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648: How to walk to optimize your health | Courtney Conley, D.C.

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Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.52.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

"I want people to start thinking of walking as a physiological necessity, not simply as a form of exercise,” explains Courtney Conley, D.C. Conley is a renowned foot and gait specialist, chiropractic physician, and founder of Gait Happens and Total Health Solutions clinic and Total Health Performance gym in Lakewood, She is a founding member of the Healthy Foot Alliance and coauthor of Walk, a new book about the power of walking. 0:00 - Walking is fundamental 03:34 - Debunking 10,000 steps 05:37 - The power of a microwalk 08:15 - Steps vs heart rate 09:46 - Weighted vests & step counters 13:26 - Walking to reset the nervous system 16:07 - The 15-minute post-meal walk 19:53 - How walking unlocks teenagers  22:41 - Why uneven terrain matters  26:55 - The mechanics of good walking  32:15 - Calluses are good for you 34:00 - Conley’s favorite footwear 37:08 - Why you should lift barefoot Referenced in the episode:  Find Conley at her website: ⁠https://www.drcourtneyconley.com/⁠  Buy her book here: ⁠https://a.co/d/0eEvaiGi⁠ Study on how brisk walking reduces cancer risk (2025): ⁠https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12885-025-14258-x⁠  Study on how 5,000 steps a day reduces depression (2024): ⁠https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2828073⁠  We hope you enjoy this episode, and feel free to watch the full video on ⁠YouTube⁠! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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What if thinking of walking as exercise is exactly what's been keeping us from doing more of it?

1:20.0

That's right, Dr. Courtney Conley is back on the show to talk about her incredible new read

1:26.2

titled walk. Rediscover the most natural way to boost

1:30.3

your health and longevity one step at a time. Dr. Colleen makes the case that walking is an exercise.

1:37.1

It's a physiological necessity on par with breathing and sleep. We dig into why 5,000 steps a day

1:43.9

is enough to reduce symptoms of

1:45.4

depression, why three 15-minute walks after meals beats a 45-minute evening stroll for blood

1:52.4

sugar regulation and why the foot is the vehicle that makes all of this possible. We get into

1:57.8

weighted vests, terrain variability, and microwalks for when motivation is at rock

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