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Thank you for a great article! If pyruvate could be an early diagnosis for risk of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes then what level could it be an indication for that risk? And could type 2 diabetes be reversed with exercise only?

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What level is hard to say, and measuring lactate rather than pyruvate is probably an easier indicator! I think that T2D can be reversed and certainly helped with exercise only, though diet modification is also encouraged!

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I love that you've claimed the term "exercist" and revised it's meaning!

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I claim it but admit that it’s not my term! Dr. Daniel Lieberman was the one who coined it.

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Thanks for reminding me that I really need to read "Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding" !!!

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Fantastic! More proof that exercise is the ultimate medicine.

For the record, I always thought that sedentary meant “unhealthy,” because how could it not?

And. If you aren’t exercising and fit, you’d last minutes during an emergency, let alone a zombie apocalypse.

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Training to survive the zombie apocalypse is really the only reason I exercise!

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