Your Body Has a Built-In Blood Sugar Sponge. It's in Your Calf.
Can you lower your blood sugar while sitting? It turns out there’s a small muscle in your calf that may let you do exactly that, and almost no one has heard of it. In this episode I break down the soleus push-up, a seated movement that helped blunt after-meal blood sugar spikes by up to 52 percent in early research.
Most of us sit for ten or more hours a day, and we’ve all been told the fix is to stand up and walk. That works, but it isn’t always realistic in the middle of a workday. What the research on the soleus muscle shows is something different and a little surprising: this one muscle…
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