3 Benefits of the Hypothyroidism Exercise Revolution Program

1. Improved Glycogen Storage for Better Blood Sugar Regulation

Glycogen is really nothing more than stored sugar. Your body stores glycogen in its liver and muscles.

The glycogen (sugar) in your liver is released as needed into your bloodstream to keep your blood sugar stable between meals.

The glycogen (sugar) in your muscles is released during physical activity to fuel your muscles to produce more energy.

Without adequate glycogen, your body can’t regulate its own blood sugar or produce the energy it needs to support proper thyroid function.

So, we need to get your liver and muscle to store glycogen again.

One way we can help do this is through proper exercise.

When you exercise and up to 45 minutes after, your cells become hyper-sensitive to sugar, which is good news for the following reasons:

1. The sugar you consume during exercise is readily used by your muscles to produce energy and to prevent the overproduction of thyroid-suppressive stress hormones.
2. The sugar you consume up to 45 minutes after exercise is readily used to replenish your liver and muscle glycogen stores.

This is one way that proper exercise helps improve blood sugar handling among diabetics as well.

If we consume the right amounts of sugar at the right times, we can store more glycogen and improve our ability to metabolize sugar (oxidative metabolism)… two big and common issues with which almost all thyroid sufferers struggle.

Speaking of oxidative metabolism, this leads us into the second benefit of proper thyroid exercise.

2. Restored Healthy Oxidative Metabolism to Use Thyroid Hormone More Efficiently

Oxidative metabolism is another term for sugar metabolism.

It refers to the efficient use of sugar and thyroid hormone together to produce lots of energy, as mentioned above.

If your cells can’t use sugar properly, then you won’t receive the full benefits of thyroid hormone, plain and simple.

However, the proper thyroid-exercise we teach helps your cells to adapt to using this healthy oxidative metabolism, even long after the exercise is stopped.

By exercising this way and supporting health oxidative (sugar) metabolism, we can then use thyroid more efficiently and produce more energy all day every day.

3. Increased Metabolically Active Muscle to Burn More Fat

Now, let’s talk about burning fat… because most have this completely backwards.

If you’re trying to burn fat during your workout, then you’re doing it all wrong. That’s the dangerous and thyroid-suppressive way to do it.

If you want to burn fat the healthy way, you don’t do it during exercise. You get your body to burn more fat 24 hours a day (except when you exercise).

You see, if your body is burning fat during exercise, this means that it’s already used up all its other fuel reserves and your thyroid has long since shut down.

Instead, your body is designed to burn fat when you’re at rest and energy requirements are rather low.

Now, if we can increase your resting metabolism (the number of calories you burn at rest) then your body will easily burn more fat all day every day.

One easy way we can do this is to increase the amount of muscle we have. Please note we’re not talking about bulky muscle here. We’re talking about lean toned muscle.

Muscle is much more metabolically active than fat. So, it requires more energy to maintain it.

So, adding more lean and toned muscle to your body naturally increases your resting metabolic rate to force your body to burn more fat.

Burning more fat during rest is one of the keys to long-term weight loss.

But, don’t let your weight fool you.

Muscle is also denser than fat, so you may gain muscle and lose fat at the same time, while the number on your scale shows little to no difference.

I’ve even had clients who have gained weight even though they lost quite a lot fat (and inches) because their organs and muscles became healthier and heavier in the process.

So, don’t rely on the number on your scale as an indicator of progress.

Burning fat the healthy way doesn’t happen overnight.

It takes time to increase your resting metabolic rate.

So, you may not see dramatic results over a short period of time.

But remember, this is how you sustainably lose fat over the long-term so you don’t ruin your thyroid and gain it back next month.