There is a select portion of the population for which it is inadvisable to go barefoot. If you have a medical condition that limits wound healing or has affected your ability ...

Any activity carries some risk, but we feel going barefoot is no riskier than going barehanded. In fact, unclean bare hands are far more likely to spread bacteria that cause diarrhea ...

Any activity carries some risk, but we feel going barefoot is no riskier than going barehanded. Safety is a big concern for many people. Most barefooters find that the ground is ...

Bare feet are generally no more prone to causing a person to slip and fall than many smooth-soled shoes. In fact, a barefoot person may be less likely to slip than ...

While hookworm certainly can be acquired through the skin in the soles of the feet, it is extremely unlikely that this parasite will infect anyone living in a developed country.  ...

Often, it is shoes that make feet need the support of shoes in the first place. Think about an arm or leg that's casted due to a broken bone. After the ...

We don't like seeing anyone get hurt, but we can't always live our lives based on random "what ifs." Everything we do has potential risks and it's our responsibility to weigh ...

We encourage foot health, and we realize that toe fungus and smelly feet are a common problem. Our message is that most feet would not be afflicted with fungus or a ...

Absolutely! Shoes act as casts that weaken the feet and prohibit flexibility. What's more, they act like incubators, providing a perfect breeding ground for all of those nasty foot ailments like ...

What we're saying is that we are advocates of letting feet be feet first. Our natural condition is to be barefoot, and we believe that natural flexibility and strength through barefoot ...

The more bare, the better. Children's feet are soft and pliable and their bones are still continuing to grow and form. Dr. Michael Nirenberg, podiatrist and Primalfoot Alliance Advisory Board member, ...

Well, it's always a good thing to be aware of your surroundings. As you go barefoot more often, you'll get better at seeing what's on the ground around you and avoiding ...

Actually, people have walked on hard surfaces for centuries -- just not always modern paved surfaces. With significant use, trails and dirt paths become extremely compact and hard. Likewise, boulders and ...

Many people have uncomfortably -sensitive feet because they wear shoes so much and their soles get used to a lack of stimuli. A compounding factor is that the feet actually have ...

That's the ironic thing: Your feet already get dirty wearing shoes every day. As your feet sweat inside shoes, that residue and bacteria build up on your feet until you wash ...

Many barefooters have found that feet acclimate to colder temperatures just as the rest of our bodies do. Think about how your body reacts when you first get into a swimming ...

With pavement temperatures as much as 66 deg. C/150 deg. F in the summer, barefooters must be careful about avoiding burns on their soles. Our best answer is that you must ...