Medical Study: Effects of Resistive Excercise on Insulin Sensitivity

      During my senior year in college, I saw an medical flyer posted asking type one diabetics to partake in a 5 day hospitalized study. I had just graduated college, so why not start a career in lab rat experiments. It was financially compensated, so in the name of science, I could not say no.

     After meeting with the doctor leading the study, I learned most of the time would be spent bed-ridden, and the bits of  working out would be minimal, as the whole point was to isolate weight lifting, and see its effects on insulin absorption compared to sedentary absorption.

     I remember having a roommate who was also participating in the study, but I don't remember anything about him. I know the day I got out, I celebrated with a friend at McGlinchey's downtown. I have not really thought about it since, but thanks to this blog, I decided to look it up, and it seems like it was completed 9 years later, and the results are posted here, in the journal of sports rehabilitation:

Insulin-Sensitivity Response to a Single Bout of Resistive Exercise in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus