Healing Woods

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1EhsigHTd8/?mibextid=wwXIfr

https://youtu.be/MCUAxJ8YSus?si=PkEQrA9EfNxwqwjV

Your Body Is Obeying Your Beliefs. A Harvard Psychologist Has The Proof | Ellen Langer Watch episodes & bonus content ad-free on https://bialikbreakdown.s...

https://www.facebook.com/share/1BtiJHwNrA/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Your blood sugar is not just a sugar problem. It is also a storage problem.

Which means it is a muscle problem.

Every time you eat, the sugar in your food (doctors call it glucose) has to go somewhere. Picture your muscle as a big sink that soaks it up. Your skeletal muscle is the biggest sugar sink in your body. When a helper called insulin does its job, your muscle cells soak up roughly 70 to 80 percent of that sugar. But if you are eating a SAD diet, you may be consuming 300 grams of carbs a day, and if you layer that with inactivity, you are set up for a sugar problem. Here is the catch. For most people, the sink gets smaller as they get older.

A smaller sink holds less sugar. Research suggests this can start inside the muscle years before anyone is ever told they have a problem.

In a large study of more than 13,000 adults (NHANES III), people with more muscle relative to their body size tended to have lower insulin resistance and a lower risk of prediabetes or diabetes. I want to be careful here. That study shows the two things travel together. It does not prove one causes the other.

In people with type 2 diabetes, reviews of many studies show that exercising more than 150 minutes a week is linked to better blood sugar control than exercising 150 minutes or less. This is obvious. The BIGGEST takeaway.

Movement, regardless of body comp, improves insulin sensitivity.

Again, there is no such thing as healthy sedentary muscle.

This improvement is not just a side effect of losing fat.