Studies have shown just two days of physical inactivity can have very detrimental effects on your body and health. According to the study performed at the University of Missouri, just two days of not exercising is enough to affect your body's efficient use of insulin, which can lead to diabetes and other related diseases. Researchers conducted a study on rats and found insulin sensitivity decreased the longer the rats stayed inactive.
Researchers conducted a study on rats and found insulin sensitivity decreased the longer the rats stayed inactive. The rats were allowed to run on a wheel for 3 weeks. After that time, the rats were stopped from running. Just two days after the rats stopped running, the amount of sugar absorbed into their muscles in response to insulin decreased by about one-third. The findings were discussed and the results were astonishing.
Researcher David Kump said, "Insulin works by taking glucose, or blood sugar, out of the blood stream and into the muscle to be used for energy. The less efficient your insulin is the greater risk you have of diabetes, heart disease, obesity and hypertension." Kump also added, "Everyone is looking at the benefits of exercise, but we are looking at the consequences of stopping that exercise. People already know that exercise is good for them. This shows that, within a very short time frame of inactivity, the insulin does not work as well and might have negative effects."
This study is important for several reasons. First, it has been obvious for a long time that exercise is good for you and your body. I don't think you really need a research study to tell you that. It is obvious. Sometimes looking at something with a little common sense and logic goes a long way. For example, did we really need research to know cigarettes were not good for us and could make us sick? Yeah, big tobacco companies lied, but did you really believe inhaling a burning weed for many years wasn't going to do something bad to your body? If you didn't, than you were in denial. And of course many people are until they get seriously ill.
Anyway, it's nice to have hard-core black-and-white proof. Especially when the results are so dramatic and can be so life changing. What I also like about this study is that it shows the consequences of not exercising. There is no doubt in my mind - exercising makes you healthier and live longer. I also have no doubt that if you do not exercise - it will cause diseases such as diabetes and heart disease (and probably many more they just haven't proven yet) and shorten your life.
This also refers to pain. Many people think that to get rid of back pain, you can just go exercise it away. This is just nonsense. If you have a herniated or bulging disc in your spine, exercise can and many times does injure it more. Once you get the disc fixed with spinal decompression, then you can go and exercise it to strengthen the area. But this does not work the other way around.
I have had thousands of patients finally get out of pain with proper spinal decompression therapy and chiropractic care. They then start an exercise program and feel years younger. Some lose many pounds because they can finally exercise without pain or further injuring their body. And with this new study, it is obvious these patients are not only looking and feeling better, they are healthier and adding many years to their lives. It's also obvious, if you are not exercising regularly, those years are being stolen from you as you are reading this article.
Researchers conducted a study on rats and found insulin sensitivity decreased the longer the rats stayed inactive. The rats were allowed to run on a wheel for 3 weeks. After that time, the rats were stopped from running. Just two days after the rats stopped running, the amount of sugar absorbed into their muscles in response to insulin decreased by about one-third. The findings were discussed and the results were astonishing.
Researcher David Kump said, "Insulin works by taking glucose, or blood sugar, out of the blood stream and into the muscle to be used for energy. The less efficient your insulin is the greater risk you have of diabetes, heart disease, obesity and hypertension." Kump also added, "Everyone is looking at the benefits of exercise, but we are looking at the consequences of stopping that exercise. People already know that exercise is good for them. This shows that, within a very short time frame of inactivity, the insulin does not work as well and might have negative effects."
This study is important for several reasons. First, it has been obvious for a long time that exercise is good for you and your body. I don't think you really need a research study to tell you that. It is obvious. Sometimes looking at something with a little common sense and logic goes a long way. For example, did we really need research to know cigarettes were not good for us and could make us sick? Yeah, big tobacco companies lied, but did you really believe inhaling a burning weed for many years wasn't going to do something bad to your body? If you didn't, than you were in denial. And of course many people are until they get seriously ill.
Anyway, it's nice to have hard-core black-and-white proof. Especially when the results are so dramatic and can be so life changing. What I also like about this study is that it shows the consequences of not exercising. There is no doubt in my mind - exercising makes you healthier and live longer. I also have no doubt that if you do not exercise - it will cause diseases such as diabetes and heart disease (and probably many more they just haven't proven yet) and shorten your life.
This also refers to pain. Many people think that to get rid of back pain, you can just go exercise it away. This is just nonsense. If you have a herniated or bulging disc in your spine, exercise can and many times does injure it more. Once you get the disc fixed with spinal decompression, then you can go and exercise it to strengthen the area. But this does not work the other way around.
I have had thousands of patients finally get out of pain with proper spinal decompression therapy and chiropractic care. They then start an exercise program and feel years younger. Some lose many pounds because they can finally exercise without pain or further injuring their body. And with this new study, it is obvious these patients are not only looking and feeling better, they are healthier and adding many years to their lives. It's also obvious, if you are not exercising regularly, those years are being stolen from you as you are reading this article.
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