A JOURNEY OF 3,200 MILES

America’s healthcare strategy should be focused on every person having the opportunity to live to his or her health potential, and encourage healthy lifestyles to prevent and reverse disease and optimize health.

Follow the 3,200 mile walk across America for health equity and a healthier America that began September 12, 2022, and continues for the second leg, August 29, 2023.
We hope YOU will support the walk! Together we can take a stand in helping to create a more just system where ALL Americans have the opportunity to be healthy!

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“The amount of risk and vulnerability one is willing to endure for a cause, is directly proportional to people’s willingness to open their hearts, their generosity, and their willingness to listen and be inspired. This method of non-violent, direct action, often “earns one the right to be heard,” from people I have just met.”

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Health equity is achieved when every person has the opportunity to “attain his or her full health potential” and no one is “disadvantaged from achieving this potential because of social position or other socially determined circumstances.” Health inequities are reflected in differences in length of life; quality of life; rates of disease, disability, and death; severity of disease; and access to treatment.

LOGISTICS OF WUHE

Every year, Dr. Dennis Godby, ND, will walk across the USA, one-fifth of the country, 2022-2026, ending in Seattle. The first leg of the walk (605 miles) was completed from Myrtle Beach, SC, to Knoxville, TN, October 10, 2022. The 2nd leg begins August 29, 2023 from Knoxville to Milwaukee, WI.
The walking route from town to town is the Google “walking” route, exactly as on the itinerary. Please see itinerary link above!
Communities along, or near the route, are encouraged to organize educational events on the day the walk passes through your town to promote your health equity cause. Event locations could include, but not limited to: schools, libraries, churches, medical offices, restaurants, or other places where people gather. Superintendents of schools are great contacts for helping the entire school district to be on board for school events in their districts. If you/group are walkers and would like to support the health equity cause by walking with Dr. Godby through any town from Knoxville to Milwaukee (see attached itinerary), please contact Dr. Godby at drgodby@therun.org, or 530-400-1385.
Dennis will be wearing reflective gear and a backpack, and will plan on camping overnight, unless other lodging is provided.
Each day’s walk takes approximately 8-9 hours, depending on the day’s scheduled distance, and the many conversations along the way. The average miles per day is about 24. The maximum on any day is 27 miles. Most days, the walk will begin about 8 am, and end about 4:30-5, depending on local events planned, and other unforeseen factors.
Contacting media (local and national) is essential through press releases, or phone calls to news rooms of local media.
Governors, legislators and mayors of towns, and elected officials ideally would ideally be contacted and “proclamations” of support from these governmental offices would be helpful.
Churches, temples, mosques, fraternal organizations, and other organizations are encouraged to be invited to host preventive medicine talks for their communities on the day WUHE is scheduled for their town.
Topics of community forums include, but not limited to: Vitamin D, access to safe drinking water, exercise, fitness, access to fruit and vegetables, nutrition, mental health issues, and safe neighborhoods. Your ideas are welcome!
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WHAT YOU CAN DO TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE FOR HEALTH EQUITY AND NATURAL MEDICINE!

  • Contact organizations: Churches, Fraternal organizations, like Rotary and and Lyon’s, Poor People's Campaign, Universities
  • Contact people you know along route in Tennessee (Knoxville); Kentucky (Lexington, Frankfort, Louisville); Indiana (Columbus, Franklin, Indianapolis, West Lafayette, Valparaiso); Illinois (Chicago); Wisconsin (Kenosha, Racine, Milwaukee). See attached route/itinerary.
  • Contact: FB groups involved in walking, running, health equity, Blacks/Hispanics for Health, etc.
  • Contact: Health Equity and Social Justice organizations on/near route and around the country
  • Contact: Health Professionals along the route and all 50 states to support
  • Contact: Nutritional supplement and lab companies involved with Naturopathic/Functional Medicine
  • Contact: Public Officials, Governors, Mayors, City Council, State and national legislators
  • Contact: Superintendent of Schools along the way who may want to host event/guest speaker in classroom
  • Event Coordinator: Organize events in town and cities, along the route, or just your town, on the day WUHE passes through
  • Graphics: Synthetic, reflective t-shirts, postcards, publicity materials; Social media; print campaigns
  • Handouts: Make healthy lifestyle educational handouts for WUHE website and for mass distribution
  • Logistical help on the route, walkers, scheduling, safety
  • Media: Contact local, regional national, and make press releases
  • Official Proclamations from mayors, governors, city councils for the day WUHE passes through
  • Social Media help: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.
  • Walk through towns on Knoxville-Milwaukee route and ask others to join.
  • Writers and editors.
  • Your ideas
All journeys begin with a single step. Tiny changes can build up to influential movements. You can learn more by following and “liking” us on Facebook or contact for more information: DrGodby@SacND.com.

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