Muscles: The Role in Regulating Blood Sugar

Muscles are essential for strength and flexibility.

But did you know that muscles play a vital role in regulating your blood sugar?

Let us unpack the reason why.

Your body converts the food you consume into energy as sugar.

Your body stores this sugar in three locations before converting it into stored fat. The blood, the liver and your muscles.

The math matters.

In your blood, you can store approximately five grams. In your liver, about ninety grams. You can find anywhere from thirty to sixty grams in your muscles.

What bpthers the human body is excess blood sugar. Excess blood sugar travels everywhere in your body, acting like rust, damaging nerve endings and cells.

So if your sugar were to be stored in your liver or muscles instead of your blood, that would be welcome.

That is why muscles play a vital role. They soak in excess, lowering your blood sugar.

The more the muscles you have, the more they can soak in blood sugar.

The actual amount of sugar in the blood is fairly small at five grams. Five grams of sugar translates into 5.5 mmol/L of blood, which is the upper end of the desired blood sugar. At six grams, it is already becoming too much.

Yes, one gram of extra sugar in the blood is too much.

Imagine being able to soak in thirty grams or sixty grams depending on the size of your muscles.

You can see how you can dramatically impact blood sugar by building more muscle. Not to mention the strength and endurance you would build alongside.

Your energy balance, also known as metabolism, is easily the most important attribute in your body.

Understanding how your energy system works is the human equivalent of understanding how we could not be alive with the sun in our solar system.

Build muscle, it reduces excess blood sugar. Build it slowly within your capacity.

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