Is walking really medicine? You're going to hear a story today that might cause you to go,

yeah. And we'll talk about one of the biggest side effects of walking as medicine. Hi, I'm Dave. Welcome to

walking as fitness. This is a daily podcast that provides companionship for your 10-minute walk.

And we'll get started after this.

Today's 10-minute walk is happening near where Ava and I saw a baby copperhead.

We were out walking the other night. I think it was late afternoon.

Yeah, late afternoon.

And it's a paved trail.

It runs alongside a lake.

And we've walked this trail many times

and with nary a problem.

And the other night we were walking along and Ava saw it first this little baby copperhead

that was right in the middle of the trail.

And we both stopped. I said, yep, that's a copperhead. And then I remembered

something that I had read. And I'm not sure if I'm remembering this correctly. But if I am,

that the baby copperheads, the adolescent copperheads, the youth, the young copperheads, actually can be

more venomous, more dangerous than the older copperheads.

And I remember reading why that was, but I forget now.

And this copperhead clearly noticed us, was not happy. And I thought, you know what, let's just kind of swing wide.

Let's avoid the, oh look, cute snake syndrome.

And just keep on walking.

I want to read to you a message I recently got. Hi Dave.

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