The Fitness and Strength experiment will be one of the most important and challenging experiments in your entire journey.  Important, because exercise of all kinds is the best medicine known to mankind.  Challenging because doing it, and doing it at the right level requires effort and consistency.  We probably spend about half of our time with patients discussing this topic. 

 

Your muscles are the primary organ in your body that consumes glucose.  Thus, if you build up your muscles, you will have a more efficient and powerful organ to consume the glucose and improve your insulin sensitivity.  You build your muscle primarily with resistance training like weightlifting.

 

But fitness activities like running or biking may be even more important.  If you do regular fitness activities, not only will you burn fat-which improves insulin sensitivity-but you will improve your fitness level which has a direct impact on metabolism.