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October 26, 2025 • 55 secs
Who would have thought HALF the excercise could still enxtend your life by a whopping 40% #TheMoreYouKnow šŸ˜‚
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And now another episode of Big Riggs, What the Dumb On.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Ninety eight Rock Gould a thunk. Right. For years, they've
told us the optimum amount of steps a day to
extend your life and give you a healthier life is
ten thousand steps a day. Now, that's obviously a lot
of steps, right, So they decided to do over the
last ten years a new study about people who walked
about half as much. They found the optimum number to

(00:26):
be four thousand steps a day. They said, with that number,
the average person's life over that ten year span, the
ones who did four thousand increased over the average by
forty percent. They said, now, look, if you're doing the
ten k, obviously you're going to get even bigger benefits
and you're going to extend your life even longer because
of your cardiovascular But they're like, if you want to

(00:47):
keep it within range and then a number that's not
so disappointing when you don't achieve it. Four thousands of
the magic number
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