Practicing Crossfit can help better control type 2 diabetes

Crossfit functional training can be a great ally in the best management of type 2 diabetes.

This disease is characterized by the body does not produce enough insulin to counteract high blood sugar levels.

However, practicing this type of high intensity exercise could help to be more sensitive to insulin hormone and, therefore, blood glucose is better controlled.

This has been discovered by a study by a team from the Cleveland Research Institute, Ohio (USA) and that has seen the light in the Physiology Experimental Magazine.It has been analyzed for six weeks to 13 people from 53 years old who were overweight, obesity and type 2 diabetes. The group practiced crossfit in sessions of 8 to 20 minutes with a frequency of three days a week, and they wereThey performed glucose tolerance and blood test tolerance to know their effects.

Crossfit helped reduce fat mass, diastolic blood pressure, blood lipids and increased insulin sensitivity and basal fat oxidation

Less cardiovascular risk thanks to Crossfit

The findings revealed that thanks to this type of exercise the participants reduced the diastolic blood pressure, fat mass, blood lipids and increased the oxidation of basal fat and insulin sensitivity.All this reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease and improves the quality of life of patients with type 2 diabetes.

Exercise is for diabetics one of the pillars on which the control of their disease should be based, since it has been shown to improve the body's ability to control sugar levels, making the body more sensitive to insulin produced.However, these types of patients usually have a low adhesion to the advice related to physical activity, and usually tend to sedentary lifestyle, so Crossfit could be an interesting option to explore.

John Kirwan, author of the investigation, has stressed that this study has certain limitations, in terms of the low number of participants, their age, considered relatively young, the follow -up of only six weeks and the similarity with the results obtained with other typesof more conventional exercise.Therefore, he insists that precipitated conclusions cannot be drawn on the effects of Crossfit on diabetes, but takes the first step to continue investigating this relationship, which could be very useful for people with this glycemic disease, usually.