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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HairySmurf" data-source="post: 2681613" data-attributes="member: 583820">Indeed - it's the longer term impacts that make exercise of any type worthwhile.  Exercise reduces insulin resistance and depletes glycogen stores in muscle tissue, which helps to lower BG levels for a considerable period of time afterwards as the muscle tissue efficiently sponges up glucose to replenish glycogen stores.In Dr. David Cavan's book he states that for a Type 2, aerobic exercise will drop HbA1c by 8 mmol/mol, resistance training will drop it by 6 mmol/mol, and the two type combined will drop it by 9 mmol/mol.  He states that a minimum of 150 minutes of exercise per week is needed to see that level of improvement.  He doesn't give a reference for these numbers so I can't check which research he got those numbers from.</blockquote>

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