Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 53 minutes ago
We’re told insulin resistance means muscle stops listening to insulin and won’t take up glucose.
But what if the muscle isn’t refusing glucose at all?
In this video, we look at what researchers found when they measured glucose moving into skeletal muscle in overweight men whose blood sugar was still completely normal.
The muscle was taking up glucose.
Plenty of it.
And once you follow where that glucose goes, the simple “muscle is resisting insulin” story starts to look a lot less simple.
Because normal blood sugar does not necessarily mean nothing is going wrong.
Insulin can be high. Muscle can be flooded with glucose. Fuel use can shift. Glucose can be recycled back into circulation. And all the while, a standard glucose reading can still look reassuringly normal.
That is the real story here.
Not whether glucose is high.
But what the body may be doing behind the scenes to keep it looking normal.
If your waist is expanding, triglycerides are climbing, blood pressure is creeping up, but you keep being told everything is fine because your glucose looks “normal,” this is a piece of the metabolic puzzle worth understanding.
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We’re told insulin resistance means muscle stops listening to insulin and won’t take up glucose.
But what if the muscle isn’t refusing glucose at all?
In this video, we look at what researchers found when they measured glucose moving into skeletal muscle in overweight men whose blood sugar was still completely normal.
The muscle was taking up glucose.
Plenty of it.
And once you follow where that glucose goes, the simple “muscle is resisting insulin” story starts to look a lot less simple.
Because normal blood sugar does not necessarily mean nothing is going wrong.
Insulin can be high. Muscle can be flooded with glucose. Fuel use can shift. Glucose can be recycled back into circulation. And all the while, a standard glucose reading can still look reassuringly normal.
That is the real story here.
Not whether glucose is high.
But what the body may be doing behind the scenes to keep it looking normal.
If your waist is expanding, triglycerides are climbing, blood pressure is creeping up, but you keep being told everything is fine because your glucose looks “normal,” this is a piece of the metabolic puzzle worth understanding.
Join my email list to learn more
acumbamail.com/newform/web/teAcN9aE8Spi8dT7WVJyi6zE3DFjVObvA3t5BWhBONdYzJEJut3pF/64188
#insulinresistance #MetabolicHealth #Hyperinsulinemia #SkeletalMuscle #GlucoseMetabolism
