Your Daily Steps Hold a Life-or-Death Secret

Your Second Heart

Sayer Ji writes:

For more than a decade, I’ve been immersed in documenting the therapeutic potential of lifestyle practices. Through GreenMedInfo, I’ve curated over 1,000 peer-reviewed studies on exercise alone, spanning 280 distinct health conditions ranging from depression and dementia to diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and osteoporosis.1

The consistent message from this body of evidence is that exercise is medicine in the truest sense. Unlike pharmaceuticals, which typically act on one pathway at a time, exercise orchestrates a symphony of benefits across multiple systems simultaneously: lowering inflammation, improving vascular health, balancing hormones, supporting brain function, enhancing immunity, and so much more.

But while I knew exercise was a keystone for health, one mystery lingered. Why does walking—the most basic, natural, and low-intensity form of exercise—deliver such profound and wide-ranging effects? Why would simply accumulating steps rival high-intensity training or sophisticated interventions in protecting against chronic disease and premature death?

I did not have a satisfying answer—until now.

A Landmark Study and Its Simple Message

On August 4, 2025, epidemiologist Nicolas Hulscher, MPH, published a clear summary of a landmark Lancet Public Health meta-analysis:

Walking around 7,000 steps per day cuts the risk of dying from any cause by nearly half. It also significantly lowers the risks of cardiovascular disease, dementia, depression, diabetes, and cancer mortality.

This study pooled data from nearly a million participants across 24 cohorts worldwide—the most comprehensive analysis of step counts and health outcomes to date. The numbers were staggering:

  • 47% lower risk of all-cause mortality at ~7,000 steps/day compared with 2,000
  • 25% lower risk of developing cardiovascular disease
  • 47% lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease
  • 37% lower risk of cancer death
  • 14% lower risk of type 2 diabetes
  • 38% lower risk of dementia
  • 22% lower risk of depression
  • 28% lower risk of falls

The benefits started with as little as 3,000–4,000 steps and grew progressively stronger, plateauing around 7,000 for some outcomes but continuing toward 10,000 for others.

It was exactly the kind of validation public health officials have long sought: a clear, evidence-based threshold that people can understand and act upon.

But for me, it did more than affirm the importance of walking. It supports my ongoing thesis that the primary reason walking is so potent lies in a little-known physiological marvel—the soleus muscle, the “second heart you never knew you had.”

https://sayerji.substack.com/p/the-second-heart-you-never-knew-you

Psychiatry Destroying Creativity

Ernest Hemmingway

“What these shock doctors don’t know is about writers and such…What is the sense of ruining my head and erasing my memory, which is my capital, and putting me out of business? It was a brilliant cure but we lost the patient.”
—Ernest Hemingway Nobel Prize-winning author

Are You More Than 9 Meals Away From Starving?

I read an article from Jeff Thomas (if interested you can read it at http://www.321gold.com/editorials/thomas/thomas042316.html) wherein he writes, “After only nine missed meals, it’s not unlikely that we’d panic and be prepared to commit a crime to acquire food.“

Given the current declining levels of ethics, morality, civility and stability in society, there is an increasing chance of disruptions in the supply chain that would cause food shortages, to a greater or lesser degree.

Now, while I like to think that  if you knocked on my door in need of a feed, that I would be only too willing to welcome you to my table, obviously I do not have the resources to do that for everyone.

So I am asking you to start laying in some extras each week that might enable you to help your family and friends in a worst case scenario. That will take the load off my ability to help others.

This does not need to stretch your budget past breaking point.

As I write this, Coles have a half-price special on brown rice this week, $9.50 for 5 kilos.

They also have brown lentils for the regular price of $5.50 a kilo or red lentils for $4.20 a kilo. And several varieties of canned beans for $1.10 a 420 gram can.

Even if you only spend $5 or $10 a week to lay in a reserve supply of food you are gradually building a potentially life-saving increase in your survival potential.

Just as a further tip, get a glass or hard plastic container in which to store your 5 kilo plastic bag of rice. Otherwise rice weevils can eat through the plastic bag and you don’t want that sort of competition for your rice! LOL!

Dr Naomi Wolf At EU

Dr Naomi Wolf At EU

On Sept 06, 2025, the European Union listened to Dr. Naomi Wolf explain why you have noticed personality changes, emotional irregularity and a lack of critical thinking from people vaccinated with the mRNA COVID shot.

According to Wolf, the Pfizer papers reveal that the lipid nanoparticles inside the Pfizer mRNA vaccine are breaching the blood-brain barrier and attacking the frontal cortex of the brain, which is damaging people’s ability to retain memory, control their emotions, and utilize critical thinking.

https://x.com/WiretapMediaCa/status/1965409129524039837