Exercise: The New Sugar Spike
HIIT and strength training elevate blood sugar, challenging conventional health narratives. Ignorance is no longer bliss.
The fitness industry’s endless pursuit of "optimisation" has a hidden cost. Intense workouts, lauded for their benefits, can paradoxically trigger blood sugar spikes, mirroring the very issues they claim to combat. This inconvenient truth reveals a myopic focus on performance over holistic well-being. We’re told to push harder, yet few understand the physiological aftermath. Is health truly being served when the metrics we chase introduce new complexities?
Temporary blood sugar increases post-exercise are a normal, adaptive response, not a pathology. The body prepares for recovery and repair, a vital process. Conflating this with chronic metabolic dysfunction is alarmist and unhelpful.
- ·Fitness blind spots
- ·Metabolic literacy
- ·Workout efficacy