For myself, I wasn’t reacting to the topic of insulin and diabetes but rather to the add’s line of persuasion. It seems that the add is NOT targeted to people who really need insulin – like Alpha or Trudy’s husband, Rye, (for which we are truly thankful) but rather at the huge population that don’t want to go to the effort of exercising and changing their diets. They use then fuzzy logic to conclude that this is OK or as Kevin commented, it is their only choice.

The fuzzy logic involves saying that because a drug ends up doing a function in the body that is ‘natural’ then that drug is OK. The trouble with this is that EVERY time you substitute a function in the body it HAS to substitute a ‘natural’ function or that intervention would have no effect. Following their logic, taking cocaine or heroin drugs is fine because the brain already produces those highs and lows in small amounts, or it is fine to sit in a wheelchair and substitute walking with someone pushing you around because ‘walking is something that the body does naturally’. The usual long term results of ’substituting something natural’ in the body is to create dependency and weakness. Many times this is absolutely necessary but lets not promote it to people for whom it is not.

I also react like Anne to the number of adds encouraging us to encourage our doctors to give us specific drugs. Doctors are trained to evaluate the benefits of drugs against the dangers but the general population is not and only sees easy magic bullet solutions to their complicated big problems. Also the people who wrote this add were not health professionals or health advocates but rather professional marketers who know how to persuade.

Also thanks for everyone NOT teasing me for the 3 or 4 spelling mistakes in the article!

Many of us in the alternative health industry know that the body (pancreas included), can in fact, regenerate itself and that many diabetics have reduced and/or eliminated their insulin usage by proper whole food nutritional programs. Most though become entwined in the current traditional medical wisdom and only come to look at alternatives when the medical system fails them. And THEN it is usually extremely difficult recreate optimum health when coming from such a weakened state.

My sense also is that the standard/level for prescribing insulin whether by pills or by injection has been lowered considerably. the whole thing makes me even more wary of the drug/medical industry.

Well darn it, if diabetes is in fact a disease where the body is not able to produce enough insulin naturally yet the body is made to be able to make it naturally, why don’t doctors focus on the healing of the systems in the body that have the lack ( most likely the digestive and immune systems) instead of feeding the body chemically processed insulin which does not help the body to get better at producing its own insulin?

I don’t really like the ad; it seems like they are pushing the belief that insulin injections for people with diabetes is the only choice.

Kevin Parkinson