Improve your Metabolic Health By Doing This One Thing After Every Meal
It’s the little things we do on a day-to-day basis that fans the fire of our metabolism.
We all know exercise is important and it’s many health benefits — including activating a sluggish metabolism.
Perhaps it’s natural for most people to walk after a meal — especially a substantial one. It’s beneficial for your health and a convenient method of eliminating that somewhat ‘heavy feeling’ you might sometimes experience.
Everyone’s metabolic profile is different, and its proficiency is due to our genetics, the activity we regularly engage in, and other things like age, sex and what we eat.
It’s easy to spot those who have a pretty good metabolism. You can’t miss them, as they have more energy and sharp memory.
These lucky people are more likely to burn more fat and maintain a healthy weight naturally (among other things).
You’ve spotted several people in your life that fit this profile — and perhaps you believe that could never happen to you!
One very significant indicator of metabolic health is processing glucose effectively.
That’s the sugar hitting your bloodstream, which comes from all the different food sources you eat daily.
Carbs tend to raise our blood sugar quite substantially.
Maintaining a stable glucose level is suitable for the short term, like bypassing energy crashes after meals. However, over the long term, our metabolism can help us avoid becoming part of chronic health statistics.
Ideally, you choose foods that are low (or do not contain) refined carbs or sugar daily.
These food sources cause far too much damage to our moods and can lead to disease. On the other hand, exercise can help us get that glucose from the bloodstream and use it for energy.
This is the most important thing you could read.
Exercise is the one thing that helps us use that glucose positively — the way it should, in my opinion, at least!
The simple art of taking a short walk after your meal can immediately blunt that glucose spike while lowering insulin levels.
We want to prevent our bodies from making more glucose than they can handle. All this provides a beneficial long-term environment for simple metabolic health.
The young and old can do this one simple thing to balance insulin and eliminate the chances of glucose spikes.
Why you should never stop exercising
To ensure you aren’t a statistic for disease, following a healthy diet and exercise regime for life is more important than anything else you could do.
Think of all the benefits — including having a better quality of life, seeing your kids grow up and perhaps being of service to your whole family for as much time as possible.
When you exercise, your muscles become more and more efficient at absorbing glucose. As a result, the heart works in sync to pump more glucose-containing blood to your muscles.
With all of that going on, every time you exercise, you work your body hard and give it all the energy it requires during the workout and down goes those blood glucose levels.
Even more beneficial, though, is that exercise allows muscles to absorb glucose without insulin.
We must ensure our insulin levels are controlled as much as possible to stay healthy.
Constantly increasing insulin can lead to resistance (perhaps not for a while, but it will eventually catch up with you).
When is the best time to take a walk?
Healthy people can get away with waiting up to six hours after food to exercise. Thirty minutes of cardio is enough to decrease glucose and insulin levels.
Standing up after a meal is beneficial, or moving around immediately after food.
Even if you don’t have 30 minutes to walk after every meal, try being active in any way you can.
For example, people usually only have one meal when working, so perhaps use that as part of your lunch break to move around.
All in all, any amount of movement will help you, so add those different instances during the day whilst sticking with your scheduled workouts too.
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