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🗓️ 22 December 2009
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Some advocate that going barefoot is better for the health and strength of your feet.
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0:00.0 | Every sport has its fads that come and go. None more so than running. These days some |
0:09.6 | are advocating for barefoot running, claiming that it's healthier for the anatomy, on the |
0:14.4 | principle that we evolved without shoes, and that's how our legs and feet are best |
0:19.1 | intended to function. Today we're going to examine not only the merits of this notion, |
0:24.2 | but also the empirical data that tells us for sure what works best. |
0:30.2 | Barefoot running is today Unskeptoid. |
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1:21.8 | You're listening to Skeptoid. I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com. Is barefoot better? |
1:29.1 | Today we're going to let our dreadlocks down and take a rational science-based perspective |
1:33.8 | on a trend that seems at face value like just another nonsense hippy claim from the |
1:39.6 | anything natural is good, anything modern is immoral, crowd. The idea that we'd all be better off |
1:46.0 | being barefoot. Whether you run marathons or give boardroom presentations, barefoot advocates |
1:52.6 | claim that barefoot, the way we evolved to run and walk, relieves and prevents orthopedic injuries. |
2:00.6 | I'll freely confess the first time I heard this claim I scoffed. It bears so many of the red flags |
2:07.2 | of pseudoscience. These red flags include the implication of a medical industrial conspiracy to |
2:13.7 | keep us injured by selling us expensive shoes and orthopedic treatments, and of course the ever |
2:19.4 | present all natural fallacy. But what grabbed my attention was that I also noted that products |
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