Go for a #walk after #dinner.

Dr. Arthur Brooks explains why a walk after dinner helps blunt blood-glucose spikes, strengthens your circadian rhythm, and lowers depression and anxiety. Walking taps into how humans evolved to move.
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Go for a walk. I do walk after my meals, but I especially like to do after dinner. I'm blunting my blood glucose spikes. But it's also really good for a lot of other things, mental, physical, emotional and spiritual. To begin with, it bolsters your circadian rhythms, especially if you walk after dinner and you see the sun go down. If you're walking outside when the sun is coming up, you won the day. And there's all kinds of neurobiological benefits to that same thing. If you see it on the other side of the day, walk after dinner and watch the sun go down, it's going to really enhance your circadian rhythms. You were evolve to see the sun go down and to have your day wind down with the sun. Walking is one of the best things that you can do to lower depressive symptoms and to lower anxiety. A really good thing to do is just ambulation. We're an ambulatory species. I mean, one of the ways that Homo sapiens became a really effective hunter was just by walking after the stag until the stag would run and then get worn out. And you just walk up to it, walk your way to dinner is the early hunting technique. And the result of it is that we're made to do it. It's ergonomically really, really sound.










