Everyone knows that exercise is beneficial to improving the “three highs”. Hypertension, high blood lipids, and control blood sugar.
Among them, high blood sugar is quite special. Even if you discover high blood pressure and high blood lipids a little late, they can still be reversed through exercise. Once high blood sugar develops into diabetes, it is too late and it cannot be reversed at present.
This is very troublesome in modern life. There is no medicine for regret, and once you are infected, you have to take medicine for the rest of your life.
What should I do then?
First, let me introduce the research results of experts:
Professor Frish once organized a large-scale research project involving 5,000 college student volunteers. His research tracked their life trajectories for decades and collected statistics on high blood sugar levels when they were 70 years old.
One group of volunteers had regular exercise habits, while the other group did not like exercise.
The research concluded that the risk of type 2 diabetes in people who do not like exercise is 3.4 times that of people who like exercise.
This is a very rare research conclusion at present.
Isn’t this nonsense? Who doesn’t know that controlling your diet and moving your legs are good for controlling blood sugar? !
Friends, it’s not that simple!
FIIT recommends: To address the risk of high blood sugar, it is recommended to participate in 150 minutes of moderate to high intensity exercise per week.
Please note: When it comes to exercise to control blood pressure and blood lipids, experts recommend moderate-intensity exercise, while controlling blood sugar requires medium to high intensity, and some experts even emphasize the need for high-intensity exercise.
The significance of this conclusion is that if you only exercise at the intensity of walking, it will have little effect on blood sugar.
Absorption of blood sugar
On the other hand, human muscles play a very important role in the absorption of blood sugar. Under the same insulin effect, muscles absorb more than 50% of blood sugar. For people with well-developed muscles, muscle absorption of blood sugar can even exceed 80%, which is also a very interesting phenomenon.
Judging from the results of human hormone measurements, people with well-developed muscles are very sensitive to insulin and only need to secrete a small amount of insulin to maintain their blood sugar at a reasonable level.
For people with uncontrolled blood sugar, the situation is just the opposite. No matter how much insulin is secreted, their blood sugar level will remain high, which is called insulin resistance .
Question: Based on the above information, can we confirm that high-intensity exercise to train muscles is beneficial for controlling blood sugar?
Q&A: It’s not that simple. Although these statistics show that people who exercise at a high intensity have a lower blood sugar risk, they cannot prove the causal relationship.
For example, people who regularly participate in moderate to high-intensity exercise generally have very regular diet and sleep. You cannot judge whether it is a healthy diet, adequate sleep, or developed muscles that affect their blood sugar.
Grow muscle
But in any case, if you insist on high-intensity exercise to grow muscle, then factors such as healthy diet and adequate sleep are necessary. It can be understood that high-intensity exercise to grow muscle, this whole process has a very high probability of improving blood sugar.
Question: That’s great. I will build muscles and use them to control my blood sugar and eliminate this major concern.
Q&A: I have said it many times, it is not easy to build muscles.
Question: Is there any medicine for muscle growth? I can’t train, but I can take medicine.
Q&A: Yes, but the situation is quite complicated.
The most direct one is clenbuterol . You will definitely gain weight if you take it, but do you dare to eat it?
There are also steroids and growth hormones used by professional bodybuilders . Although they are prescription drugs, they are classified as stimulants in the sports world. Do you dare to take them?
Question: What’s wrong with me taking some stimulants to keep my blood sugar safe?
Q&A: The combination of steroids and growth hormone can help you quickly grow to a body like that of Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger in just half a year.
However, you are different from these two. Stallone and Schwarzenegger only used a small amount of steroids back then. Drugs were only auxiliary. What was more important was the arduous and high-intensity training.
The latest professional muscle-building technology uses large-dose injections, so it only takes 3-6 months to quickly become a muscular man. Among all the “body miracles” of celebrities, these drugs are the effect -> what wrestling dad, Thor…
Unfortunately, these drugs, when used in large doses, can directly damage the liver and kidneys, rather than blood sugar. If you take stimulants, you could actually lose your life.
Question: Then I can learn from Stallone and use a small dose of steroids, that should be OK.
Q&A: You just need to learn Stallone’s ruthlessness in training muscles, and you don’t need to take medicine at all. More than 99.9% of people in China have no problem with their muscles, so why take medicine? It’s better not to hurt your kidneys than to hurt them less.
