Event highlights early action on diabetes and importance of muscle strength in glucose regulation

CHENNAI An awareness initiative, ‘Build Muscle. Beat Diabetes’ was held at YMCA, Nandanam on Saturday highlighting early action on diabetes and the importance of muscle strength in glucose regulation. A.

Myilvaganan, Joint Chief Executive Officer of the Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu and Special Officer for the Mission Olympic 2036 project, participated. According to a press release, Arun Raghavan, co-founder and clinical lead of Revivo Clinic for Obesity and Diabetes, which organised the event as part of World Diabetes Day, said skeletal muscle accounts for approximately 70–80% of insulin-stimulated glucose uptake and is central to blood glucose regulation. Resistance training two to three times a week, alongside walking and other physical activity, should become a routine part of diabetes prevention and management, he added.

Arvind Ashok, the clinic’s co-founder, said that it was possible to build muscle at any age.