Exercise after You Eat: Hitting the Postprandial Glucose Target

Melissa L Erickson; Nathan T Jenkins; Kevin K McCully

doi:10.3389/fendo.2017.00228

Exercise after You Eat: Hitting the Postprandial Glucose Target

Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2017 Sep 19:8:228. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2017.00228. eCollection 2017.

Authors

Melissa L Erickson¹, Nathan T Jenkins², Kevin K McCully²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pathobiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, United States.
² Department of Kinesiology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States.

Abstract

We discuss a novel hypothesis: the effect size of postmeal exercise for attenuating postprandial glucose will be a function of the exercise bout vs. the size of the postprandial glucose response, specifically peak and duration of the postprandial glucose excursion.

Keywords: continuous glucose monitoring; glycemic control; postmeal exercise; postprandial glucose; type 2 diabetes.