Hey folks,

I know there's a lot of talk of insulin resistance in low carb dieting circles, but shouldn't we be talking instead about the relative insulin resistance of adipose tissue vs muscle tissue?

If your adipose tissue is more insulin sensitive than your muscle tissues, wouldn't fuel partitioning dictate that you will get fat? Similarly if your muscle tissue is more insulin sensitive than your adipose tissue, shouldn't you get muscular and lean?

So it seems to me that relative insulin resistance may be something important to consider as well as overall insulin resistance. And then we would need to find a mechanism to explain this difference in relative insulin resistance.

Is there any merit to this idea? Tell me if I'm wrong.