BITESIZE | How Walking Improves Our Brain and Mental Health | Shane O’Mara #160

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Dr Rangan Chatterjee

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Alternative Health, Mental Health

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🗓️ 26 February 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Walking can slow and even reverse functional ageing in the brain, improve our cognition, our creativity and our mental health but yet it is such an underrated activity. Feel Better Live More Bitesize is my new weekly podcast for your mind, body and heart. Each week I’ll be featuring inspirational stories and practical tips from some of my former guests. Today’s clip is from episode 84 of the podcast with neuroscientist Shane O’Mara, a professor of experimental brain research at Trinity College Dublin. Shane believes walking can be our superpower. In this clip he explains how the many benefits of walking go beyond the physical – it’s important for our mood, our happiness and our wellbeing. Shane reveals the results of a study that showed that walking improved memory and attention and reversed functional ageing of the brain, and that if we walk before doing a task, we perform it more creatively. The benefits of walking are retained throughout life and it’s never too late to start. As Shane says, ‘you only get old when you stop walking, you don’t stop walking because you’re old’. Show notes and the full podcast are available at drchatterjee.com/84 Follow me on instagram.com/drchatterjee/ Follow me on facebook.com/DrChatterjee/ Follow me on twitter.com/drchatterjeeuk DISCLAIMER: The content in the podcast and on this webpage is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have heard on the podcast or on my website.

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0:59.6	Welcome to Feel Better Live More, bite size, your weekly dose of optimism and positivity to get you ready for the weekend.
1:09.3	Today's clip is from episode 84 of the podcast with the neuroscientist Shane O'Mara,
1:15.8	a professor of experimental brain research at Trinity College Dublin.
1:21.6	Walking can be such an underrated activity, but Shane believes it can be our superpower.
1:28.1	In this clip, he explains how the many benefits of walking go beyond the physical
1:32.1	and can boost our cognition, our creativity and our mood.
1:41.7	How important is walking for our mood, for our happiness, and for our overall mental health?
1:48.3	Yeah, if you ask people to rate before they go for a walk how they're feeling now on a scale of 1 to 5, they might say, I'm feeling it around, about a 2.
1:57.3	And if you ask them to rate how they'll feel after they've gone for a walk, they'll say,
2:01.4	well, probably about a two.
2:02.9	Then you bring them out for a walk for 20 minutes and you ask them to rate how they feel.
2:06.8	They'll now say a four.
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