You know,.. I actually agree with you. For whatever reason, my below average weight wife has persistently elevated insulin, but normal blood sugar. Still, it was high enough for her doctor to wonder whether she had pancreatic cancer (she doesn’t, thankfully). Shes athletic and active and doctors can’t say she her body simply produces more insulin.
It’s really awful to be doing research and read over and over that those with high insulin should lose weight. If my wife loses 10 pounds she would actually be underweight. When she was pregnant last, she lost ten pounds and the doctors were starting to get worried.
The shittiest part is that my fat diabetic family try to give her diet advice while simultaneously having no discipline. We’ve tried diets to lose what weight she has left and bring her insulin down, but no dice. Meanwhile, my family says they’ll diet, eats trash, are fat, and have diabetes and act as if they and my wife have the same disease.
Ultimately focusing all our attention on people engaging in self destructing behaviors lessens the amount of time spent helping people who actually have a disease