Books
Before bed, I spend about 10 - 15 minutes reading a book on my Kindle. It helps my brain settle down. I've read so many books over the years that I decided to start keeping track of what I've read. This is the ongoing list:
Build Muscle for Better Health Blood Sugar Control
The next step in making a significant improvement in how you feel is to get up, get moving, build muscle. Muscle helps regulate blood sugar by absorbing glucose from the blood. This results in lower amounts of insulin needed to remove glucose from the blood. I never quite got why exercise was always suggested to help lower blood sugar until one day I read how building muscle helps remove sugar from the blood. That was definitely a light bulb moment. The more muscle you have, the less glucose floating through the blood causing damage to the body and the less insulin that needs to be produced to remove the glucose. Exercise releases feel good chemicals like serotonin in the brain which improves mood. Exercise increases heart rate which improves blood flow to the brain, increasing oxygen to the brain which improves memory and helps reduce inflammation. Muscle burns more calories than fat. Muscle also burns calories long after you are done exercising. Exercise also helps improve sleep whic...
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