Robert Lustig MD: Why BMI Misleads—It’s Insulin Resistance That Truly Predicts Metabolic Health
13 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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A short excerpt from a talk by Robert Lustig MD explaining that while higher BMI correlates with greater insulin resistance at the population level, at any individual BMI there is wide variability: some people are insulin sensitive and some insulin resistant. The speaker references Bergman’s disposition index (1986) and a hyperbolic relationship between BMI and insulin sensitivity.










