Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast, where Dr.

Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

Let's talk about the benefits of walking.

Now that sounds like a real trivial topic, but there's some fascinating benefits that

you may not have considered.

Now in the past, when I talk about walking, I primarily recommend walking for reducing

stress because walking decreases cortisol, which can then decrease anxiety, depression.

It can improve your sleep because it's a low stress, high oxygen activity.

But there's many other benefits to walking that you may not know about.

Number one, it increases the伸ovial fluid in your joints.

It increases the body's natural opioids, which are the natural painkillers of the body.

Walking helps reduce inflammation.

It actually helps you lose weight after 30 minutes.

In the first 30 minutes, you're going to burn off the sugar.

Then you can start tapping into your fat.

Walking can reduce your loss of bone as a normal part of aging.

Walking strengthens your foot and ankle muscles, which stabilizes your hips, your back,

and even your neck.

Walking mobilizes the lymphatic system.

The lymphatic system doesn't have a pump, so it relies on motion for its movement.

It also improves lumbar muscle function to help so you don't get low back pain.

When you walk, you actually lower your blood pressure.

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