‘With 150 minutes of exercise a week, a very interesting effect is achieved in patients with diabetes,’ says nutritionist Serafín Murillo.For this expert, sport is essential to achieve good disease control and applaud that more digital tools arise every day that not only help measure the activity of patients, but also use real motivation mechanisms' that go beyondlower the glucose a little. 'In digitally healthy, it gives some tips to launch the challenge of the Imagine Express Health.
Very different diseases are sheltered under the umbrella of the term ‘diabetes’.They are type I diabetes and type II diabetes.Its peculiarities require a different pharmacological treatment;However, in both some fundamental considerations coincide for the patient to enjoy a good quality of life: to follow balanced feeding guidelines and achieve a good level of physical activity.According to Serafín Murillo, a diabetes, nutrition and sports specialist, ‘small changes in this regard are very grateful for diabetes’.
In an interview in 'Digitally Healthy', issued in waves with the collaboration of Sanofi Campus, the specialist underlines that one of the most important messages to transmit to society, especially in the case of adults who debut in diabetes, is that ''The more at the beginning of the disease these changes are made, much more profitability will give us. '
In the case of feeding, it affects that it is basic for the patient to know the food because if it does not master it ‘everything else will go wrong, it will not work’.On the other hand, he comments that each physical exercise session has an effect very similar to an insulin injection.‘In a very similar way to insulin, when we take a walk or climb a ladder, our muscles are cleaning the glucose blood,’ he says.
In this regard, he explains that ‘there is a part of education that has to be regulated by the health system.But sometimes, due to lack of resources, it generates too superfluous knowledge.Therefore, increasingly trying to enhance learning systems outside the consultation: as are online tools.They help this basic knowledge to have everyone.
For Serafín Murillo, this technology is not only helping the patient to measure their physical activity, but motivates to continue practicing it and encourages other patients.In his opinion, a health app that motivates people with diabetes to be launched must have a series of characteristics.Do you want to know what they are?Listen to this podcast, maybe they come good to participate in the Imagine Express Health challenge.
