How much useful morning walker in high blood pressure and diabetes?
Taking a walk, I mean a BRISK walk, increases your heart rate and dilates your arteriole. The bottom line is the increase of blood circulation because of the increased demand of blood supply for the contracting muscles. The good thing is that all other organs such as brain, kidneys, liver, heart, lung, and hormonal glands, including pancreas also receive more blood supply during this brisk walk. Indirectly through increased blood circulation, more insulin is produced and transported from pancreas to other parts of the body and muscles in particular. So more insulin reaches muscle cells, Furthermore, exercise enhances the sensitivity of the insulin receptors on muscle cell membranes, and this encourage the transportation of glucose from the blood stream into the muscle cells. That’s why the blood glucose level drops after an exercise. During exercise, the blood pressure rises; fifteen minutes after the exercise, however, the blood pressure drops and becomes lower than before the exercis
