The Claim
Twelve weeks of walking more than 10,000 steps per day significantly improves whole-body insulin sensitivity by 42.3% in sedentary adults with prediabetes, as measured by the Matsuda index, despite no significant changes in skeletal muscle mitochondrial proteins.
What the research says
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In sedentary adults with prediabetes, walking more than 10,000 steps daily for 12 weeks leads to a 42.3% improvement in how effectively the body uses insulin to regulate blood sugar, without altering levels of mitochondrial proteins in skeletal muscle.
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Twelve weeks of walking more than 10,000 steps per day significantly improves whole-body insulin sensitivity by 42.3% in sedentary adults with prediabetes, as measured by the Matsuda index, despite no significant changes in skeletal muscle mitochondrial proteins.
What the research says
1 studyStudy: High-intensity interval training improves insulin sensitivity in individuals with prediabetes.
The study found that people with prediabetes who walked more than 10,000 steps a day for 12 weeks became much better at using insulin to control blood sugar — exactly as the claim says — even though their muscle mitochondria didn’t change.
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