04.13.06
Exercise..
Is the answer. Even if I feel like crap, I need to exercise more.
www.shdc.com.au recommend 1 hour a day. This is what they say…
Lack of exercise and poor nutrition are the biggest contributors to poor health.
Exercise works by increasing the sensitivity of insulin receptors so the insulin that is present works much more effectively and your body doesn’t need to produce as much.
Blood sugar is only the symptom in most diabetics; the real challenge is to control your insulin levels. Once the insulin levels are stabilized it is common for the blood sugar to come back to normal levels.
Most people, especially doctors, tend to not appreciate how powerful exercise is. However, I believe it needs to be viewed like a drug – you have to be very careful with the dose. If the dose is not high enough, it will not work.
One of the keys in using exercise to normalize insulin levels with secondary benefits of weight loss and normalization of blood sugars, is to make certain minimum thresholds are met. It is my experience that most people are not exercising enough.
Many people have told me they thought they were exercising enough when they were actually seriously under-dosed. This may be because many have not previously competed in an aerobic sport, which allows you to understand the feelings of "training" and how hard you have to push yourself to obtain aerobic and insulin benefits.
There are three important variables with exercise:
- Length of time
- Frequency
- Intensity
Assuming people can exercise, I encourage my patients to gradually increase the amount of time they are exercising to one hour per day.
Initially the frequency is daily. This is a treatment dose until they normalize their weight or insulin levels. Once normalized, they will only need exercise three to four times per week.
How the h*ll am I going to find an hour a day to exercise?? Geeps.
