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Exercise and type 1 diabetes with Dr Michael Riddell

Inside Exercise

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The Effects of Exercise on Glucose Levels

If you do high intensity exercise, so whether you've got diabetes or not, you can actually have an increase in glucose. So it's a phenomenon that we think is linked to adrenaline. When you have this fight or flight response, adrenaline goes up and that really just squeezes glucose of the liver,. And adrenaline also limits a little bit the glucose uptake into the contracting muscle. In someone who doesn't have diabetes, it'll pop up for 15 minutes or 20 minutes then your body will secrete enough insulin to bring it back in check.

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