You’re Walking Wrong (Avoid These 5 Mistakes After 50)

There are five things you're probably doing right now with walking that are canceling out most of the benefits. There are things that you could be adding to your walking that will make a huge difference [music] in your health. Let's first talk about the benefits of simple walking. The cardiovascular system reduce risk for cardiovascular

disease. There's tremendous amount of research that when you walk, you actually live longer. Then we have the metabolic system. This has to do with blood sugars, lowering your risk for type 2 diabetes. Then let's talk about the brain, the hippocampus. This is the part of the brain that's directly responsible for Alzheimer's and

dementia. If you do walking correctly, you actually can grow the hippocampus. Then we get mental health both in elevating your mood, bringing you out of a depressed or anxiety state, as well as your cognitive function, which I've just talked about in number three. Number five, your sleep because it clears out the accumulation of mental stress. Then

we get body composition, weight loss, better reduction of visceral fat, that's belly fat. And then we also can't forget about muscles. Okay, one of the things that happens as we age is we have age related muscle loss. That's called sarcopenia. Walking and weight training and exercise help preserve the muscle. And the more

muscle you have, the less health problems you're going to have. the less blood sugar problems you're going to have. Not to mention what walking does to your joints. One of the biggest gaps between our current environment versus the environment that our ancestors developed in is motion. I talk about that in my new book called Change Your