Prediabetes, Borderline Diabetes and Exercise
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If you never exercise your body will become rancid, although some will swere they smell most rancid after they exercise. But, we are not talking odor here, we are talking rot – more specifically, a deterioration of tissue health. The mechanism’s of damage from NOT exercising are becoming clear. Yeah, right, you say, easy for you to say exercise, but we’re the fools who have to do it. Motivation, that’s the key. Unfortunately most of us have lost our key to motivation. ‘If you don’t exercise you’ll look like hell,’ doesn’t put a burr in my pants, I’ve always looked like hell. But the other day I did read something that did jar me and the cat off the couch. Read on to see what it was.
There is a bomb making factory in many of us generating road side combustables – systemic inflammation. This suicide bomber in you is called visceral fat. Visceral fat is the greasy globs of fat wrapped around your GUT, in addition to the greasy globs of bubble wrapping fat just below your skin. The bomber came in with all that rich food you’ve been throwing back. But he really got going when your activity died off. Exercise could have stopped it.
Now, here’s a kick, you can’t see systemic inflammation. You can see an infection, but not systemic inflammation. When it pops up out of the toaster, you’re chared. It smolders unnoticed until the damage shows up so late it’s hard to reverse. Closed arteries-atherosclerosis, memory loss and thinking problems-neurodegeneration, cancer-tumour growth, pre or diabetes-insulin resistance, and on and on.
o escape pre-diabetes, and pre everything else you have two choices: dump the bumps, or pump the stumps big time, both is better. Evidence suggests a huge benefit to regular exercise, don’t ya know.
Beneficial chemicals (enzymes) called myokines are released from contracting skeletal muscles during exercise. Enzymes are expeditors, go-to guys when you want to get something done. On occasion, these metabolic geeks can engineer glandular effects on visceral fat by adjusting themselves in such a way as to act like hormones. But, there’s a catch, each bout of exercise releases it’s load of myokines and that’s it. The anti-inflammatory effect caused by the beneficial chemicals is temporary and must be repeated for any meaningful effect. Visceral fat may be reduced by the injection of myokines from exercise though it’s hard to measure how much. The length and level of exercise will make a difference too.
Exercise increases your metabolic rate efficiency and helps in overall weight loss. Thus, pre-diabetics gain another benefit from exercise, the muscles exert a positive effect on the signalling pathways involved in fat oxidation, by releasing a slightly different myokine.
Humans are multicellular organisms, and like all other animals, are energy conserving entities. Movement is our only way of existing. We must find food, and escape being someone elses food. Our continuous motion was therefore factored in during the design phase of our construction. Many of our body parts depend upon movement, and find fullfilling their expected duties difficult without it. Blood can only return from our feet when we move, for the most part. Our bodies were constructed to expect, and depend upon motion to carry part of the load in manageing many of our functions. Move less and your body can do less for itself. That is why inactive people usually have poorer health. Use it or loose it, means your body looses its efficiency, and begins to gear down to what it can get by with until it finally begins to break down for real.
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