Love Diabetes: Genetically modified or natural insulin?

http://www.LoveDiabetes.com - Doctors can only prescribe medicine if it is available for their patients. However in the last 20 years, the choice of insulin has been designated by the decisions of business and not the democracy of patients. The benefits and disadvantages of natural insulins versus genetically modified insulins have never been fairly evaluated. Allie voices her support for a choice in insulin. She explains the biased marketing that was used to convince doctors of the superiority of genetically modified insulins that was not necessarily true. Please SUBSCRIBE to Allies Voice and make the world safer for people with diabetes.

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[letnofleshglory]

My cat was diabetic, and for 7 years, I gave her natural insulin twice a day. She thrived beautifully. Then, in 2006, they took her insulin away and made me buy a synthetic one. She died within two weeks. I was told that they were not making the natural insulin anymore because it was working too good and people were beginning to not even need it anymore. I realized that the pharmaceutical companies were afraid they were offering a cure! Why would they want to help CURE us??

[HaligonianType1]

@HaligonianType1 *insulins

[HaligonianType1]

Animal insulins do have c-peptide, where synthetic/analog insulisns do not. Whether that is a mitigating factor in anything is still up in the air. The jury is still out on that one. Finding a cure would be ideal for me. Not only am I a Type 1, my daughter is also. As is my dad, and his mom was, and a first cousin is also a Type 1.

Yay! Haha... Anyway, take care.

[HaligonianType1]

Just an FYI, porcine and bovine insulins also contain the same or similar additives that give a few of us grief with other insulins. Contrary to what some of the rhetoric out there tends to suggest - that animal insulins are somehow devoid of anything man made and don't have any issues. If you check the actual ingredients of porcine and bovine insulins, you will find I am correct. Sadly. I wish I was wrong.