Chronicles of a Barefoot Physician in the American Medical System

It's That GOOD Medicine

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This isn’t a podcast about prescriptions. It’s about the many forms of medicine that exist beyond the hospital or clinic. The kind found in grandmother’s kitchens, quiet forests, walkable neighborhoods, and bustling markets. The kind found in the rhythms of living that shape the human body over time. Hosted by Dr. Nikia Evans, this podcast explores how the body responds to the life around it. The environments we live in — our food systems, our light exposure, the ways we move through our neighborhoods, and the communities around us — all shape the body in subtle but powerful ways. In many ways...

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Chronicles of a Barefoot Physician in the American Medical System

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Why We Stopped Wearing Wearables (And What It Taught Us About Health) 12.05.2026 29:24

What happens when two people obsessed with physiology, performance, and data stop tracking themselves completely? Last year in southern Italy, we quietly stopped wearing our wearables. Not because we suddenly became anti-science or anti-technology, but because for the first time in a long while, we could actually feel what health felt like without needing a device to confirm it. In this episode, w...

In Defense of Walking (Our First Medicine) 05.05.2026 33:49

What if the most powerful tool for improving your health wasn’t more intensity and complexity? In this episode, Nikia and Antowan explore one of the most overlooked forms of medicine: walking. They reframe walking as the foundation of human movement, not something that “doesn’t count,” but something that everything else is built on. What You’ll Learn: 00:08 – Why walking is more than “just movemen...

Sunlight, Walking, and Real Food: Lessons From a Small Italian Town 09.03.2026 49:36

What happens when health is built into everyday life? In this episode of It’s That Good Medicine , Nikia and Antowan reflect on three weeks living in a small town in southern Italy and what the Mediterranean lifestyle can teach us about lifestyle medicine, real food, walkable communities, and nervous system regulation. What started as a last getaway before residency became a living experiment in h...