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In the opening moments of the classic action movie Die Hard, which turns 30 years old this year, a visibly anxious John McClane (Bruce Willis) gets some sage words of advice from the guy sitting next to him on an airplane: “You want to know the secret to surviving air travel? After you get where you’re going, take off your shoes and your socks, and you walk around on the rug barefoot and make fists with your toes…. Better than a shower and a hot cup of coffee.” Of course, as soon as McClane gets to Nakatomi Plaza, he takes off his shoes and socks, makes fists with his toes… and ends up barefoot for the entire movie, which proves to be quite inconvenient for him.

But were those words of wisdom from his anonymous seatmate, credited as “Businessman” and played by actor Robert Lesser, actually any good?

To find out, we reached out to experts in both Western and Eastern medicine — Dr. Ernest Isaacson, a New York-based podiatrist; and healer and creator of WAMBI (Wisdom through Awareness and Mind Body Integration) Hanson Tse.

“Being barefoot is a great way to feel one’s way around new surroundings, and by removing the protective covering of our shoes it also establishes a level of trust to the new digs, which is comforting, relaxing, and just feels good,” Isaacson told us. “Walking barefoot takes us back to our primordial roots, and allows the many nerve endings on the bottom of the feet to make contact with the ground, thereby establishing a real tactile connection to our new surroundings.”