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What Walking 7000 Steps Daily Actually Does for Your Body

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Did you know that your morning walk can lengthen your life? In this video, we’ll cover the fascinating health benefits of walking. From decreased anxiety and depression to improved digestion, learn more about the benefits of walking every day! Watch this episode next: Reset Your Body in 5 Days (With Zero Food) 0:00 Introduction: Walking benefits 0:10 Health effects of walking 0:40 Health benefits of walking for blood sugar 1:10 More benefits of walking 2:25 Research on walking benefits 3:23 Stress relief tips while walking 4:16 Dr. Gilles Lamarche on sprinting 5:36 Hypoxia training 6:20 Walking mistakes Research has shown that taking fewer than 2,000 steps daily increases disease rates. Anything over 4500 steps shows cardiovascular benefits, and taking more than 7000 steps daily significantly improves your health, including longevity. Walking after a meal can help eliminate any extra sugar you consume. If you wake up with high blood glucose, a morning walk can help lower it and prevent it from being converted into fat. Walking activates your muscles and can improve mood issues like depression. It lowers high blood pressure and can boost weight loss, especially visceral fat loss. Walking while fasting can significantly improve fasting benefits. Walking briskly and walking uphill enhances the benefits of walking. A 2017 Japanese study found that 3 minutes of fast-paced walking followed by 3 minutes of regular walking significantly affected blood pressure levels and leg strength. Repeating this cycle 5 times was more beneficial than 1.5 to 2 hours of walking. For more walking benefits, try backward walking! It strengthens the knees, ankles, and hips. Nasal breathing while walking can increase CO2, which makes oxygen more efficient in your blood. Walking can reduce cortisol naturally, helping to relieve stress. Leave your phone and music at home, and focus on the sights, sounds, and smells during your walk. Another way to increase the benefits of walking is with hypoxia training. To do this, inhale for 3 steps and exhale for 4 steps. You can also try holding your breath for 5 to 10 seconds, every few minutes. Hypoxia training can trigger genes that can strengthen your body, decrease inflammation, and improve recovery. Avoid the following mistakes while walking: •Leaning too far forward •Wearing uncomfortable shoes •Poor timing •Overtraining Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio: Dr. Berg, age 60, is a chiropractor who specializes in Healthy Ketosis & Intermittent Fasting. He is the author of the best-selling book The Healthy Keto Plan and is the Director of Dr. Berg Nutritionals. He no longer practices, but focuses on health education through social media. Disclaimer: Dr. Eric Berg received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic in 1988. His use of “doctor” or “Dr.” in relation to himself solely refers to that degree. Dr. Berg is a licensed chiropractor in Virginia, California, and Louisiana, but he no longer practices chiropractic in any state and does not see patients, so he can focus on educating people as a full-time activity, yet he maintains an active license. This video is for general informational purposes only. It should not be used to self-diagnose, and it is not a substitute for a medical exam, cure, treatment, diagnosis, prescription, or recommendation. It does not create a doctor-patient relationship between Dr. Berg and you. You should not make any change in your health regimen or diet before first consulting a physician and obtaining a medical exam, diagnosis, and recommendation. Always seek the advice of a physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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What Walking 7000 Steps Daily Actually Does for Your Body

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Dr. Eric Berg DCWhat Walking 7000 Steps Daily Actually Does for Your Body. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.

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Then when you get up to about 4,500 steps, which is a little over two miles You start to see cardiovascular benefits if you go a little more past 7,000 steps you start seeing a lot more benefits including living longer one of the things that will nullify the benefits of walking is Sitting too long and then thinking that I can go ride my bike around the block and that will be enough to counter that Unfortunately, it's not quite true. Let's first talk about the benefit of what walking can do to your blood sugar Walking after a meal really will help any extra sugar that you ate Of course, I know some people are gonna go wow I can just eat more sugar in walk Well, I'm not trying to put out that message another thing in the morning when you wake up with high blood glucose Especially if they're a prediabetic or a diabetic walking can handle that too because you can go for a walk in the morning and Burn off that excess glucose Which would be a very very good thing because we don't want the glucose converting into fat Walking activates your muscles significantly improves depression because it's a low stress activity where you get a lot of oxygen

If we compare walking to drugs, let's take high blood pressure medication Guess what walking lowers your blood pressure as far as weight loss goes Yes, you're gonna lose weight with walking especially in the the belly area this real fat But when you exercise you're gonna be increasing muscle and that weighs a little bit more than fat Instead of focusing on weight loss What I recommend you is just measure your waist at the level of the belly button You should see a significant decrease in belly fat if you walk during a fast you can improve your results greatly This is why when you wake up the morning and you don't eat you fast until noon you should walk in the morning You'll get better benefits another tip with walking is if you walk Bristly you will have much better benefits even if we compare the same steps If you're walking faster your results are going to be better also Drinking a little apple cider vinegar in some water that can improve your ability to lose weight because what it does to your blood sugars

