Extreme Benefits For Diabetics After Just One Session Of Exercise
Just one session of exercise can alter fat metabolism in the muscle and help prevent the development of type 2 diabetes. If that isn’t enough incentive, I don’t know what would be. Just one lil’ ol’ tiny exercise session can keep you on the right side of diabetes. You want to know how it works… read on…
In muscle cells, fatty acids can be burned for energy, and they also can be stored as intramuscular triglyceride, or IMTG. IMTG is a reservoir for fat storage, and high IMTG levels correlate with insulin resistance in obese people and those with type 2 diabetes. Partly because of this correlation, many researchers assumed IMTG is somehow involved in the development of insulin resistance. Yet, people who exercise regularly also have high IMTG levels, but they are actually very sensitive to insulin.
You got all that? So how can you have both high intramuscular triglyceride and improved insulin sensitivity? My first thought was that it seemed almost backwards in theory, but upon further study, because we all know how compulsive I am, it does fit physiologically.
…that increasing the capacity for fat storage in muscle after one session of exercise can actually increase insulin sensitivity… several hours after exercise more fatty acids entering the muscle will be stored as IMTG, thus keeping them from turning into more harmful metabolites that are known to cause insulin resistance. Essentially, this means that exercise may cause you to store more fat in your muscles, but in doing so your insulin sensitivity improves.
Getting your daily exercise is important even more than ever. Take it from a type 2 diabetic, physical exercise makes a huge difference in blood sugars and if you can combat the disease all together, go for it!
via Science Daily
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