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That's not how insulin works at all.

Insulin is a hormone that your body uses to transfer glucose from your blood into your muscles for energy.

You get glucose (sugar) in your blood from eating foods that contain sugars or carbohydrates (which break down into sugars when you eat them)

Insulin response in normal healthy people depends on blood sugar levels.

Ketosis is the opposite effect that you get from not eating sugars for an extended period and your body burns fats and lipids instead of sugars for its primary energy source.
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rafftyl 9mo ago

Let me convince you otherwise with facts and logic, lol.

Facilitating glucose transport one of insulin's responsibilities in the body. But it's a kind of "macro hormone", doubling also as a general growth factor (stimulating protein sythesis) and electrolyte metabolism regulator (among others). Sources:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK525983/

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00252649

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4198400/

Dietary amino acids influence insulin secretion, so you can get an insulin elevation from a large enough bolus of protein in one meal. Source:

https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.14814/phy2.15577

Ketosis is insulin-dependent, not glucose-dependent (well, it's more complex that that, but oh well). That's why type 1 diabetics can get into ketosis (and even ketoacidosis) even while eating carbs.

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