Wellness While Walking
Are midlife metabolism changes making you feel like your body has new rules you don't understand? Struggling to find the consistency, motivation, and pain-free options to maintain your health after age 40, 50, 60 or beyond? Looking for a walking companion who truly understands your health challenges and helps you cut through the health information overwhelm to discover what actually works for your midlife body? Join Health Coach Carolyn for Wellness While Walking—your 30-minute movement companion that delivers research-backed strategies for weight management, metabolic health, and extending your healthspan in a motivating, compassionate format! Each episode addresses the real concerns you're facing: how to navigate shifts in your metabolism, establish sustainable habits despite busy schedules, adapt movement to work for you, and implement doable nutrition approaches that work with—not against—your changing body. Coach Carolyn combines the latest walking and health research with practical wisdom that acknowledges the unique challenges of midlife wellness. Whether you're seeking accountability for consistent action, clarity on conflicting health advice, or gentle guidance for aging vibrantly, Wellness While Walking meets you where you are with understanding and actionable solutions. By the end of each 30-minute episode, you'll feel physically energized, mentally renewed, and equipped with clear next steps—having moved, learned, laughed, and found the motivation to take the next meaningful step on your health journey!
Episodes
295. Variety is the Spice of Walking, Health + Life! Plus Mindful Walking and Gratitude (Re-Release)
Hunter-gatherers ate dozens of different plants each day! How can we use variety to maximize our health in the modern day, even while the American Heart Association asks us to limit the variety of what we eat?!? Also, how do you react when you take health-affirming steps? Do you diminish their power or do you celebrate and elevate them? Regardless, we’ll talk about how to tweak our small steps mindset for maxim...
When I consulted the wrong practitioner, it resulted in years of an overwhelming search for solutions and a multi-thousand dollar bill. I’m taking you along on my journey so you can avoid a similar one! We’ll also talk about why chewing is so important to our cognitive health, and how we can keep our indoor air clean and why we should care to!
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Alarmist headlines claim dieting leads to depression—should you let that stop your changing up your eating pattern to achieve your health goals? In this episode, we’ll examine those “sad diets,” and you’ll discover actionable, mindset-based strate...
Think your daily diet soda is keeping you trim and healthy? A shocking new study reveals that just one can increases diabetes risk by 38%, while artificial sweeteners disrupt gut health, trigger belly fat storage, and hijack brain chemistry – all for zero calories! Today, we expose diet soda myths and share proven strategies to break sweetened beverage addiction, including gradual reduction and a 30-day dopamin...
Mental roadblocks can sabotage our health goals. The key to success is identifying them, and replacing them with clear, empowering strategies. We’ll also introduce a powerful framework to help you stay consistent with what you’ll do daily, weekly, monthly—and what you’ll never do again. We...
Don’t wait for a health crisis or an unfortunate diagnosis. Let’s take steps now to get on the path to health. It’s not about perfection, but it’s also about not waiting until we have more time or anything else. Something is always better than nothing, and extra stars for doing that something today!
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Recent research found a way to enhance movement that allowed study participants to reduce their levels of cognitive decline, and we talk about how we can incorporate that add-on activity to our own walks or other movement activities we do! And we're back with Judy Benjamin, the 81-year-old walking across America to highlight how we can affect the impact of Alzheimer's disease. Today, she's sharing her best tips for walking!
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Want to know the lifestyle protocol that reversed Judy Benjamin's Alzheimer's diagnosis and transformed her from a sleep-deprived, mold-exposed humanitarian worker into an 81-year-old powerhouse walking across America? In this revelatory episode, we dive deep into her comprehensive transformation strategy—from optimizing sleep habits and eliminating environmental toxins to overhauling nutrition and mastering st...
Does an Alzheimer’s diagnosis mean it’s all downhill? Well, today’s guest has something to say about that commonly-held belief!
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The headlines tell us to eat more carbohydrates in midlife, but should we? Let’s dive into the story of carbs and how they fit into our diets. And then we'll figure out how we can eat pasta while we strive for vibrant health!
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As I spent time with my family at the college graduation of our youngest child, editor extraordinaire Emily Prokop chose an episode that she felt was important to air again – hear from Emily herself why it was the one she landed on!
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Try the Japanese 3X3 Interval Walking technique with me today! Today, we've got beeps (of course!) to prompt you to speed up and slow down for five powerful but not too-challenging rounds. Last episode, we talked about the incredible health effects of this interval walking method so today, we'll easily put it into action while we talk about: smarter afternoon snacking, avoiding a grilling danger, and also how t...
Want transformation in a 30-minute walk? Coming right up! A Japanese-inspired walking approach that surprised researchers in its efficacy in building aerobic fitness, reducing blood pressure and blood sugar, and elevating mood, all in a way that research participants did more of than asked because they enjoyed it so much! This isn’t your latest walking fad – join me to learn how to upgrade your walks today!
Is the chaos on your countertops sabotaging your health? Let’s explore the deep connections between clutter and health – including brain fog, overeating and increased stress -- by unveiling two transformative approaches to decluttering: the philosophical Swedish Death Cleaning and the practical "Organizing from the Inside Out" method. With insights from fresh research and real-life reflections, this episo...
What if the $1 billion bankruptcy of America's most iconic weight loss company revealed the exact tools you need—and the pitfalls to avoid—for your own health transformation? This revealing analysis strips away Weight Watchers' outdated approaches to uncover the powerful frameworks that actually drive lasting results, while exposing how the notorious points system created dependency rather than true nutritional...
Citing plastics in our bodies, tainted and under-regulated drinking water and the other toxins we and our families experience daily, Dr. Aly Cohen motivates us to prioritize what’s important to us. We can walk through her 21-day program as outlined in her new book, Detoxify, or just listen to her guidance here and take the next step to health without having to move to a deserted island! We’ll wrap up the episode by sharing how Dr. ...
When Dr. Aly Cohen’s golden retriever got a very rare autoimmune hepatitis diagnosis 15 years ago, she started to explore environmental toxins and their health impacts. As a practicing rheumatologist, she’d noticed increasing rates of autoimmune diseases in younger patients with no family history, suggesting environmental factors might be at play. Dr. Cohen (no relation!) became an expert in toxins and now help...
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Justis was an avid gamer who loved his friends and family. His parents seek to make his tragic passing meaningful and so we’ll listen to their warnings, as we delve into the potential health risks posed by wireless radiation from devices like cell phones and Wi-Fi routers. We’ll learn about some precautionary measures being embraced by other countries (not the US) to mitigate these risks, highlighting the discr...
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