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Walking increases blood flow to your hippocampus, sparks neurogenesis, and releases endorphins. Darwin and Steve Jobs used it to think. Neuroscience confirms what Hippocrates knew: forward motion fixes your brain.
Walking increases blood flow to your hippocampus, sparks neurogenesis, and releases endorphins. Darwin and Steve Jobs used it to think. Neuroscience confirms what Hippocrates knew: forward motion fixes your brain.
If you want a better brain, a better mood, and better ideas, do one thing: take a walk. Hippocrates called it man's best medicine, and he was right. History's great thinkers, from Charles Darwin to Steve Jobs, used walking as a catalyst for their thinking. Now neuroscience explains why. Walking increases blood flow to the hippocampus, the memory center, and can actually expand the hippocampus over time. Walking improves synaptic function and stimulates the birth of new brain cells. It triggers endorphins, lifting mood. It lowers stress and anxiety, and It reliably boosts creative thinking, especially when you're stuck. You don't need gear, you don't need a plan, you just need forward motion. When your mind feels cramped, your calendar crowded, or your thinking stale, the advice hasn't changed in 2,000 years. Take a walk.
