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Episode 53: The Heart-Foot Connection: Why Your Feet Are Warning You About Heart Disease with Dr. Ronald Talis

Most doctors never look at your feet, and most of us never give them a second thought. Dr. Ravi Kumar sits down with Dr. Ronald Talis, a board certified podiatrist, to reframe the human foot as the dynamic engineering marvel it actually is — 26 bones, more than a 100 muscles, and a window into your metabolic and cardiovascular health. They cover why modern shoes act like a cast that weakens your feet, the truth about pronation and supination, plantar fasciitis as a flexibility problem more than an inflammation problem, the surprisingly elegant immunotherapy used for warts, why a cold toe might be the first sign of coronary artery disease, and the simple barefoot practice that can rebuild foot strength.