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Thinking is good for you.

xyzzy

xyzzy

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I have been very busy lately with work and having to do hours of "mental" exercise i.e problem solving and design tasks.

The effect on my BG's has been remarkably positive and after an afternoons heavy thinking I'm seeing my BG's end up nearly a whole 1mmol less than where I normally would be. Presumably the mere act of having to think hard is getting my brain to require more glucose to work with. I've also lost 2lbs in weight this week so as with my normal fat burning exercise routine (walking the dogs) maybe thinking is also a very efficient fat burner :lol:
 
xyzzy said:
I have been very busy lately with work and having to do hours of "mental" exercise i.e problem solving and design tasks.

The effect on my BG's has been remarkably positive and after an afternoons heavy thinking I'm seeing my BG's end up nearly a whole 1mmol less than where I normally would be. Presumably the mere act of having to think hard is getting my brain to require more glucose to work with. I've also lost 2lbs in weight this week so as with my normal fat burning exercise routine (walking the dogs) maybe thinking is also a very efficient fat burner :lol:
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This ties in with recent posts concerning Alzheimer's and diabetes Alzheimer's starting to be known as T3 diabetes.

The advice used to be to keep the brain active by learning languages , solving puzzles etc. Noone seemed to know why this was so but it seemed to work.
I suppose its giving the brain a good old workout or increasing its exercise.
Perhaps they younger we are when we begin the more effective this will be. Interesting.
 
This is interesting stuff... :think:

Now, can we combine this with exercise? By THINKING about EXERCISE??? :lol: Double-bubble mMol reading reduction!
 
Definitely good to keep the brain working :D
 
jessilyy said:
Exactly. It is the most important organ in the human body .
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Hmmmm. Not sure about that. There isn't much redunancy built into our mamallian anatomy. The failure of most "important" organs will lead to the failure of the whole organism. It's a system that relies on almost all of its component parts. Its not easy to say that any is more "important" than the others.
 
Patch said:
This is interesting stuff... :think:

Now, can we combine this with exercise? By THINKING about EXERCISE??? :lol: Double-bubble mMol reading reduction!
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I like your way of thinking :lol: Patch.
 
I've noticed this in the past. I work as a lighting designer. My work involves intense physical exertion rigging equipment, and then sitting and programming lighting effects at the control desk, usually to very tight time deadlines. A session of sitting and programming will always leave me with about a 1mmol lower BS than the physical stuff.
 
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