Hello everyone. Today I will answer an important question that I get asked all the time. Is this the cause of high blood sugar? Or why does blood sugar rise during exercise?
This is a common question, especially among Catholic patients or patients who are pushing hard and trying to get their heart rate up to do some intense exercise or increase the intensity of the exercise. They end up finding themselves with high blood sugar. People started noticing this when they started using GMS and Libre Dexcom and this became a common question. So I am Dr. Ahmet Ergin. I am an endocrinologist working in Florida today. We are reviewing the causes of high blood sugar when exercising, so let’s get started. Today we are mainly talking about why your blood sugar rises when you exercise well, a few things you need to know about some
hormones other than insulin. That deals with blood sugar levels. Now, what are the other hormones? We have cortisol, right? We have adrenaline.
These are the two main stress hormones that are incompatible with insulin. It doesn’t mean they don’t agree. They were made for a reason. The function of cortisol is to provide glucose to your body in times of stress, because you may not find food. It is not easily available to you. Your body doesn’t really know that, and the Himalayas and mountain climbing versus being in the gym in comfortable conditioning. You know you’re just trying to get something going , you know, some exercise.
So your body is trying to deliver this cortisol to you to make sure you don’t run out of sugar. Now, when insulin resistant, the core dissolves, doubles or triples. And then, the weak insulin that’s trying to catch up may not be able to do as well just because there’s too much cortisol in your body. Your muscles are eating and trying to eat too much sugar. And your body is trying to, you know, create a stress response. If your body is producing more sugar than your muscles are taking in, you’ll end up with a flood of glucose coming from your liver,mainly due to gluconeogenesis. Because of this cortisol. The same thing happens with adrenaline. Again, Adline is the fight- or-flight response. With exercise, you can. Your body doesn’t know if you’re running away from a lion, or if you’re just running for fun. So, in any case, you are creating a lot of adrenaline. Now, the problem is adrenaline and cortisol. When they get together, they become a badass team. They can really make a difference there as a result, when you’re at the gym or doing something outside, and you’re
under stress under the sun or something.
Sometimes this leads to anything that causes stress. You’ll see a result after using a finger stick, or if you’re just monitoring your blood sugar on a continuous diabetes monitor, you’ll see your blood sugar go up unless it was kind of on the
very low side to begin with. But it tends to go up, especially with high-intensity exercise. Same thing with growth, growth hormone. The hormone also kicks in, which is good in the long run, because its growth will help your body burn fat in the long run. But in the short term, you know, during acute stress, and even growth, your body will create and really raise your blood sugar and so you guys, I hope that helps. The good thing is, after all, stress makes your bodies learn how to deal with stress, right? These short bouts of
stress on your body are a good thing. But chronic stress isn’t a good thing, right? The short period of stress teaches your body to prepare for the future. So now your body will handle your blood sugar better. After a few hours, you will notice that your blood sugar drops. Now, actually, you should be watching for low blood sugar, especially if you’re taking certain medications like insulin or insulin-producing agents , you may have to monitor your sugar.
In your blood on the road and the effect of this exercise can last for 24 hours. So you have to be careful about that, like some people do, he says my blood sugar is two hundred and fifty I wouldn’t worry about it he already knows that. You may find yourself hitting fifteen
within a few hours. Guys, I hope this helped you. If so, please click on the notification icon to get the new update of the post.
