Dr. Courtney Conley explains why walking matters as much as breathing and sleeping for living longer. Foot strength directly affects fall risk in older adults, and modern shoes undermine the foot's natural design. Start with simple steps: walk more, wear shoes that fit your foot's anatomy, and build from there.
If you were to ask someone what they want to be doing in the last decade of their life, every single person would say walking.
In older populations, foot strength and the foot mechanics have got to be so inherently connected to longevity because of the fall risk.
I really want to stress that walking should be a physiological necessity on the same importance as breathing and sleeping. Those three things, when optimally done, This is what it's about. This is longevity.
That's what's inspiring to me about the longevity sciences is that a lot of it is just a back-to-the-basics approach.
Us being a biped, it is literally what defines us as a human being, and it's a part of our body that was designed to handle loads. But when it's ignored or put in footwear that is ill-fitting or doesn't fit or respect the anatomy of the foot, you're gonna have problems.
If we just back up for a second, somebody's watching this podcast and starting to be convinced that I need to walk more, where do they start?
What I will tell my patients— listen.
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