One hundred years ago, Frederick Banting and Charles Best first isolated insulin. For the first time in the history of the world, being diagnosed with type-1 diabetes was no longer a death sentence.
Banting and Best could have patented the process. Instead, they made the production protocol available to the world, free of charge. Unfortunately, today’s pharmaceutical companies are all about turning a profit. Insulin that costs pennies to produce is sold for hundreds of dollars per vial.
Trump managed to rein in the price gouging early in his presidency; Biden, of course, couldn’t let that stand, and costs are soaring again. In addition, we’ve also got a lot of other problems at the same time. The supply chain and just-in-time delivery are collapsing. With all the money printing going on, we’re on the cusp of hyperinflation. The geopolitical situation is dicey at best.
I don’t think things are going to get better anytime soon. In fact, I think they’re going to get a lot worse.
Four years ago I posted an article “Do the Diabetics Have to Die?” Basically, most people believe that in a societal collapse, diabetics will die when the insulin supply is exhausted. Type-1 diabetics require insulin every single day. Most type-2 diabetics can bring their blood sugar under control with diet and exercise.
Twenty years after the discovery and isolation of insulin, Eva Saxl and her husband found themselves in Japanese-occupied Shanghai having to produce insulin for her when the Japanese closed the pharmacies and legal access to insulin evaporated. Neither she nor her husband had any medical or scientific training. They had a book with the formula.
Plan A for most diabetics who prepare involves stockpiling the insulin and all necessary supplies, and hoping that they don’t run out.
Plan B, unfortunately, requires making insulin. In the references below I have the link to the 1926 article with the exact protocol for producing insulin.
Two off-grid medicine physicians have commented on the potential for off-grid production of insulin. They both have a vested interest in making sure type-1 diabetics survive; Dr. Joseph Alton, author of the Survival Medicine Handbook, has a type-1 son. Dr. Ed Grouch has a type-1 brother. While both recognize that Eva Saxl and her husband did it, they aren’t so optimistic about our prospects for repeating their success. They also recognize that we don’t have a lot of other options.
Here are links to their articles. I’ve also provided the web addresses in the references section below. Both physicians reference future articles that will be written. Unfortunately, as best I can tell, these articles haven’t been posted.
Dr. Joseph Alton’s How to Make Insulin
Dr. Ed Grouch’s Homemade Insulin, pt 1
The final address below is to an organization that has the stated purpose of making DIY insulin available to all. I check in with them once in a while to see how things are going; there hasn’t been much activity lately. But you never know when that will change.
We do know that life in our society is rapidly changing. We have to prepare now.
Links to related posts:
Do the Diabetics Have to Die?References:
http://www.jbc.org/content/72/1/57.full.pdf (1926 article detailing insulin production)
https://www.doomandbloom.net/how-to-make-insulin/
https://griddownmed.blog/2015/02/07/homemade-insulin-part-i/
https://openinsulin.org/what-we-do/
5 may 2021
Insulin today is created by inserting recombinant DNA into bacteria which then produces the insulin. Prior to that breakthrough insulin came from the pancreas of slaughtered animals. There is no way the normal person can create insulin by the current lab methods. There is a miniscule possibility that if you have access to enough fregly slaughtered animals you could extract and purify enough insulin to make a difference. Most people are more likely to win Superlotto. Insulin availability is predicated on a high level functioning technicalw society. As with so many gi gs in a post collapse.
ReplyDeleteDan, I've seen you post in many sites. Do you ever post an encouraging posting?
ReplyDeleteFolks here are seeking the wisdom and experience of a wide audience seeking solutions, not your Diabetics are going to die posts like yours.
There are controlled diet and herbals that assist the weak pancreas's production of Insulin and can help some type 2 diabetics.
Did you READ the articles about DIY Insulin? It DID happen well before the recombinant DNA process.
Is it hard work? Yes, but what would Dan do if someone HE loved needed something hard to do to survive?
Had to decide whether to contribute and continue contributing to this format >>> I for one, don't see a HARSH REALITY of SHTFs to be detrimental - prepping isn't for the timid and survival harder - If you don't put on Big Boyz trousers in the morning and face reality - you need to move over and allow the peppers that can, contribute as necessary >> my contribution follows .....
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