Insulin is one of many hormonal inputs regulating fat and muscle tissue, and focusing solely on insulin can cause confusion.

“people get hung up on say insulin or they get hung up on leucine or they get hung up on you know one particular thing and then they get confused when they see a paradoxical outcome right so a great example of that is uh kevin hall's study on fat loss looking at um you know where they showed that insulin was 26 percent higher but those people actually ended up losing like an i would call it a non-significant greater amount of actual fat mass than people who are on a ketogenic diet people say well how can that be true right and it's like okay well you gotta remember that insulin is just one input it's it's not the only input”