Hey, everybody, welcome to the Get Fit Guys' quick and dirty tips to get moving and shape up.

My name is Brock Armstrong, and I am the Get Fit Guy.

The other day, I spent some time chatting with a fellow named Galahad Clark, who is the CEO of a

company called Vivo Barefoot, and we talked all about the importance of going barefoot

and also about the health science that is presented in the new mini-documentary called Shoospiracy.

And that's exactly what we're going to talk about today.

A while ago, I wrote an article and a podcast called How to Build Strong and Pain-Free

Feet that really resonated with a lot of people. Apparently, foot pain is even more of a health

problem than I thought. Is going barefoot more often one possible remedy? Well, in my article I mentioned that although most shoes are specifically designed for various

aspects of athletic performance, general protection, correcting footfall, and looking good,

many of them do not manage to avoid some very important factors, things like toe boxes that press

your toes together, that weaken your foot muscles and weaken nerve endings, thick soles

that reduce sensory input into the nerves of your feet, elevated heels that limit the foot

and the ankle's proper range of motion, built up arches that do the work

your natural arch muscles and ligaments should be doing.

I linked to a lot of research in that article, and the evidence is still piling up.

According to a brand new study about shod and unshawed walkers in the Journal of Nature,

wearing shoes when we walk is changing how our feet interact with the ground below us. No matter how big our foot calluses get,

shoes are still causing more issues than we imagined. Now my guest on today's podcast,

Galaad Clark, noticed these issues, and it is why he

created a line of barefoot-style shoes, of which I'm a proud owner. You can check out the

Magna Trail Shoes if you want to see the ones I have. These issues are also why he created the

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