play next to each other and get some League of Legends going on at night. Here's my setup. I've got my microphone, I've got my Mickey Mouse glass of water and my smoothie to drink. This stand-up desk really helped solve my back issues. I had really bad back issues. Let me flip this thing around so you can see me. I had really bad back issues, so bad, just crazy pain. And again, seeing chiropractors, and I remember in university having to go weekly and have these electric nodes put on my back, and he put shocks through it, and he would crack my back. And that stuff adds up, it's really expensive. And I'm in university, right? Like, I'm supposed to be healthy here. Why is my back hurting so much, and it was from sitting down too much. You know, I do a lot of work in front of the computer. My business is mostly in front of the computer. The company I had at the time, it was a software company, so I was always in front of the computer, and I would slouch, and it was just bad for my back. And I slowly moved to a stand-up desk. So it takes a while again to get used to. You can't just stand up all day, but you could train yourself and you can build it up. You can create it yourself. You don't have to go and spend tons of money to create a stand-up desk. But it really helped solve all of my back issues. So try a stand-up desk. There's tons of health benefits for you. It is a little alternative. I remember people coming to the office, there's nowhere for them to sit at a regular meeting because I don't have chairs. So that's a little awkward, but I guess you can always get a boardroom or something too. So try a stand-up desk, it really helped solve my back. One last thing I want to talk about, and this is the newest one. My neck. So we're going to the bedroom. So here's my bed, and I still got bad neck problems. I had bad knees, bad back, and bad neck. And what I found was by not using a pillow, I could solve my neck issues by sleeping on my back and not using a pillow. So this is our bed. There's— Nina has a pillow and I don't have a pillow. There's a little blue thing at the back that's a face mask to kind of block out the sun in the morning. But I've always been a stomach sleeper. I've always been a stomach sleeper. Stomach sleeper and it just, you know, killed my neck and sleeping on the pillow killed my neck and so I found that using a memory foam mattress really helped me be able to sleep on my back and not using a pillow really helped my neck. So here I am now, how old am I? It's 2014, I'm 34 years old. My knees feel better, my back feels better, my neck feels better than when I was in high school and university. And it's all because of the vibrant shoes, the stand-up desk, and not sleeping with a pillow. None of these things cost a lot but have a major impact, at least on my life, and hopefully on yours. If you like this video, let me know, leave a comment below. You can click the, the link in the description to support me. And if you guys have alternative things that you do, leave it in the comments. I want to see them because I'm all about experimenting and trying new things, life hacks to make life better. So let me know in the comments. You can click on my face at the top corner, top corner, whichever way it is, to subscribe to the channel. Thank you so much, and I'll see you soon.