Peter Attia: Foot Health Podcast

Correlated, not caused. Probably also correlated to relative strength almost anywhere else in the body, reaction time, mental acuity, amount of time spent on your feet and a thousand other things.

I like Attia but that is weak evidence

I have really wide feet and shoes generally never have fit well, even the widest Brooks. So, my whole life my feet have been cramped and I started noticing at 33 my toes were scrunched together, and what looked like the beginnings of a bunions forming, and id get toe pain when walking or stamding for a long time. I'd heard of minimalist shoes but had never tried them. I tried Xero shoes after seeing an ad, specifically the Prio, and never looked back. Couple of years later and there's a noticeable difference in my feet and the spacing of my toes. No more foot pain. They fit like a glove, so light I forget I'm wearing shoes sometimes.

100% 10/10 recommend.

This was very interesting and informative.

For almost a year I've been on the zero drop/barefoot shoe train and it has helped my foot pain a ton. was walking 3-4 hours a day and backing off helped a lot also. Probably need to look into strengthening exercises.

At least there are plenty of options now, although not the most fashion forward. I need to trade out my narrow toe box dress shoes for some Carets.

I'm generally always okay with my little kids being barefoot and now am thinking about going barefoot shoes for them too. Problem is damn school uniform requirements and less options for kids. Also they're expensive.