Barefoot enthusiasts say ditching your shoes is essential for optimal wholebody function. Doctors say minimalist shoes cause injury. Whos right What if they both are In Whole Body Barefoot biomechanist Katy Bowman explains how both sides are right and wrong by broadening the perspective of oversimplified shoes are good or shoes are bad arguments. Using evolutionarybased and biomechanics arguments Bowman demonstrates that shoes in a modern context have purpose but that the tradeoff for protec