GCG and type 2 diabetes mellitus: Notably, a “paradigm shift” in reevaluating the role of the incretin system in AT as a potential target to treat obesity-linked metabolic disorders resulted from the demonstration that a disruption of the GIP and GLP-1 signaling axis in fat is associated with adiposity-induced insulin-resistance (IR) and/or type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D).