A new study quantified the effects of walking when it comes to preventing common diseases

that plague many people, such as obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, depression,

sleep apnea, and more. And what the researchers found involving over 390-some-month-thousand

subjects is walking more than 8,000 steps per day was very significantly protective

against all these different diseases. So this was published in Nature Medicine. The title here is

The Association of Step Counts Over Time, with risk of chronic disease in all of U.S. research

program. And I think this is very important. We have heard so much over the past couple years

about the importance of preserving hospital capacity and preventing loss of lives in all these things.

But how often do we hear that, hey, you should be prescribed walking. I mean, imagine leaving

your doctor's office if you have sleep apnea, obesity, hypertension, and so forth. And your doctor

said, hey, you need to walk 9,000 steps per day. I mean, that would be consider progressive or

egregious or alternative. But yet, we have the data to show and really validate this. So I think

it's important. I know we all know. I mean, many of you that regularly watch and listen to

high intensity health. Thank you for being here, by the way. You know the importance of exercise,

but it's our friends and our family and our coworkers that don't really think these things are

important. So I want to quantify the findings from this study involving close to 400,000 people.

And essentially what the study did was look at Fitbit and various objective measurements linked

with walking and step count in this large data set. I wasn't a big fan of Fitbit. I do like them.

I use a Garmin watch just because the Garmin looks at your steps. It looks at the intensity

minutes, which is something we're going to talk much more about now. The importance of intensity

really comes into play here. But also it looks at HRV and then it has a built-in map future that

I like when I'm in the back country. So that's just what I use. But this study looked at Garmin's

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