MILLICENT HUNGWE
The health experts have dismissed a viral claim on social media suggesting that walking barefoot can lead manhood enlargement.
The original blog post, published on June 3, 2020, asserted that spending 30 minutes daily walking on natural ground could lead to a one-inch increase in genital size annually.
The claimed “Canadian researchers” studying this in the Democratic Republic of Congo remain anonymous, and no concrete evidence supports their alleged findings.
Medical experts who wish not to be named have debunked this claim, citing a complete lack of credible medical research.
They emphasized that genital size is primarily determined by genetics, with growth occurring during puberty influenced by hormones.
By age 18 or 19, size typically stabilizes and cannot be altered through external methods.
The regional chairperson for Zimbabwe National Traditional Healers Association (ZINATHA) Prosper Dohwai added that this is the first time he has heard of this claim, but according to Shona values, “there are different traditional means to enlarge the genitals, such as having boys climb the Mumveva tree and place their manhood inside a hole drilled in the Mveva fruit.
Dohwai stated that the boy would then go down, leaving the Mveva attached to the tree, and when the manhood reaches the desired size, the Mveva would be plucked out.
However, medical experts have firmly dismissed any such traditional methods as unsubstantiated and potentially harmful.
