After his 2020 prostate cancer surgery, weatherman and co-host Al Roker started walking as much as five miles a day at his doctor’s recommendation, he told colleagues at the TODAY show. But it wasn’t until 2022, that he realized how much his walking habit helped him.
Hospitalized for blood clots and gallbladder removal in 2022, Roker’s doctor told him “the physical condition I was in because of the walking—because of the cardio—that probably helped save my life,” he said on TODAY in January 2023.
