How shoes affect our bodies and a focus on genital herpes
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Has James been buying shoes that are bad his feet? He meets podiatrist Dao Tunprasert to find out how healthy his shoes are. Also, returning to our theme of health conditions you find embarrassing, we get the lowdown on genital herpes from Dr Vanessa Apea. She's consultant physician in Genito-urinary and HIV medicine at Barts Health NHS Trust and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London and answers some of your questions.
Presenter: James Gallagher Producer: Tom Bonnett Assistant Producer: Siobhan Maguire
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| 0:46.7 | Would you mind if I describe your feed? |
| 0:48.5 | It depends on the description. |
| 0:50.2 | Go describe my feet. |
| 0:51.9 | Okay, that's why. |
| 0:53.6 | So actually, you're... |
| 0:55.3 | Sorry, is that ticklish? |
| 0:56.9 | Yeah, I have really ticklish. |
| 1:00.6 | What is going on, eh? |
| 1:02.5 | Well, today we're going to see what impact our shoes have on our health. |
| 1:07.6 | So we're going to analyse how my choice of footwear affects the way that I walk |
| 1:11.4 | and how that can cause damage. And we'll see if I'm just bad at buying shoes and get some |
| 1:17.1 | tips for keeping our feet happy. Then later on Inside Health, we'll take a look at another |
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