Love Diabetes: The blasphemy of C-peptide Removal

[pdp1170]

Allie,

I am misskitka on tu. If I use synthetics for 2 weeks I become hypo unaware, get terrible neuropathy, and the list of adverse affects is endless. Using Hypurin pork I am healthy and after 53 years with type one this next summer have no complications in the least. This has to mean something. I tested negative for c-peps on synth and positive with Hypurin. I agree that the intentional removal of c-peps is gross and disgusting. I test only 2-3 times a month.

Be well and take care.

Don

[AllieBeatty]

insulin resistance indicates an excess amount of (unused) insulin in the body and it will show up on blood tests.same with c-peptide:

c-peptide resistance indicates an excess amount of (unused) c-peptide in the body and it will show up on blood tests. 

[AllieBeatty]

People who do not have diabetes a) they do not develop diabetic complications and b) they have normal levels of c-peptide. People with type 1 diabetes often show 'undetectable' levels of c-peptide because their islets do not produce insulin. People with type 2 diabetes show excess amounts of c-peptide because their islets produce insulin but their cells do not allow it either insulin or c-peptide to be used sufficiently.

[AllieBeatty]

c-peptide indicates that your islets are producing insulin. Often times, with Type 2 diabetes - it shows a high level of c-peptide because your islets are producing a lot of insulin to manage blood glucose but your cells are NOT allowing c-peptide to land on their receptors to provide the protection from diabetic complications. It's similar to the problem of insulin resistance.

[Rob2977]

Let me say this again...I'm over the limit of C-peptide and my insulin is over as well.

[Rob2977]

I'm pretty lost with this C-peptide...I went had some blood test done and it seems

I have a very high c peptide but a normal glucose...anybody have any ideal on this?

[AllieBeatty]

No I used analogues from July 1984 (Humulin) unril May 2007. I started using Hypurin Regular that month and haven't changed since. I was mistaken as to the 'removal' of C-peptide in analogues. They don't use the "c-peptide" in their manufacturing process. The yeasts or e.coli are only given the A and B peptide of insul to reproduce. The c-peptide in animal insul is not the same structure as human c-peptide and is not effective in the same way ;(

[HaligonianType1]

There is alot of controversy about this that is for sure. I have never use porcine or bovine insulin, and have't researched them much. Is the c-peptide remvoed from these typically as well? BTW, do you change your insulin often? I tend to mix it up and switch my basal and bolus insulins every few months or so. Great vid.

[MadassG]

Hey Allie :) Just wanted to drop a message to say how facinating your videos are, and how glad I am that you post them for all us diabetics to see. I have only seen a couple of videos so far, but I subscribed instantly. I am a 19-year-old girl from the UK, and we just don't seem to get such detailed info over here. I've been diabetic since I was six, and I was lucky enough to have a 'honeymoon phase' where I produced insulin again a couple of years after diagnosis...

[diabeticgonewild]

SYMLIN=C-peptide.....if that helps. Although it is not a component of insulin, it is available.

[Stix4568]

If anyone has been wrongfully terminated by Novo Nordisk, please respond on this blog. I heard they fire people that are labelled "unwanted", imagine that? They need to treat people more like humans.

[AllieBeatty]

Type 1s are a captive audience. Only 10% of Type 2s inject insulin. C-peptide repairs the effects of insulin carrying glucose out of the blood and into the cells and Type 2s injecting insulin still make insulin -- so they h ave C-peptide. This is why Type 1 complications occur in CELL WALLS and Type 2 complications occur in clots in the heart and brain -- TOO MUCH INSULIN! The only thing that protects Type 2s from complications is less blood sugar in the first place.

[urufam]

So big farma are against T1 Diabetics? some things in the body are useless , like C protein once insulin were out Beta Cells. If not big farma will make the insulin mix with C protein.

And I know a lot of things that Newton don`t , relative teoria for exemple.. ;P

[AllieBeatty]

Research is proving that intensive blood sugar control does not avoid complications for people with Type 1 diabetes -- it only prolongs the amount of time they take to develop. I don't consider than advantageous. I consider it a business decision in pursuit of the whole diabetes market. That is nefarious and criminal to Type 1s - especially since Lilly, Novo and Avntis have NO interest in making C-peptide available to US. I've asked!!

[urufam]

this is not correct, intensive blood sugar control can reduce de incidence of complications, ergo some patients didn't develop complication at all.

Anyway C peptide is discarded once insulin leaves the Beta-Cell and goes into blood stream.

[AllieBeatty]

Since when does a God-given piece of the body get "discarded" like trash? C-peptide has a FUNCTION of protecting us from the effects of INSULIN. Do you not believe in science? Newton's laws of motion explains the relationships between the forces acting on a body and the motion of the body - an equal and opposite reaction. Or do you know something He or Newton didn't know? Big Pharma is throwing-out C-peptide like trash. IT IS NOT TRASH!

[urufam]

So big farma are against T1 Diabetics? some things in the body are useless , like C protein once insulin were out Beta Cells. If not big farma will make the insulin mix with C protein.

And I know a lot of things that Newton don`t , relative teoria for exemple.. ;P

[lantusappreciation]

Interesting. But type 1s are the majority of insulin users, even though we're not the majority of diabetics.

Pharmaceutical insulins are improvements for us T1s not because of the c-peptide but because of the duration of action.