Why is walking in bad/old shoes considered unhealthy, but walking barefoot isn’t?
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It’s not clear to me, and I could be wrong, that walking barefoot can be considered generally “good”. All these other comments saying we evolved to walk barefoot is true, except for the fact that the human body did not evolve walking on pavement. Which most of us have been doing our entire lives. Causing the deformities, mentioned by other comments, requiring the use of special orthotics.
There is a lot of anecdotal advice given on other subs and YouTube etc of people pedaling the ideas that “barefoot saved my feet” who may or may not happen to make affiliate money off the shoes they promote. And though there may very well be many people who experience positive results from barefoot, this kind of thing will always exist as misinformation for the people with real problems that can’t be solved by removing your shoe.
This is probably the wrong sub, but right or wrong, I would love for someone to point me to the science on this. Instead of just saying “we evolved this way” because we didn’t.
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