269. Does Walking Cause Inflammation? What You Need to Know to Walk for Improved Health

Some forms of exercise cause inflammation. When a listener wrote in, saying a friend told her walking was one of them, she wanted to know the truth. We’ll discuss how walking affects inflammation levels in our bodies, and how to best navigate walking for health!

 

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RESOURCES AND SOURCES (some links may be affiliate links)

WALKING AND INFLAMMATION

• Wellness While Walking Episode on Hormesis (Ep. 142)
• Wellness While Walking Episode on Struggling with Meditation (Ep. 8)
• Born to Walk: The Broken Promises of the Running Boom, and How to Slow Down and Get Healthy – One Step at a Time, Mark Sisson and Brad Kearns
• Exercise-induced myokines and their role in chronic diseases, nih.gov
• The Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Exercise: Mechanisms and Implications for the Prevention and Treatment of Diseases, nature.com
• Inflammatory Effects of High and Moderate Intensity Exercise—A Systematic Review, frontiersin.org

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