How much walking can boost your brain? See what movement triggers

Walking can help keep your heart healthy and strong. It’s also good for your brain.

Research has shown that walking briskly for two hours every week can help boost a person’s mood and reduce symptoms of stress, depression and anxiety.

That’s because walking, like other forms of exercise, triggers the release of dopamine and other feel-good chemicals in the brain, according to University of Miami psychiatrist Dr. Dante Durand, also chief medical officer at Jackson Behavioral Health Hospital in Miami…

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