Walking Might Be the Most Underrated Longevity Tool: How Your Gait Impacts Pain, Brain Health & Aging with Dr. Courtney Conley

0:00Dr.

0:00Courtney Conley, welcome to the podcast.

0:03I'm excited for this conversation, which is for anybody that cares about longevity, anybody that cares about thriving, anybody that wants to reduce their risk of some of the top killers that are out there, cancer, dementia, and for anybody that wants to understand that a simple thing in our life that many of us have overlooked is actually the central aspect to so many aspects of our health.

0:29And what that thing is, is walking.

0:31Yes.

0:32Convince our audience.

0:33Give us the big picture.

0:35Why is walking so crucial to our health and longevity?

0:39You know, it's always interesting to me when I get the question of why do you think we've forgotten about walking?

0:46Because as a human species, as a biped, it is literally what we were designed to do.

0:53We were designed to walk on two feet for long periods of time.

0:57And there's a reason for that.

0:59It's a core biological input that literally stimulates every single system in our body.