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The Shocking Science and Benefits of Taking a Simple Walk: Research From Oxford-Trained Neuroscientist Dr. Shane O’Mara

2023/7/31
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Mel Robbins：本期节目探讨了散步对身心健康、创造力和长寿的益处，并采访了都柏林三一学院实验脑研究教授Shane O’Mara博士。 Shane O’Mara博士：散步对健康有很多益处，包括增强韧性、促进创造性思维、构建认知地图、延缓衰老以及促进社交。散步能挑战大脑，促进大脑不同区域的活动，从而改善情绪，增强认知功能。此外，散步还能降低压力荷尔蒙水平，让人暂时逃离自我，从而改善情绪。在自然环境中散步，能让人与自然连接，进一步提升情绪。长期久坐会导致性格上的负面变化，而运动则能带来积极的大脑变化，改善记忆功能，延缓衰老。 不同类型的散步有不同的益处：健康散步、创造性散步和社交散步。创造性散步需要在不专注于问题的情况下进行，让大脑自由联想。 每天步行5000步以上，可以显著降低全因死亡率。 建议人们在一天中多次进行短时间的步行，而不是一次长时间的步行。 晚上散步有助于睡眠。 散步能改善情绪、增强认知能力、促进社交，并对身体其他器官系统也有益处。 快走更有利于心血管健康，慢走更有利于思考和创造。 Shane O’Mara: 步行对健康有很多益处，包括增强韧性、促进创造性思维、构建认知地图、延缓衰老以及促进社交。散步能挑战大脑，促进大脑不同区域的活动，从而改善情绪，增强认知功能。此外，散步还能降低压力荷尔蒙水平，让人暂时逃离自我，从而改善情绪。在自然环境中散步，能让人与自然连接，进一步提升情绪。长期久坐会导致性格上的负面变化，而运动则能带来积极的大脑变化，改善记忆功能，延缓衰老。 不同类型的散步有不同的益处：健康散步、创造性散步和社交散步。创造性散步需要在不专注于问题的情况下进行，让大脑自由联想。 每天步行5000步以上，可以显著降低全因死亡率。 建议人们在一天中多次进行短时间的步行，而不是一次长时间的步行。 晚上散步有助于睡眠。 散步能改善情绪、增强认知能力、促进社交，并对身体其他器官系统也有益处。 快走更有利于心血管健康，慢走更有利于思考和创造。

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Dr. Shane O'Mara explains his motivation for writing a book about the science of walking, emphasizing its importance and the surprising benefits it offers.
  • Walking helps build resilience and facilitates creative thinking.
  • The act of walking is good for building a cognitive map of the environment.
  • Walking supports cognitive function and helps resist the trajectory of decline associated with aging.

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In this episode, a renowned Oxford-trained neuroscientist teaches you the most incredibly simple, science-backed hack that will change every single part of your life in just 10 minutes.

 

Professor Shane O’Mara, academic writer, author, and Experimental Brain Researcher at Trinity College in Dublin, walks us through the mind-blowing research behind, of all things, walking.

 

You’ll be shocked to learn how the right kind of walking can lower depression and anxiety without medication.

 

Professor O’Mara explains 3 different types of walking: one way will boost your creativity, another will make you more productive, and a third way will make you a rockstar problem solver.

 

You’ll also learn about the incredible cognitive, mechanical, and physiological chain reaction that happens in your brain and body during a simple walk.

 

The research and neuroscience will empower you to use walking to help you:

 

  • Conquer your fears.
  • Make your brain younger.
  • Reduce your stress and feel happier.
  • Double the number of your creative ideas.
  • Be more focused and productive at work.
  • Turn off anxious thoughts.
  • Decrease inflammation in your body.
  • Improve your relationship with yourself and others.

 

 

If you’re short on time, bullshit. Put your earbuds in and get outside.

 

Are you ready? Hit play, and let’s walk.

 Xo, Mel

 

In this episode, you’ll learn:

 

05:29: Want a younger brain? Start moving.  

09:48: You won’t believe these benefits of a 10-minute walk. 

11:29: Is your environment working against you? 

16:28: Here’s how walking is just as good, if not better, than your antidepressant.

17:20: This is what happens when you get outside and into nature.

20:50: What the heck is a “walking mind”?

23:54: Walking makes you more creative if you do this.

31:34: Turn up your energy while you walk using this incredible metaphor.

32:56: The shocking study that explains how walking changes your personality.

36:07: Don’t have enough time for a walk? I call BS. Here’s why.

39:00: Professor O’Mara suggests your walking routine should look like this.

42:32: 5 easy ways to get in more steps every day.

47:03: This is why you want to make it a habit to walk at night.

52:06: Feel like you don’t belong? Here’s how walking can help.  

 

 

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