Knocking Out Prediabetes
Everyone can list a few benefits of regular exercise, and every once in while a new one pops up. The only problem is, it’s hard to get yourself to do it – exercise, I mean. If you don’t do such and such you’ll go hell, just doesn’t do it for me anymore. I’ve learned to live with looking like hell. If you don’t do this or that YOU’RE FIRED – now, that’s one that can put a spur in my butt. A new phrase that has put a spur in my side over the importance of regular exercise is if you don’t exercise your body will turn rancid. Don’t give me that look, I’m not being literal. The mechanism’s of damage, however, are not that far apart.
If you’re growing a gut, face it, you are not soft and cuddly anymore, you are a fatso. And, maybe worse, fatso to the bone. Visceral fat mass, that’s what you get when you are physically inactive and eat too many bad things. Visceral fat is greasy globs of fat wrapped around your gut surrounded by breasy globs of fat just under your skin. Lots of fat is bad, but visceral fat is the worst. Physical inactivity is even worse than overeating when it comes to accumulating visceral fat. Visceral fat is where all the action in when it comes to burning you down to the ground. Systemic inflammation, can put you into the ground.
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.
. To escape this mess, including reversing pre-diabetes, you have two choices, exercise, or loose weight big time, both is better. Evidence suggests a huge benefit to regular exercise.
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.
Pre-diabetics gain another benefit of exercise, the muscles exert a positive effect on the signalling pathways involved in fat oxidation, by releasing a slightly different myokine. In other words, exercise increases your metabolic rate efficiency and helps in overall weight loss.
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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