Diabetes: Could a Ketogenic Diet Improve Benefits of Exercise?

Diabetes: Could a ketogenic diet improve benefits of exercise?

After feeding mice with high blood sugar a keto diet, which is high in fat and low in carbohydrates, researchers saw the diet lowered their blood sugar and improved their response to exercise.

Could a ketogenic diet improve benefits of exercise? - Health Care Today

The authors of this study explain that chronic high blood sugar can affect proper adaptation to aerobic exercise. People with high blood sugar may struggle to make improvements in peak oxygen consumption rate, which has to do with the highest level of oxygen the body can use in high-intensity exercise. Previous research from this group had shown that high blood sugar in mice “impairs aerobic adaptation.” They wanted to see if the ketogenic diet…