{"id":218228,"date":"2025-07-18T14:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T19:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/metabolic-differences-in-male-and-female-muscles-may-explain-diabetes-variations"},"modified":"2025-07-18T14:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T19:04:09","slug":"metabolic-differences-in-male-and-female-muscles-may-explain-diabetes-variations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/metabolic-differences-in-male-and-female-muscles-may-explain-diabetes-variations","title":{"rendered":"Metabolic differences in male and female muscles may explain diabetes variations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/metabolic-differences-in-male-and-female-muscles-may-explain-diabetes-variations2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The skeletal muscles of men and women process glucose and fats in different ways. A study conducted by the University Hospital of T\u00fcbingen, the Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases of Helmholtz Munich and the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) e. V. provides the first comprehensive molecular analysis of these differences. The results, published in Molecular Metabolism, possibly give an explanation for why metabolic diseases such as diabetes manifest differently in women and men\u2014and why they respond differently to physical activity.<\/p>\n<p>Skeletal muscles are far more than just \u201cmovement driving motors.\u201d They play a central role in glucose metabolism and therefore also in the development of type 2 diabetes. This is due to the fact that around 85% of insulin-dependent glucose uptake takes place in the muscles.<\/p>\n<p>This means that if muscle cells react less sensitively to insulin, for example in the case of insulin resistance, glucose is less easily absorbed from the blood. This process is specifically counteracted by physical activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The skeletal muscles of men and women process glucose and fats in different ways. A study conducted by the University Hospital of T\u00fcbingen, the Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases of Helmholtz Munich and the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) e. V. provides the first comprehensive molecular analysis of these differences. The results, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}