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BITESIZE | How Walking Improves Our Brain and Mental Health | Shane O’Mara
BITESIZE | How Walking Improves Our Brain and Mental Health | Shane O’Mara
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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 studies that showed that walking improved memory and attention and reversed functional ageing of the brain. He also shares 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.”
Watch the full conversation with Shane O’Mara here:
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Dr Rangan Chatterjee
MbChB, BSc (Hons), MRCP, MRCGP
