How exercise combats Heart Disease, Insulin Resistance and Diabetes

Introduction

It may surprise you to learn that getting fit won’t just help you lose much weight. It’ll help you do something far more important because it will help keep you alive, and just as important, it’ll help you thrive.

It is now becoming clear that the major diseases in the west are diseases of our lifestyles and our daily habits. This is because western diseases are diseases of affluence where there is plenty of food and fun and the work is not physically demanding. The good news is that because these diseases are caused by our lifestyle, they can be treated and prevented by our lifestyle too.

The problem is that most attempts to treat these illnesses through lifestyle stop us from having fun, and as trivial as that sounds, the way we have our fun is literally what is killing us. It is how we go about having fun, how we think of fun that’s the problem, not the fun itself.

It is how we go about having fun, How we think of fun that’s the problem, not the fun itself.

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Study the course

I want to show you ways to literally have your cake and eat it. To set targets to have fun every day and know that this is keeping you healthy not making you sick. First I want to show you directly how doing something as simple as getting fit really can prevent and treat serious illness.

To do this I have created a course that introduces you to the underlying processes that make being fit the best way to reduce your risk of heart disease, insulin resistance and diabetes while having a lot of fun at the same time.

The course shows you how being fit forces your body to manage its fuel sources well. Fuels in the body are like fuels we use elsewhere. Both electricity and petrol are dangerous if not handled correctly. So are the fuels our bodies use. Sugar is the fuel we’re going to focus on. Technically, it’s known as a carbohydrate, but for simplicity, because few people understand the term, we’ll stick to sugar.

You will discover that sugar is actually toxic to our bodies and can cause all sorts of damage. As a result, we have evolved mechanisms to prevent or repair this damage. As long as these mechanisms work correctly, we stay healthy. It’s when they don’t work correctly or stop working altogether that we get sick.

We’ll see how two major diseases, Diabetes type 2 (mellitus) and Heart disease, can both be treated or prevented simply by getting fit. Both diseases are related to bad sugar management within the body. Getting fit fixes sugar management and, with time, can help fix these diseases.

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