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extra numbers of mitochondria within the cells. When there are more mitochondria, more energy is produced – 24 hours a day. Also, more energy is used because it requires a certain amount of energy to produce those energy reserves. Your metabolism becomes more active, more efficient and you burn off more fat, 24 hours a day! So when people tell you that they can’t exercise because they just don’t have the energy, you now know that they’re putting the cart before the horse. If you don’t create a need in the body for energy, your body will decrease its production of energy. Use it or lose it! Initiating and maintaining a REGULAR exercise routine is one of the very best ways to create more consistent energy on a day to day basis over a long period of time. And of particular interest to the type II diabetic is the phenomenon of exercise carrying glucose (blood sugar) into the cells. We’ve described the process of our cells becoming resistant to insulin during the development of type II diabetes as the body’s way of preventing blood glucose crashes (hypoglycemia). One way to help overcome this resistance to insulin is through strenuous exercise. This is another fact that’s well researched and proven by the professional body building community. Strenuous exercise depletes the glucose stores within the cells as it’s used up for energy, which creates a new energy demand. This demand itself overcomes the cells’ resistance temporarily and allows the insulin to carry the blood sugar out of the blood and into the cells where the need has been created. The blood sugar is decreased in a meaningful way, providing needed nutrition to the body’s tissues instead of simply neutralizing the glucose and making it unavailable as happens with blood sugar-reducing drugs like Glucophage. Exercise is preferred to Glucophage when possible because the way this drug brings down the blood sugar is by destroying it, making it not only disappear in the blood but also making it unavailable for normal nutrition and conversion into much needed energy that we can use for getting enough, life-giving exercise. What kind of exercise is best? There are basically three categories to consider:
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