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Beauty Bytes with Dr. Kay: Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon™

766: Step Into Health: Mark Sisson on Peluva and the Science of Barefoot Living

Beauty Bytes with Dr. Kay: Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon™

Kay Durairaj, MD, FACS @beautybydrkay

Business, Fashion & Beauty, Health & Fitness, Arts, Management & Marketing, Medicine

4.9608 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Mark Sisson is a former elite endurance athlete, best-selling author, and entrepreneur known for pioneering the Primal lifestyle movement. After founding Primal Kitchen, he launched Peluva with his son Kyle to create a barefoot-style shoe that blends science, comfort, and everyday wearability. Designed with individual toe articulation, zero-drop soles, and lightweight construction, Peluva helps restore natural foot function, improve balance, and enhance posture. Mark’s mission is to reconnect people with the way the body was designed to move, bringing awareness to how modern footwear impacts long-term health.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K, Secrets of a Plastic

0:19.4

Surgeon. Today, you guys are going to learn a lot about your feet, posture.

0:24.5

We are interviewing someone fabulous.

0:26.7

Mark Sisson has been shaking up the world of health and fitness for over 20 years.

0:31.9

He has ignited the ancestral health movement starting back in 2006.

0:37.1

He had a wildly successful blog, his daily apple, his best-selling book,

0:41.8

The Primal Blueprint, and he really has popularized the ketogenic diet and given millions of

0:48.5

healthy grocery shoppers access to healthy things with his Primal Kitchen food company.

0:53.4

Now Mark is changing the way the world walks with his latest venture.

0:58.7

This is a shoe company called Paluva and his latest book, Born to Walk.

1:03.2

So welcome to the podcast, Mark.

1:05.3

Thanks for having me, Dr. Kay.

1:07.3

This is fabulous.

1:08.7

And I first heard about you.

1:10.4

Actually, one of my patients was wearing your fabulous

1:13.1

shoes with the five toes. And I was like, so like, wow, what are you wearing? Why are you wearing it?

1:19.1

And she, she happened to be 75 years old. And she's just like this fit, spry, healthy longevity chick.

1:25.9

And so I immediately got a pair.

1:27.9

And I've been loving them.

1:29.2

Tell me all about the special shoe that you've designed.

1:33.8

Well, you know, it's a long story.

1:35.6

This goes back 35 or 40 years.

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