Dr. Ben Bikman

But if this is like some 80-year-old grandma who just likes walking around with her girlfriends, just walk around with your girlfriends.

Keep doing that habit.

Whatever exercise you can do and you're going to do, then just do it.

But there is something to be said for timing it, where perhaps you can do your exercise session, if it is a walk around the block a few times with the gals, do that after your biggest meal.

where if you just do 10 to 15 minutes of physical activity after your biggest glucose spiking meal, you will blunt that glucose excursion by half, if not even better.

So what would have been a huge, big, long glucose spike and a commensurate insulin dose as well, you're going to cut that down substantially if you do time that little bit of physical activity.

And maybe that would be one other comment.

If that's not your main exercise, then have that kind of exercise snack.

where you had your big meal, hopefully it was lunch, go on a 10 or 15 minute walk.

Even those of us that, I'm a professor at a university, I can eat my lunch and still just go on a little walk around the campus.

My building is so big that in bad weather, I can walk around my building.

Even like around the hallways.

And so just find a way to get up and do something in little bits, little bits of activity throughout the day, but then still as much as a person can try to have that concentrated time of, all right, I'm working out right now and I'm going to sweat and I'm going to get tired from it.

Yeah.

Well, that's the place to do it.

Yeah.

In fact...

Every one you just mentioned works, frankly.

The one I like to talk about the most because the evidence is so compelling and it's so easy to get.

So berberine is undoubtedly effective.