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Webb 3 Nobleprize.org says, "Before the discovery of insulin, diabetes was a feared disease that most certainly led to death. Doctors knew that sugar worsened the condition of diabetic patients an...
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Webb 3 Nobleprize.org says, "Before the discovery of insulin, diabetes was a feared disease that most certainly led to death. Doctors knew that sugar worsened the condition of diabetic patients an...
Even though insulin is not a cure for Diabetes it is the biggest accomplishment in medicine ever.Insulin saved people's lives who were close to death because they could eat anything with their insu...
Banting and Best first started their experiment with taking the pancreases out of dogs to see what happens. The dog started to pee more, lose its strength, and its blood sugar rose. The dog had got...
"Before the discovery of insulin, diabetes was a feared disease that most certainly led to death. Doctors knew that sugar worsened the condition of diabetic patients and that the most effective tre...
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"High blood sugar damages blood vessels and can lead to blockage. In the heart, this blockage can cause heart attacks. In fact, people with diabetes have two to four times the risk of developing he...
"Diabetic eye disease starts when blood vessels in the back of the eye (the retina) balloon out into pouches. Although this stage - called nonproliferative retinopathy - generally does not affect v...
"Kidney disease starts when the blood vessels in the kidney become leaky. These leaky vessels allow protein from the blood to be excreted with urine. (It's this protein that doctors detect when the...
Diabetics with Type 2 have high percentage of damage down the road to your eyes, kidneys, nerves, and blood vessels. If you don't have your blood sugar intact meaning not having it above two-hundre...
"Banting and Macleod received the 1923 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for the discovery of insulin. That the Nobel committee chose only Banting and Macleod for the award caused more animosit...
"On August 31, 1921, in the early days of his research, one of Frederick Banting's beloved test subjects died. Referred to in his notes as "Dog 92," the collie provided Banting's first real success...
"Historically, few individuals developed what is now known as type 2 diabetes, because a sedentary lifestyle and access to calories in excess of daily requirements was an unimaginable luxury for al...
Before Insulin Diabetics had to be on a strict diet of three to eight grams of sugar a day.[The Starvation Treatment of Diabetes Rena S. Eckman, Lewis Webb Hill]
"Diabetes, from the Greek word meaning "to pass through" or "pipe-like" has been claiming lives for thousands of years. A diabetic's body is unable to utilize food's nutrients as energy, causing ex...
January 1922 was the year that the first person tested insulin, and the person was a 14-year old boy Leonard Thompson. This had a favorable outcome for Leonard he made a swift and speedy recovery f...