Heather AardemaCoach, Author, Speaker, National Board & Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach, Certified Decluttering & Life Coach

Why You Should Take Your Shoes Off at the Door

Name: Why You Should Take Your Shoes Off at the Door
Uploaded: 2025-02-22T17:00:22+00:00
Duration: 55 s
Channel: Heather Aardema
Description: Single-speaker YouTube video (Heather Aardema) recommending that people remove shoes at the door to avoid tracking outdoor toxins indoors. The speaker…

22 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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Single-speaker YouTube video (Heather Aardema) recommending that people remove shoes at the door to avoid tracking outdoor toxins indoors. The speaker cites learning about the issue in a functional medicine coaching academy and refers to an anecdotal coho salmon experiment where highway storm runoff water reportedly killed salmon within two hours; this example is used to support the recommendation.

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We ask people to take those shoes off when they come into our house. This is not just a rule for, for other people, it's what we do as well. When I was in the functional medicine coaching academy, I first heard of the coho salmon study. The study blew me away. What they did is they took. They took runoff water from an expressway after a storm, and they put that water into a big tub, and then they put a bunch of coho salmon in that tub, and within two hours, all of the salmon were dead. So when we are out walking around and then we come home and we keep those shoes on, all of those toxins that we're walking on outside are then coming into the house, and so we take off our shoes, and I strongly recommend that you take your shoes off, too.