Wellness While Walking

346. Is It Too Late to Start Getting Healthy? 5 Reasons Why It's Not + Welcome, Male Listeners!

Is it too late to start getting healthy? We give 5 research-backed reasons the answer is no — including how frail 90-year-olds got measurably stronger in just eight weeks

345. Why Non-Exercise Movement Might Matter More Than the Calorie Math: How to Get "NEAT" Working for You

Newsflash: Long, unbroken stretches of sitting appear to carry health risk beyond the daily total of sitting. But breaking them up can help even when the total hours spen

344. "Do We Have to Give Up Bread?" What to Keep + What to Swap

A listener asked us a question a lot of us may have wondered at some point: do we have to give up bread? Today, we'll look at who might benefit from staying away from bre

343. Why Can't I Stick With Any New Health Habits? Build the Mini-System That Makes Change Last

Why is it so hard to stick with a habit we actually want to build (a daily walk) or one we want to break (easing off the afternoon sweets) even when it's something that w

342. Everyday Foods as Medicine: Dr. William Li on Grocery-Store Foods That Fight Fat and Age You Well

The foods that heal us aren't necessarily exotic or expensive — most are already sitting on our grocery shelves. Dr. William Li walks us through the store, aisle by aisle

341. Nighttime Snacking + Midlife Weight: What Our Bodies Do Overnight if We Let Them, with Dr. William Li

Dr. Li explains what actually drives midlife weight — the sleep, the stress, the timing of when we eat, the reduction in muscle mass — and he does it without asking us to

340. Walking in Summer Heat: Your Skin, Your Eyes, Staying Cool + More Ways to Step Safely While Having Fun!

339. How to Curb Sugar Cravings: All Things Blood Sugar, Body Composition, and Eating by the Plate

Today, the practical half: how to actually loosen sugar's hold. You'll hear where sugar is hiding in foods you'd never think to check. Why cravings often trace back to so

338. Does Nature Want Us to be Fat? JJ Virgin on Sugar and How to Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth Without Harming Your Health or Being Hungry

We've hit the year's halfway mark this week — which makes it the perfect time to revisit the New Year mindset, minus the pressure. In this BEST OF conversation, fitness h

337. WHEN to Eat: Meal Timing, Your Gut + the New Science of Chrononutrition (Plus, My Own Evolved Eating Patterns)

Light runs one clock in your body. Food runs a completely different set of clocks — in our gut, our liver, our metabolism. And when those two signals misalign, we can neg

336. I'm Done Sugarcoating + 10 Foods to Eat for Fullness, Fitness + Flourishing

One solid food choice can make the next good one easier, says the science. Today we're getting direct about something we're not being told clearly enough: what's on our p

335. Volume Eating: The Science of Eating More to Weigh Less

Want to be able to eat bigger, more satisfying meals? Today, we dive into a way to increase the volume of what we eat each day, and how to also ensure we're getting all t

334. The 21-Day Myth + Better Ways to Build a Good Habit or Break a Bad One (Been There!)

The 21-day habit rule is a myth — and the truth is so much more encouraging. Today we're digging into what the research actually says about how long it takes to build a h

333. When Life Gets Chaotic: A Mini Episode on Self-Preservation

In this candid, personal episode, Carolyn shares her real-life challenges navigating the conventional healthcare system—and the realizations she's had about this experien

332. How to Actually Prep for that Surgery or Procedure with Dr. Jen Stevane, Center for Holistic Surgery Founder

The instructions most of us receive before a procedure cover fasting, medications, and not much else. But the weeks before surgery — how we're sleeping, what we're eating

331. All Things Walking: Steps, Pace, Gait, Feet, Posture + More with Dr. Courtney Conley, DC, Author of WALK and Gait/Foot Health Expert

Your step count goal might be off — and wonderfully, the fix is easier than you'd expect! In Part 2 of this conversation with gait specialist and author Dr. Courtney Conl

330. Walking is Your Prescription for Health + Longevity: How to Get the Most Mileage from Your Walks with Dr. Courtney Conley, author of WALK

Walking isn't exercise — it's a biological necessity. Dr. Courtney Conley, gait specialist and author of the new book, Walk*, is back to make the case that walking belong

329. You Have More Time Than You Think — So How Will You Use It? with Laura Vanderkam, Author, Big Time: A Simple Path to Time Abundance

Your "I have no time" story doesn't hold up — and the data proves it. Laura Vanderkam, bestselling author of Big Time, joins us to share what thousands of time logs actua

328. The Health Lessons My Mom Left Us + A Belly Fat Reduction Tool

What did a health-conscious woman get wrong — and what can her story teach us about living longer and better? In the first half of this episode, I share a personal look a

327. Keep Walking: The Foot Health Dos and Don'ts Every Walker Must Know

ALL NEW EPISODE! We're often one small foot problem away from not walking! That's not an overstatement — it happened to me. So this month, for National Foot Health Awaren