....this is going to sound really stupid but never once have I ever actually realized wtf insulin is and that it, in fact, is a hormone.....welp my mind exploded just now.

Interesting. So we know the sugar being unable to be processed and building up in our body leads to diabetes, and the reason it can't be processed is due to the insulin resistance.

You mentioned that the body will try to provide additional insulin to attempt to "force the locks" in this example. Is there any impact from the excess insulin in our body? Or does it not build up the same way because it gets used (unfortunately unsuccessfully) when trying to process the sugar?

Hm so insulin resistance is caused by diet. Is insulin resistance reversible with diet change then or is it kind of one of those things where the damage is done but diet change can mitigate it to a certain point? I've seen where it's been said diabetes can be reversed depending on the type of diabetes (not the type where you're born with it, only the type where you acquire the disease) and now I'm assuming since the two are linked that if you reverse insulin resistance that equally reverses diabetes? Not sure if that's an accurate way to look at that

Hm. Is it known how insulin resistance happens? For example does insulin resistance start first from a cause on it's own and then the resistance causes diseases like PCOS/Diabetes or do the diseases cause insulin resistance? Or neither/some mix of the two??