2025-12-19
19 分钟Walking.
Yes.
We don't do much of that these days.
It seems to have gone out of fashion with all the Ubers and the other ways to get around and all the sedentary behaviour that we do living and working in offices.
What should we know about walking and how important it is?
Because I'll be honest, I don't walk that much.
Yes, I always say it's the most underrated,
underutilized, easily accessible activity that most of us are not doing.
If you look at the research on average step count that most people globally are taking,
it's about 45 to 4900, which means that there's a lot of us that are taking less than that.
So when I'm working with my patients, we always look at baseline numbers.
What's your baseline?
So for example, if you had a person who was walking 2,500 steps a day,
I mean, some of us would be like, wow, that's not a lot.
But for a lot of us, it is.
If you were to walk an additional 500 steps in a day,
your baseline's 2,500, you can reduce your risk of cardiovascular mortality by 7%.
Wow Here's a bigger well
if you have a thousand step increase You can reduce your risk of all-cause mortality by 15% dying of anything all-cause mortality 15% that's a big number for a thousand steps So I have a story for you.
This is a patient of mine and it just you know warms my heart to talk about him