Tel Aviv: We know that exercise keeps blood levels normal in diabetics, but now another aspect of it is that high blood glucose levels affect the ability of patients to exercise themselves.
Regular exercise protects against damage to the arteries and tissues, high blood pressure and heart disease, if one suffers from pre-diabetes, type one or type two diabetes. It is now known that severe diabetes makes exercise difficult and does not bring the full benefits.
This is because of the high blood glucose level, the patient does not burn oxygen completely and the body itself becomes resistant to exercise. The study was conducted by the Jozlen Diabetes Center in Israel. They began to consider how high blood sugar interferes with exercise and how to reduce it.
According to a report published in the journal Diabetes, if exercisers take blood sugar-lowering drugs first, there may be more benefits to exercise because the body's metabolism begins to work better.
Research scientist Dr. Sarah J. Lessard says she wanted to know why some diabetics are unable to exercise despite their best efforts and the benefits are still incomplete. Understanding this condition can lead to better strategies for controlling diabetes.
For this, the mice were tested and fed a drug called cannagliflozin, which lowers blood sugar. The rats had high blood sugar and underwent exercise for six months. The other group of rats also had diabetes but were not given any medication. Now the mice that were given glucose-lowering drugs performed better in exercise.
The experts then examined the tissues and bones of the rats and tried to find a physical response to their ability to exercise less. It has been found that persistent high blood sugar can affect our muscles and impair our ability to exercise, and the good news is that we can somehow regain our ability to exercise by keeping our blood sugar levels normal.
Further research will be done in this regard at the next stage.
