Insulin and Obesity
8 min readOct 1, 2021
The structure of scientific revolutions has been rattling in my head. I am hardly alone. Over the last forever long, turns out since at least the 1940s, we have been using energy balance as our model of obesity. It makes intuitive sense since energy (or matter for that matter) cannot be made or destroyed, it can only be transformed. This works whether you are talking of the heat of the sun, where fusion leads to energy, the energy that keeps us alive…