Walking is Healing
17 Jun 2026 · 0 min
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Walking stimulates every bodily system in your body, even in modest amounts. Yet doctors rarely prescribe it and people still need convincing to do more of it, despite the scientific evidence.
Walking stimulates every bodily system in your body, even in modest amounts. Yet doctors rarely prescribe it and people still need convincing to do more of it, despite the scientific evidence.
Why do you think that walking is so misunderstood? And what's the, like, the fundamental thing that shocks you the most about that?
I think that it should be on every doctor's prescription pad. If you look at the research of what even a little bit amount of walking does, it literally stimulates every single system in our body. I think what shocks me the most is that we have to have the conversation of trying to convince people to walk more.
I know.
You know, it's like, it would be like telling a fish they have to swim. As a human being, we are a biped. We have evolved to walk on two feet. So if we think about that as walking is as essential to human survival as things like breathing and sleeping, it becomes this physiological necessity. I like to reframe it like that because it isn't optional. It isn't one of those, well, I walked yesterday, so I don't have to walk today, which is, I think there's the difference between our conversation of strength training versus walking. They're both mandatory, But with walking, the research is it needs to be consistent. And that's what's so beautiful about it is it's a low to moderate activity that you can do daily that benefit every system in your body.
