Today's walk is actually going to have a half-time history lesson.

Don't worry, it won't be a beat down.

Hi, I'm Dave. Welcome to Walking His Fitness, a daily podcast, 10 minutes every day, providing a little added motivation for you to get out and take the walk.

Today's 10-minute walk, which will come with a little bit of a history lesson,

get started after this.

All right, the history lesson is probably one long block ahead, but it is a long block.

I've got time to read this comment. This really is the topic for today.

And I don't know this person's name. This was a comment to a walking-as-fitness

fitness YouTube video. And this person writes, in my line of work, software development,

I may struggle all morning to find a solution.

I take a walk and often the solution comes to me while I am walking.

Probably should turn off my mind regarding work while I'm walking, but my brain doesn't work that way.

This is an aspect of walking, a benefit of walking that I love.

Probably if you were to go back at the more than 1,400 episodes of walking as fitness,

this topic would probably either be at the top or certainly near the top, and that is the brain benefits of walking.

What happens when we walk, how it affects our thinking, our creativity, even our memory.

And there's research that 10,000 steps a day can actually decrease, reduce the risk of

dementia by 50%.

There's a Latin phrase and I've used this before too.

One of these days I'm going to learn how to actually pronounce it. It is

solved by walking, which is what this viewer, this listener, is saying. I've got a problem at work

in software development. And if I can't find the solution, I'm going to go out and take a walk

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