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Message: <blockquote data-quote="phoenix" data-source="post: 518169" data-attributes="member: 12578">As someone with T1/LADA I've always found exercise  to be  crucial in keeping insulin sensitive. I notice if I don't do it, insulin needs rise quickly. This was really noticeable when I lost a lot of my motivation last year ( lots of reasons family illness and being very hypothyroid)  There's no doubt that although I kept the same HbA1c, I was getting less insulin sensitive .I've been getting back to doing things more regularly and have really quickly found insulin needs decreasing  As I've mentioned in other posts,  I'm doing an online e diabetes course at the moment and this week is about exercise .  I found the results of this study really emphasised what  exercise can do for improving  insulin sensitivity . It wasn't in people with diabetes, it was in moderately overweight men.  Each column shows a measure of insulin sensitivity  The green column  (T)  Training :is men who were exercising   for about an hour or expending 600 calories per day the red column (D) diet:  is men  who were dieting and eating 600 calories per day less than they needed the blue column (T-iD)  is  men  who used up 600 calories a day exercising but who also were eating 600 calories a day extra (ie the amount of calories used in exercise was made up by extra food). the yellow column (C)  was a control , no exercise , no dieting and no extra calories.  As  you can see those that exercised showed a big  increase in insulin sensitivity, those that exercised and ate to compensate also had a rise in sensitivity  . Those  who were just dieting basically had no change in insulin sensitivity ..[ATTACH=full]4078[/ATTACH]  Interestingly though other studies seem to show that though some exercise is great, doubling it doesn't go anywhere near doubling the effectiveness. So marathon training not essential <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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