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Body hackers, including Andrew Huberman, also see it as a promising tool to help regulate blood sugar.

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In fact, experts agree that these findings are exciting.

That has the potential to be very powerful.

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These findings have revealed a potential tool for improving the rate of muscle metabolism during inactivity, Masteller says.

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A low-effort movement you could do while sitting that raises your metabolic activity and could ward off disease?

But there are some important things to keep in mind.

Are the benefits of soleus pushups exaggerated?

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But I havent tried it so I guess I cant say for sure.

But Masteller is also skeptical of how doable this method actually is.

We should be cautious to extrapolate the findings to real-world applications, she says.

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But is it a metabolism firing, fat-burning magic bullet?

Well, in fitness, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

A tale as old as time (or at least, as old as TikTok).

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A potent physiological method to magnify and sustain soleus oxidative metabolism improves glucose and lipid regulation.iSciencevol.

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