26/05/2025
Your sign to go for a walk today ⬆️🚶🏽♀️
Movement is a direct stimulus for your mitochondria (the energy factories inside your cells) that power everything from mood to metabolism.
Walking increases PGC-1α, a master regulator of mitochondrial biogenesis. That means more, healthier mitochondria to fuel your brain and buffer stress. It also elevates serotonin, norepinephrine, and BDNF (brain-derived neurotrophic factor), all of which support neuroplasticity, resilience, and emotional regulation.
At the same time, movement decreases cortisol, the body’s main stress hormone, by modulating the HPA (hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal) axis.
Your brain evolved for movement.
It solves problems best not in stillness, but in motion.
Start walking. It’s one of the most powerful forms of medicine we have.