Of course, there's a lot of other things to do to increase more intensity when you're walking walk up a hill You can walk upstairs in 2017. There is a Japanese study Which actually has amazing benefits it can actually produce three times the results of lowering blood pressure Ten times the results with leg strength all you do is for three minutes you're walking fast And then for three minutes you're walking normal and you simply go back and forth back and forth five times That specific type of walking through 30 minutes gives you more benefits That an hour and a half to two hours of just regular walking another tip that I recommend is to walk backwards Did strengthens your knees and ankles and hips and it apparently it improves more cognitive function when you do that It also helps your balance of course do this in a safe place I wouldn't necessarily do this walking down the street in a city another thing that I recommend is nasal breathing when you're walking as much as possible Because you can increase more CO2 which then makes your oxygen more efficient in your blood

Another really important purpose of walking to counter the stress of life when I go for walk I do not bring myself on I don't listen to music I'm not watching videos when I'm walking what I'll do is I'll use as many sense organs Is possible and I'll be looking at trees I'll be looking at different colors. I look at how bright it is or how cloudy it is I look at the details of things on the ground. I tried to really focus in on Listening to all these different sounds as long as I can then I'll shift to Smelling different things these are all things that help you get into the present sometimes it might New Maybelline serum lipstick. Maybe it's not just lipstick. It's lush color with endless possibilities It's serum infused With the hyaluronic acid and oil blend For eight hour pumping moisture Intone enhancing shades It's more than the shape. It's who's wearing it

You New Maybelline serum lipstick Maybe it's Maybelline K-pop demon hunters Hajaboy's breakfast meal and Huntrix meal have just dropped at McDonald's They're calling this a battle for the fans. What do you say to that Rumi? It's not a battle So glad the soldier boys could take breakfast and give our meal the rest of the day It is an honor to share. No, it's our honor. It is our larger honor. No, it really Stop you can really feel the respect in this battle pick a meal to pick a side Participating McDonald's while supplies last I take up to 30 minutes to an hour before I can achieve that There's a couple other tips I want to tell you about walking you can also do a form of Hipoxia training mimicking how athletes train at high altitudes a sensor on the topic of athletes I met this 70-year-old man who went from literally almost dying of a heart attack to being like a world champion sprinter

Let's just see what he says about sprinting as an exercise that is awesome for your body I had flat feet my whole life. He got some data that sprinting really helps to You know strengthen the arch and also allows for that spring I'm doing sprinting up hills right now, and it's amazing how My feet are responding and they're like putting back in that elastic band bypassing the actual loss of the arch. I'll tell you a hills. I do 100 meter hills once a week After I've done all my warm-up that's like the beginning of a workout. I'll do 100 meters uphill I walk it back at a slow pace. I run another one immediately. I do that six times By the six-time you feel like you're like about to be crushed Then I have an eight-minute break and then I start doing whatever the coach told me I had to do that day um But yeah hills have been fantastic, and you know running people most of us walk somewhat flat foot

But when you run short distance in the track you're running on your toes especially when you put your when you put your spikes on It's got really different physiological function. The biomechanics are completely different But now back to hypoxia training. How do we do that naturally? All you have to do Is periodically sink your breath with inhalation for three steps An exhalation for four steps. This is not an exact hypoxia method. It's a form of it It's something I would do before this next thing I'm going to tell you But it's a way of restricting oxygen to a certain degree Then you can work up to every few minutes You're going to hold your breath for five to ten seconds Let me tell you some of the benefits that can occur when you do this over a period of time You're triggering certain genes in the body that compensate and make your body stronger Decreasing inflammation and even help improve your recovery. Let's talk about the mistakes with walking Mistake number one leaning too far forward because that's going to put pressure on your upper back muscles as well

Another mistake is wearing shoes that are very cheap or uncomfortable another mistake is not taking advantage of Having your exercise get rid of the sugar in other words when you walk is important The other thing is that some people get very enthusiastic and they over train they go out for a Really long walk and they make this a habit of walking every single day Over soreness so they're over training and I don't recommend that that's a big mistake You want to let your body recover so it's not so sore now that I covered walking There's another type of exercise to take your fat loss to the next level in just 11 minutes a day Check out this video right now to learn how to do it this one Right there click it This episode is brought to you by athletic brewing company no matter how you do game day on the couch in the crowd or Manning the snack table athletic brewing fits right in with a full lineup of non-alcoholic beer styles You can enjoy bold flavors all game long no hangovers no buzz no subbing out for water in the second half

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