[00:00] Your second heart is destroying your metabolism and you've probably never even heard about it. Most people don't even know the name of this second heart. It's called the soleus. In 2022, researchers at the University of Houston discovered that activating the soleus muscle while sitting
[00:14] reduced blood sugar spikes after meals by 52% and insulin response by 60%. The interesting thing is that you don't have to stand up. You can do the soleus push-up while you're sitting, when you're stuck in an airplane, on the bus, while driving or when watching TV.
[00:27] The reason the soleus is called the second heart is because it also supports circulation. The soleus sits underneath the calf muscles. Every time it contracts, it pumps the blood back up to your heart again.
[00:39] If you're sitting, the soleus is inactive and your blood can pool in your legs, which can then increase the risk of thrombosis and blood clotting. But when the soleus gets activated while doing the soleus push-up, you prevent that, you support proper circulation.
[00:52] When it comes to blood sugar regulation, that the mechanism comes down to the activation of what's called GLUT4. GLUT4 gets activated when you contract muscles and the soleus muscles are in fatigue which means that you can continuously keep the GLUT4 activated which then lowers your blood sugar. The movement is quite simple. You sit
[01:09] down on the chair and you do a seat calf raise. Instead of squeezing the muscle just lift your heels and repeat it at a speed of around 60 to 100 reps per minute. If you want to discover your own health percentile with various biomarkers, how healthy you are compared to everyone else,
[01:23] then take our health assessment at the top 1% health community, linked down below.
[01:53] you