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Hello there, welcome back to RunPod and this very special bonus series on all things feet, because feet are the most important

part, I guess, when it comes to running.

We all have to look after them.

So today I'm joined by top podiatrist, Liam McManus from Southwest Podiatry in Southwest London.

Hello?

Thanks for having me back.

Thank you so much for doing this series.

By the way, already I have a gazillion questions on running, on feet, on issues. And when I said

last week I was going to be talking about toes and toenails. Oh my goodness, you're in for a fun

episode this time. I mean, everyone's been going, I've been having problems with my toenails and then someone's

just going, why do we get black and bruised

toenails? Thank you Claire for that.

And David says, how does any

runner keep their toenails?

And then Sarah's gone, I've lost loads of

toenails, they never go back, the same.

Why? What is it? Why do do our toenails why are they the ones that take the brunt

of it well i'm hoping to answer all those questions actually but um but i'll probably categorize them

into four separate problems with with toenails the first thing you really need to do though is

check your shoes you know a lot of toenail problems just occur because your your shoe size is just not

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