Walking Briskly Acts Like an Insulin Shot

If you are like me, you may be curious, maybe at times skeptical, of certain lifestyle recommendations made by health authorities. It may not be enough for you to hear from a health expert that walking helps with diabetes because you don’t see the correlation between those two concepts. And that’s why, at the risk of becoming too technical, I try to explain my clients at times the mechanisms of our marvelous body.

 

In my last blog I was talking about how walking briskly almost every day of the week clears the blood of glucose by stimulating GLUT-4 transporters inside the cell to come to the cell’s surface and wolfed glucose down. And because walking is so important to the diabetic patient, today I want to expand on this mechanism.

 

Walking not only gets the GLUT-4 transporters to come to the surface and gulp down glucose, but it also increases the number of GLUT-4 transporters. So, guess what, the more you walk, the more GLUT-4 transporters your body makes. The result is that more transporters come to the surface of the cell to take glucose inside; this translates into less medication needed.

 

I hope this “simple” explanation was not too technical and convinces diabetic patients that walking is 50% of the treatment to prevent diabetes from getting out of control and in certain cases to reverse it.

 

And by the way, this same mechanism works for people without diabetes or who are at the verge of becoming diabetic, so you may want to use it as a prevention measure.

 

Hope you have a wonderful and healthy day,

 

Emilia Klapp
http://www.MediterraneanDietfortheHeart.com