LOWER blood sugar IMMEDIATELY Do lunges before or after meals—hallway, kitchen, living room. Big leg muscles (glutes, quads, hamstrings, calves) act like sponges and soak up sugar from your bloodstream. Why it works : 1️⃣ Muscle = sugar sink. When muscles contract, they open tiny “doors” called GLUT4 on the muscle cell surface. Think of GLUT4 as sugar doors that let glucose in. 2️⃣ Works even without extra insulin. Contraction opens those doors independently of insulin, so sugar gets cleared fas