The ideal situation is always: enough policemen, not too many for the bad guys, not too many bad guys that will cause the policemen to overreact, and enough jail space to hold the criminals.

Imagine that your body has a bunch of policemen (they represent insulin). Now, if they're really good policemen, you only need a handful to deal with the bad guys (food) and put them where they need to go (muscle or energy). This represents high insulin sensitivity- a little goes a long way.
Now lets suppose there's a crime wave (eating too much for too long) and so the police force increases a lot to deal with all the bad guys . Pretty soon they run out of normal jail space and have to put bad guys wherever they can (fat storage). When the crime wave stops, the police are all still there, and so when another bad guy comes in, they all go after it. Now imagine millions of policecars driving down a highway all going super fast to chase a handful of bad guys- there's going to be some damage done to the roads and buildings (this represents type-II diabetes or insulin resistance or metabolic syndrome). That's why consistently elevated insulin levels are not good.
The ideal situation is always: enough policemen, not too many for the bad guys, not too many bad guys that will cause the policemen to overreact, and enough jail space to hold the criminals.

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