Dr. Sue Varma

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1,488 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 23 Jun

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unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver · Train Your Brain To Thrive Through Menopause · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

What's the cancellation policy?

And I'm like, girl, just start walking, right?

Like that's free.

That doesn't take a lot.

So lower the entry barrier, lower the number of decisions that need to be made.

Because a big part of habits is this idea of identity formation.

Like, is this behavior a part of who I am?

And the easiest way to do that is just to start acting in a very small way.

If you're someone, let's say you live in an apartment building and climbing stairs is the only activity that you can do in the stairwell of your building, do it in your home.

If it's the five minute walk, anything that you can automate, even if it is very small and inconsequential to anybody else, just that idea that I walk after meals, that's the big thing I'm hearing is like the glucose spikes.

Right, the data around a 30 minute walk after dinner is like astounding.

Start there now because you will then be the walker in your mind.

And that is so important because, again, that identity formation.

So when I was talking about that, we want to take it out of the prefrontal cortex, which is, oh, my God, there are 100 steps involved.

I got to find out about the cancellation policy of the gym.

And if I go on vacation, you know, all of those micro details.

It is too much expenditure.

You want to make it in the simpler, more reptilian part of the brain, which is, let's just get this done.

There's no thinking involved.

And every time you take a step, there's a little bit of a dopamine surge.

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