In 2009, there was a book called Born to Run published by Christopher McDougall and it

completely changed the world in terms of health and fitness and running.

McDougall, the author, he profiled the Tara Humara people of Northern Mexico who run predominantly

in barefoot type shoes, homemade shoes made out of chunks of rubber and things that they

find around and they're running really, really long distances and he found that their

foot health was really good, their knee health and back health.

Like a lot of these books, there are some problems with the research and some of it might

be myth.

But regardless, it started this barefoot running minimal shoe movement that continues

today stronger than ever.

Back in 2009, there were maybe one or two brands of shoes making minimal style shoes, footwear.

Now there are quite literally dozens and even every mainstream brand like Nike and

Reebok makes some version of a minimal shoe.

When you look down at your feet right now, most of us have encountered some type of foot

binding throughout our life and I'm not being hyperbolic.

We have quite literally stuffed our feet specifically our toes into a narrow toe box shoe.

Most of us have also elevated our heel, whether that's with Nike runners, whether that's

with workboots, whether that's with high heeled shoes, we've elevated our heels, squished

our toe box and in many cases padded up the arch of our feet and quite literally our feet

are deformed.

Most people are walking around with some level of deformity and some of us are walking

around with massive bunions and overlapping toes and hammer toes that might even at some

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