Can Exercising and Sweating Lower Blood Sugar

Exercise sweating can play a certain effect on lowering blood sugar, but also need to be combined with diet, medication and other factors, it is recommended to regularly monitor blood sugar. Exercise therapy is one of the basic ways to treat diabetes, appropriate physical exercise can enhance the body’s sensitivity to insulin, accelerate the consumption and utilization of sugar, and then can achieve the purpose of controlling blood glucose, so exercise sweating can play a certain effect on lowering blood glucose. Generally recommended aerobic-based physical exercise, such as jogging, walking, swimming, jumping rope, etc., can be combined with anaerobic exercise, such as weight lifting, squatting legs, etc.; but if there are frequent hypoglycemic episodes, blood sugar fluctuations and other conditions of the patient, should not be over-exercise. Patients diagnosed with diabetes should standardize their treatment under the guidance of a doctor, and in addition to exercise, they also need to cooperate with dietary control as well as hypoglycemic drug therapy.