Are Barefoot Shoes Good For You? | Mark Sisson

The Dr. Josh Axe Show

Dr. Josh Axe

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Think running marathons is the secret to health and longevity? Think again. In this episode, Dr. Josh Axe sits down with primal health pioneer Mark Sisson to reveal why our bodies were never built for long-distance running—and how walking may actually be the key to fat loss, joint health, and living longer. You’ll also learn how modern footwear is wrecking your posture and nervous system, plus what kind of shoes (or barefoot habits) can heal your body from the ground up. Watch The Dr. Josh Axe Show every Monday & Thursday on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@drjoshaxe?sub_confirmation=1 🎧 Early Access! Our listeners enjoy every episode before anyone else! Tune in below and join our exclusive group of listeners → Spotify: https://bit.ly/DrJoshAxeSpotify Apple Podcast: https://apple.co/3JDvWcS Pre-order my NEW BOOK, The Biblio Diet → https://bit.ly/4oPEP3t Watch my free training on how to naturally balance your blood sugar and reverse your symptoms → DrAxeDiabetesClass.com Discover practical steps you can take today to start healing your thyroid naturally → DrAxeThyroidClass.com If you’re ready to start feeling like yourself again and balance your hormones, take my free class → DrAxeHormoneClass.com Uncover what’s really going on in your body with advanced biomarker testing for hormones, thyroid, and metabolism— plus a 1-hour consultation with a Senior Health Advisor! → MyBloodWork.com Visit Peluva.com and use code AXE For 15% off your first pair! Peluva's let your feet be feet! CONNECT WITH DR. JOSH AXE Instagram→ https://www.instagram.com/drjoshaxe/ Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/DrJoshAxe/ TikTok → https://www.tiktok.com/@thedrjoshaxeshow/ X → https://x.com/drjoshaxe/ LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshaxe Website → http://thehealthinstitute.com Sign up for my newsletter → https://bit.ly/4oE9Jf3 Ask Dr. Axe → http://speakpipe.com/drjoshaxe CONNECT WITH MARK SISSON Instagram→ https://www.instagram.com/marksissonprimal/?hl=en Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/marksissonprimal/ TikTok → https://www.tiktok.com/discover/mark-sisson X → https://x.com/mark_sisson?lang=en DISCLAIMER This content is strictly the opinion of Dr. Josh Axe and is for informational and educational purposes only. It is not intended to provide medical advice or to take the place of medical advice or treatment from a personal physician. All viewers of this content are advised to consult their doctors or qualified health professionals regarding specific health questions. Neither Dr. Axe nor the publisher of this content takes responsibility for possible health consequences of any person or persons reading or following the information in this educational content. All viewers of this content, especially those taking prescription or over-the-counter medications, should consult their physicians before beginning any nutrition, supplement or lifestyle program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Ready to launch your business? Get started with the commerce platform made for entrepreneurs. Shopify is specially designed to help you start, run and grow your business with easy customizable themes that let you build your brand, marketing tools that get your products out there. Integrated shipping solutions that actually save you time. From startups to scaleups, online, in person, and on the go. Shopify is made for
0:22.8	entrepreneurs like you. Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup.
0:30.0	First of all, exercise is a horrible way to lose weight. Running in particular, it's a horrible
0:33.7	weight loss strategy for most people. The only people who should be running are, If I can go back in time, I would exercise differently. Our ancestors did not run. The premise of Born to Run, Christopher McDougal's book that you read and that I read, and was a great book, the premise was that we've evolved as persistence hunters. But a persistence hunt isn't two hours of seven-minute miles. Yeah, not at all. Chasing a gazelle down every day. And do you think our ancestors on a big day of hunting, we're like, well, we don't have a hunt today. Let's go out for an easy 10-mileers. No, it was completely antithetical to help. It was a waste of calories. If you can't feel the ground, there's a lack of communication there. Your body, really from the feet up now, doesn't know what to do. And so now your feet aren't communicating with the ground. So then that's now going to disrupt your knees, your hips, your low back, all the way up through your entire spine. And so that's one of the reasons, just looking at the science or the philosophical idea behind why walking barefoot is so important is that if your feet
1:30.1	aren't right, your whole body's not going to be right. I mean, it's really the ground floor of the
1:33.1	foundation.
2:04.6	I mean, it's really the ground floor of the foundation. Betway Casino, receive a free daily spin on our prize wheel and join our amazing rewards club download the betway casino app today 18 plus tis and sees apply be gamble aware dot org why are businesses like hello vet choosing apple products and services
2:14.6	one of the great things about apple products is that it's really easy for us
2:18.4	to handle the security, the updates, the pre-installed applications. We've been able to do that
2:23.5	without a dedicated IT support team. Find out how Apple products and services can help you run your
2:29.6	business at Apple.com forward slash hellovet.
2:37.6	Hey everyone, welcome the show.
2:39.3	Today we've got a friend of mine,
2:41.2	someone who recently moved to the national area.
2:42.7	Mark Sisson.
2:44.8	Mark is the founder of Primal Kitchen.
2:46.5	I've been following his content for years.
2:48.7	In fact, he was one of the first people out there talking about food is medicine, lifestyle medicine,
2:52.4	and really living by design.
2:56.0	And so today we're going to talk about everything from barefoot, not barefoot running,
2:59.9	barefoot walking.
3:01.0	Okay.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dr. Josh Axe, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Dr. Josh Axe and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.