Dr. Vonda Wright

Muscle is a critical vehicle for pulling glucose out of the blood, turning it into the energy our body needs.

often to contract the very muscle where it's made.

So you can think of it as a glucose sink, as an energy sink for our body, which is critical, right?

The more muscle you have, the more efficient you are at doing that.

Well, I'm sure you've spoken many times about the roles of high blood sugar in the body.

And at a very, very simple level, it's like we're barbecuing our body from the inside out, where high blood sugar causes this chronic inflammation in our body, which is the cause of many chronic diseases, which is high inflammation.

Sugar causes an internal process that produces these substances called AGEs, which literally I think of it as an internal barbecue.

It's crystallizing inside of our body.

No, it doesn't sound good.

It doesn't feel good.

High inflammation is one of the reasons people get joint pain, frozen shoulder.

One of the reasons we have the highly inflamed process of unchecked diabetes.

I mean, all these things work together.

And muscle is critical for helping control that glucose balance because when there's too much circulating, it is stored in fat.

There's only so much our liver can store, about 2,000 calories worth.

And then the rest of it has to be stored somewhere.

And I'm going to tell you for sure that I find...

In joints where we shouldn't have this, because I'm an arthroscopist, fatty stores.

It's like putting fat into the closets because there's nowhere else to put it.

We have so much excess energy.