Trying to eliminate running BG LOWs and post run BG HIGHs

[Eric]

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Found it

These would be useful to start with:

How does my body fuel exercise?

How does my body fuel exercise? . It depends on the exercise! The body has 3 main fuel tanks it uses - glucose stored as muscle glycogen, fatty acids stored as triglycerides, and muscle protein (amino acids). (For this topic we are not discussing blood glucose as a fuel source because - while it is a fuel source - its supply is extremely limited and is does not provide very much fuel for an activity. See ==> how-far-you-can-go-on-blood-glucose-alone.) During low intensity exercise, fat meta…

The 3 energy pathways

Not much here on diabetes particularly, but just a background on energy pathways used during exercise which can be explored further in other topics. Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) is the immediate source of chemical energy for muscle contraction. Very little ATP is stored in the muscle cells. It can only power muscle contractions for a few seconds. It needs to constantly be replaced. When your body uses ATP, it loses a phosphate molecule, and it becomes Adenosine Diphosphate (ADP). In order for…