Glucose uptake into skeletal muscle is proportional to exercise intensity

MEME

💡Part of the reason any (!) high intensity exercise is so important for your health is that it keeps your blood sugar levels under control.

🧬It does that by shuttling glucose from the circulation into your muscles - independently from insulin.

💉That's also why exercise is so important in the prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes and obesity.

☝🏼Check out our recent post on GLUT4, muscle contractions and glucose uptake for more infos on the topic.

Reference

Rose AJ et al., Skeletal muscle glucose uptake during exercise: How is it regulated? Physiology 2005.

https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/physiol.00012.2005?rfr_dat=cr_pub++0pubmed&url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org

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