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Build Muscle To Manage Your Blood Sugar! | JJ Virgin #Shorts | Health, Diet & Weight Loss

24 Oct 2022 · 0 min

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A short YouTube clip (JJ Virgin #Shorts) advising that building muscle is an effective, fast way to improve blood sugar control. The speaker argues that increasing muscle mass provides storage for carbohydrates in muscle tissue rather than as body fat and helps restore insulin sensitivity, thereby improving blood sugar tolerance.

So how do you manage your blood sugar besides just diet? Well, one of the fastest way you can start getting better blood sugar control is through your muscles. So, number one, you want to build more muscle, because more muscle means more places to store carbohydrates as energy in your muscles rather than as fat on your body. And also, when you build muscle, it's the first place you can really start to restore that insulin sensitivity so you have better blood sugar tolerance.