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August 15, 2026

Are Bunions Born or Made?

Move Your DNA with Katy Bowman · Katy Bowman · 44 min

Why we chose this episode

A biomechanist takes the most unglamorous subject imaginable and uses it to explain something larger: how the shape of a body records decades of small habits. No supplements, no protocols, no hype. Just careful thinking about how we live in our own feet.

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Which part of your body is shaped by a habit you never chose deliberately?

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Who it’s for: Anyone who assumes their body is simply the way it came.

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Barefoot, walking around the house.

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