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Does stress increase blood sugar or decrease it? what about also exercising does it decrease or increase it?
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Good question!: Stress raises your body's cortisol level, which raises your blood sugar, if your mechanisms are intact. Exercise should lower your blood sugar to a degree by increasing metabolic demand.
Answered 6/13/2014
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