Upgrade Spotlight: Find Your Footing in Minimalist Footwear – Xero Shoes : 935

<p><strong>IN THIS EPISODE OF THE HUMAN UPGRADE</strong>™<strong>...</strong></p><p>&nbsp;…you’re listening to a&nbsp;new&nbsp;<strong>Upgrade Spotlight</strong>&nbsp;series&nbsp;based on what&nbsp;you told me you wanted to hear&nbsp;on this podcast. On&nbsp;one Friday each month, these&nbsp;shorter episodes will feature guests who’ll get right into&nbsp;useful information&nbsp;in a Q&amp;A style.&nbsp;</p><p>You’ll find out how to improve your energy and upgrade your performance. You’ll also get the latest knowledge about powerful&nbsp;tools and technologies&nbsp;that allow you to change your biology and the environment around you.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Introducing&nbsp;</strong><a href="https://xeroshoes.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Xero Shoes</strong></a><strong>! During this Upgrade Spotlight, you’ll learn&nbsp;how minimalist footwear reduces injury, improves foot strength and supports healthy feet. You’ll learn that getting grounded is a good thing.</strong></p><p>Today’s guest—serial entrepreneur Steven Sashen—is a competitive sprinter. He knows the mechanics of human feet. He also knows what it feels like to move in shoes that suck.&nbsp;</p><p>So, he and his wife, Lena Phoenix, founded the footwear company Xero Shoes. They ran headlong into shoe history and shoe science to intentionally create “a MOVEMENT movement” of people with happy, healthy, strong feet in addictively comfortable footwear.&nbsp;</p><p>“A quarter of the bones and joints of your whole body are in your feet and ankles,” Steven says. “They're supposed to bend and move and flex just like any other joint. If you're wearing shoes that don't let them do that, that function tries unsuccessfully to move into your ankle, your knee, your hip and your back joints. Those joints aren't built for those micro motions that keep you balanced, that give you agility and mobility.”</p><p>Your feet, and by design the rest of your body, know something’s off with cushioned shoes. So does Steven.</p><p>“The value of natural mo