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I Stopped Wearing Regular Shoes for 3 Years — This Is What Happened

Why Some Changes Are Obvious and Others Take Time

Dr. Nikita Singh
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8 min readDec 9, 2024

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I didn’t realize Nike and Adidas shoes were causing long-term health damage.

People on social media talking about knee pain, joint pain, and back pain. I didn’t want that to happen to me. That’s when I started wearing barefoot shoes.

I’ve been wearing barefoot shoes since 2018, and it all started after I read one of Timothy Ferriss’ books.

He talked about the benefits of barefoot running, and I was intrigued.

Since then, I’ve transitioned to wearing barefoot shoes exclusively.

In fact, I don’t wear any other style of shoes now — and I’ll explain why a bit later.

Why Barefoot Shoes?

I already told you that it all started after reading a book by Timothy Ferriss.

He mentioned how the way we treat our feet can cause problems later in life. That got me thinking about my own feet and the shoes I wear every day.

I had already started noticing little things — a bunion slowly forming, some aches here and there after long days.

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