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Diabetes and Exercise

Health Care Professionals often confuse what happens with exercise, and leave patients with little concrete information to work with.

Here are the simple facts:

  • Generally speaking, exercise magnifies the effect of insulin, and makes your blood sugar go lower than you expect
  • If you exercise when you still have a lot of active insulin on board (e.g. soon after a meal), then you will likely get low unless you reduce the dose you have when eating
  • If you do low-impact exercise, your blood sugars will gradually reduce
  • If you do medium-impact exercise, your blood sugars will reduce if you have active insulin. If not, your blood sugars may rise
  • If you do high-impact exercise close to your aerobic threshold, this can cause the release ofย adrenalinย which counter-acts insulin. This leads to HIGH blood sugars
  • If you do anaerobic exercise (weights, lifting, mowing the lawn etc) then your blood sugars can drop quite quickly
2019-10-15T05:46:38+00:00