These Shoes Are Killing Me! (Ep. 296 Rebroadcast)
May 19, 2021 @ 11:00pm Listen now:
The human foot is an evolutionary masterpiece, far more functional than we give it credit for. So why do we encase it in “a coffin” (as one foot scholar calls it) that stymies so much of its ability and may create more problems than it solves?
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The Covid-19 shutdown has produced a variety of strange and surprising side effects. One of them has been the health of our feet. Doctors have reported an increase in all sorts of foot maladies in part because so many of us have been spending so much time barefoot. The implication is that our feet would be better off if they were still in shoes every day. But is that necessarily true? After all, we aren’t born with shoes. At least I wasn’t; maybe you were. If the question is “What do you do with a human foot?” are we sure the best answer is “Put it in a shoe”? Th