A 12 minute walk alters 522 metabolites in our blood. A 12 minute walk alters 522 metabolites in our blood. That is from the

book 52 ways to walk.

And it's a great read. The author says,

every walk is an opportunity to grow the brain.

We were having a conversation inside the consistency course the other day about changing patterns.

And somebody in the group was sharing that she has a pattern towards the late

afternoon early evening where energetically she crashes and the pattern that she

wants to change is turning to sugar or some sweet snack in that time to break the monotony, to get a dopamine rush and to respond to that low energy and she was asking for

recommendations around changing that pattern and I shared with her that one of my

go-tus is time

is time outside for fresh air walking, or if the weather is prohibitive for being outside,

I don't know where you are, but where I am in real time.

It is extremely cold.

I will take my red light and I will go walk on my treadmill

because there is something that is powerfully re-energizing about moving your body and when you can combine moving your body

with light even if it's not light outside but it's a manufactured red light or something along those lines

you are going to not only increase the blood flow throughout your body which

means you're delivering more nutrients and more oxygen

throughout your entire body, but just 12 minutes makes a massive impact on your biochemistry, altering 522 different metabolites in the blood.

I know that it's cold. I know that the last thing people want to do when it's so cold is get up from the

couch and the warm covers but one of the most powerful things you can do for your

energy for your energy,

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