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Doing THIS Simple Thing Will Improve Your Blood Sugar and Focus with Dhru Purohit

Dhru Purohit Show

Dhru Purohit

Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.73.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and BiOptimizers. ​​Want to know a simple way to improve your insulin sensitivity, fasting insulin, and HbA1c that you can start doing today? Sit for one hour less per day—just one hour less! This is something anyone can do. I know that doesn’t sound like much, but according to a recent study, reducing sedentary time by just one hour per day can have remarkable benefits for your metabolic health. Our modern-day sedentary lifestyle puts us at risk for blood sugar imbalances, weight gain, and chronic disease. But the good news is that you don’t need to do hardcore workouts or hit the gym for hours on end to get the benefits of movement. Breaking up the time you spend sitting with simple movement throughout the day can be enough to make a significant impact on your metabolic lab markers. Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru shares the findings from a recent study that our friend Chris Kresser brought to his attention. He also gives us practical tips on how to easily incorporate more movement into your daily life. Also mentioned in this episode: -Try This: A Study Shows How a Little Movement Can Make a Big Difference for Your Metabolic Health  -Try This: Walk Your Way into Optimal Physical and Mental Health -Walking More Will Radically Improve Your Health, Here's How!  -A Practice to Feel Refreshed, Revived, and Refocused  -A Super-Simple Hack to Optimize Your Blood Sugar This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and BiOptimizers. InsideTracker provides detailed nutrition and lifestyle guidance based on your individual needs. Right now, they’re offering my podcast community 20% off. Just go to insidetracker.com/DHRU to get your discount and try it out for yourself. Magnesium Breakthrough from BiOptimizers really stands out from the other magnesium supplements out there. It contains 7 different forms of magnesium, which all have different functions in the body. There isn't anything else like it on the market. BiOptimizers is offering my community 10% off, just head over to magbreakthrough.com/dhru with code DHRU10. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi everyone, Drew Prod here.

0:03.1

Today we're gonna be talking about something so freaking crazy simple that you couldn't

0:08.4

even imagine that it could have that much of a difference on your health.

0:12.2

And it actually does.

0:14.4

What are we talking about here?

0:15.6

We're talking about what the heck happens when you sit for one less hour per day.

0:23.7

That's it.

0:24.7

Just one less hour a day.

0:27.2

So if you normally sit, let's say six hours a day, total sitting time in the office chair,

0:33.2

on the couch, in the car, what happens if you just sit for five hours instead of six hours?

0:40.2

That's simple.

0:41.2

You can do that.

0:42.2

I can do that.

0:43.2

Anybody can do that.

0:44.2

And the thing is, why would you be interested in sitting for just one less hour a day?

0:50.0

I'll tell you why.

0:51.6

If you care about your metabolic health, if you want to improve your insulin sensitivity

0:56.6

which by the way, many doctors on my podcast previously have come on and said there was one

1:02.2

test they would have.

1:03.2

If they could only order one test, and obviously they can't, it's just a game kind of like a

1:08.7

hypothetical that we play sometimes to put priority on things.

1:12.9

If there was one test, they could order that test would be fasting insulin because it's

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