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Physical activity improves insulin sensitivity by altering skeletal muscle fatty acid composition, specifically by reducing palmitic acid and improving delta-5 desaturase activity.
Regular physical activity changes the fat composition in your muscles, lowering palmitic acid and improving enzyme activity related to insulin sensitivity, even if your diet stays the same.
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Despite an identical fatty acid composition of the diet, subjects who were physically active showed a fatty acid pattern of the skeletal muscle phospholipids characterized by less palmitic acid and DHLA and an improved activity of delta-5 desaturase...
Why this rating
Based on studies comparing trained vs. untrained subjects with controlled diets.
Source
Desaturation and Elongation of Fatty Acids and Insulin Action
B. Vessby et al. · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2002
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