Wendie Trubow, MD, MBA, IFMCPPresident at Five Journeys, Functional Medicine & Wellness Provider, Best Selling Author, Passionate Champion for Health

What You Can Measure, You Can Manage mp4

17 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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Wendie Trubow tracked her oxygen saturation for nine months and found that four half-hour walks per week at a 20-minute mile pace kept her levels perfect. She credits daily measurement with the motivation to maintain the habit, following the principle that what you can measure, you can manage.

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About nine months ("for the last, what, nine months, maybe more").

A half-hour walk at about a 20-minute mile pace, done four times per week.

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I have been tracking and disturbed by my oxygen sats for the last, what, nine months, maybe more. And I've been watching and trying to understand, like, what causes them to go lower, what causes them to go normal. And what I finally pinpointed, Truckel, is that if I do cardio, and it doesn't have to be ridiculous, we're not talking like short of breath and dripping sweat, we're talking like a half hour walk at a 20 minute mile. So it's really not crazy. But if I do cardio four times a week, my oxygen stats are perfect. If I don't do cardio enough, I clearly see my oxygen start to drift down. And it took me months to figure it out, but it really did serve as a way of going, oh, it's not optional. Right? That walk is not optional. That walk is actually keeping my lungs and my heart healthy. Now it changes behavior because it distresses me to see my stats go low. Right. So now I'm like tracking every day. Yeah. What you can measure, you can manage. So it makes it so much easier.