 I am Dr. Sagarika Mukherjee. I'm an endocrinologist at Monipal Hospital in Kolkata. We'll discuss about why do you need to exercise when you have diabetes. Actually, just not for diabetes. You really need to exercise to keep yourself healthy and up-going for everyday activities, et cetera, because once you don't exercise or once you don't mobilize your body, your muscles, your joints and the muscles don't work properly, tends to get more stiff and therefore that can lead to various forms of arthritis and incapacities later on. But particularly for diabetes, why do you need to exercise is mainly because once you exercise, muscles tend to become very, very active and muscles, remember, are the tissue which require insulin for taking up glucose to keep up with the metabolism. So once you start exercising, your muscles become very active, so your own insulin will start to function even in a better way and there is this abnormal factor called insulin resistance which is associated with time to diabetes, tends to come down when you do a lot of exercise. You burn a lot of calories that help you to lose weight as well and keep you fit and healthy for a prolonged period of time. The WHO recommends that if you can exercise 30 minutes a day, whatever form, either it can be walking, jogging, jumping, freehand exercise, any form of exercise which will help to increase your heart rate which will make you sweat, these form of aerobic type of exercise, if you can manage to do 30 minutes a day just for five days a week, then that's going to keep you up and healthy for the rest of your life. But that has to be done on a regular basis, not just one of, today it's raining, I'm not going to exercise, today it's too hot, I can't go out. So there shouldn't be such lame excuses for not doing exercise. So along with your diet, along with your medications, whatever your doctor is prescribing, exercise is one of the main pillars for keeping your diabetes under strict control. Thank you very much for tuning in.