Minimalist footwear makes healthy feet and healthy feet are the foundation of whole body wellness.

We hate to break it to you, but your sneakers have a dirty secret. Feet are our foundation. Healthy feet promote better posture, coordination, and strength throughout our kinetic chain, counteracting the harmful effects of sedentary lifestyles. But we neglect our health below our ankles. This means we undervalue and misunderstand our feet — and overlook the fact that narrow, rigid, cushioned shoes are robbing us of our natural potential.

Normal shoes have impacted our feet, and not for the better — 95% of babies are born with healthy feet and yet 77% of adults go on to have foot problems (American Podiatric Medical Association, 2014).

Vivos free your feet to move like feet. Our Fit, Feel, Flex system helps build stable, sensory, strong foundations. This enables natural movement with better balance, posture, coordination, and strength — all important ingredients in your holistic health.

Don’t just take our word for it. A growing body of research is exploring what happens when you go barefoot. These findings guide how we understand feet and build barefootwear. University of Liverpool researchers showed that wearing Vivos for six months increases foot strength by 57.4% versus non-minimalist footwear (Curtis et al., 2021). A similar study found that wearing minimalist footwear for just eight weeks enabled significant increases — an average of 41.11% — in muscle strength and size (Ridge et al., 2019).