Paul Saladino· MD
Is vigorous 10x better for diabetes?
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Is vigorous 10x better for diabetes?
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Vigorous intensity physical activity is 4–10x more effective than moderate activity for reducing the risk of major chronic diseases.
I've seen I know that um there's been a couple of studies showing that vigorous intensity activity, you can do like 15 minutes of vigorous intensity activity and that's equivalent to like 45 minutes of moderate intensity in terms of um glucose regulation. I would say there's even other studies out there showing like a 1:5 ratio as well. But this study itself, if we're talking about outcome, not just biomarker data, we're talking about outcomes, we're talking about new diagnosis of diabetes, it suggested a 1:10 ratio almost. It was 9.4, but almost 1:10.
for diabetes prevention, it was nearly an hour and a half. So 94 minutes of light activity was equal to 1 minute of vigorous uh intensity activity for the cardiovascular disease outcomes.
the new diagnosis of type two diabetes was very profound right here we're talking about almost vigorous intensity was almost 10 times as effective right that's big