Hello and we're welcome to Zoe Recap, where each week we find the best bits from one of our

podcast episodes to help you improve your health. Today we're taking control of our blood sugar and we'll dive into a conversation with

professor of human physiology, have Yagansamas. He explains which exercises

can reduce your blood sugar spikes and dips,

which will have a positive impact on your long-term health.

And don't worry, you don't have to become an Olympic weightlifter to do it. It's probably worth considering exercise in three main phases. So one is what happens to our blood sugars during exercise,

what happens to our blood sugars immediately after exercise,

and then what happens if we've done training,

so if you've done months and months of exercise how does that affect our body in a way that we can control our blood sugar levels.

So if we start with the first one during exercise,

when we start any form of exercise, our muscles are increasing the amount of energy that they're using.

So they need energy to continue the exercise.

And a large amount of that energy will be coming from the sugar in the blood.

So the muscles will start taking up more sugar out of the bloodstream.

And so logically you can immediately imagine that that's going to help control our blood sugar levels.

It's a slightly more complicated picture in that our liver will also start producing more sugar to try and provide more fuel to the muscle.

But if we do that out of exercise after we've eaten a meal, then compared to just

resting, it will tend to lower our blood sugar levels quite dramatically actually

So it's quite a potent effect and actually there's some really interesting recent research showing that really light intensity

exercise are basically fidgeting and moving your knee up and down.

They were calling it Salaeus press-ups which is the muscle in our in our carves.

Just if you imagine bobbing your knee up and down, doing that after eating a meal,

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