Hello and welcome back to another episode of Chasing Excellence. I am Patrick Cummings.

I was always joined by Ben Bergeron. Every week here on the show, we dedicate some time

to exploring how we can live a life of better health and increased fulfillment. We answer

your questions about the five factors of health and a deep, unliving life of excellence

and explore. The strategies and frameworks to help us chase what truly matters. Thank you

as always for tuning into the show. Hello and how the heck are you Ben?

I like how you say how the heck. I was going to say how the heck again.

I'm good. Good man. We are going to just jump right into it. We're going to jump into

our warm up. Our warm up is when we take questions from listeners about the five factors of

health, those few fundamental behaviors that most positively affect our performance,

vitality and longevity. They are for those folks who might be new, how we eat, how we move,

how we think, how we connect and how we recover. Are you ready, sir?

Ready. First one is from the move factor. What are your thoughts on barefoot and minimalist

shoes for foot, for foot health and strength? Are they good for everyday wear? I'm going

to assume that these are like the vibram 5 finger ones. Is that where you? I hear that.

Yeah. There's probably two different categories of these. Let's take the vibram 5 finger ones.

If you haven't seen that, it's basically like a glove for your foot where you actually

can like each individual toe. Yeah. Don't be that guy. They were bigger cross-bought

14 minutes. Okay. So is there benefits? Yes, there is. There's also benefits to like

being naked in public. It's like there is, but you just don't need to do that. Now the

principle is right. So here's what I would do is if you spend time barefoot at each day.

When you go home, don't wear shoes. It's actually just take no shoes at all. You don't need

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