Courtney Conley

Yes.

I always say it's the most underrated, underutilized, easily accessible activity that most of us are not doing.

If you think about – if you look at the research on average step count that most people globally are taking, it's about 45 to 4,900.

Okay?

Which means that there's a lot of us that are taking less than that.

So when I'm working with my patients, we always look at baseline numbers.

What's your baseline?

So, for example, if you had a person who was walking 2,500 steps a day, I mean, some of us would be like, wow, that's not a lot.

But for a lot of us, it is.

If you were to walk an additional 500 steps in a day, your baseline is 2,500, you can reduce your risk of cardiovascular mortality by 7%.

Here's a bigger wow.

If you have a 1,000-step increase, you can reduce your risk of all-cause mortality by 15%.

All-cause mortality.

15%.

That's a big number for 1,000 steps.

So I have a story for you.

This is a patient of mine, and it just, you know, warms my heart to talk about him because when I saw him, he was two years into a diagnosis of heel pain, 27 years old.

So he had gone to see a bunch of people, and the last doctor that he had seen told him to limit his step count to 2,500 steps a day.

to rest, to rest the foot.

Now this is chronic pain.