Won't necessarily disagree. However, long term(key word is long) use of insulin injections is associated with pancreatic cancer. Also again long term use(again key word is long) use of insulin has shown to lower the pancreas' efficiency to produce its own insulin (not by dramatic amount though)
Good to know. Cancer is not something to play with. That said, I would like to see more convincing information on the subject other than a correlation between the two (long-term insulin use and cancer).
I say this because the common narrative for a typical Type II diabetic is this:
I have pre-diabetes.
Started taking metformin
12 months later got on insulin - started @ 1iu/10g of carbs.
24 months later, I'm now on 2iu/10g carbs
36 months later added Lantus and switched to Humalog during meals
Have not lost weight
Refuse to go to the gym and do something about it
Been taking 30-40iu of insulin every day for 15 years
I've noticed something in common about cancer causing things - they all are found in excessive amounts or none in the body. Examples:
Lung Cancer - smoked 2 packs of cigs per day
Skin Cancer - tanned 10-20 minutes every day or was a farmer for 40 years
Prostate cancer - DHT levels were non-existent or way too high for half my life
Breast cancer - too much estrogen activity in breast tissue. ( not always estrogen-related though )
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Now I know that is WAY over simplifying things but it does seem to be a common denominator with various cancers - too much or too little exposure to something or long-term nutritional deficiencies.
Taking 2-3iu of slin per meal, 3-5 times per day for 3-6 weeks at a time, maybe two times per year is probably not going to cause major issues for a normal, healthy individual. I'm comfortable assuming that until someone has some good data to prove it is harmful in the ways you mentioned.
Truth is, when it comes to diabetes in this country (roughly 30 million currently diagnosed), it comes down to two things:
Eating excessive amounts of sugars, simple carbs and processed foods that break down into sugars and/or really high GI coupled with meals that are too large, which makes the GL of the meal high as well and two,
Not enough physical activity. I spend about 17hrs of training activity every week and while this is plenty to get the body I desire for competition, I'm positive that people 2000/1000/500/200 and even just 60 years ago would laugh at that amount of "activity".
The computer really is gonna be the death of us all, lol. We're a lazy country thanks to our tech and we're rich and therefore have excessive amounts of foods, especially the kind that should only be enjoyed on the occasion (like candy, ice cream, cakes, etc). It's no wonder a fifth of the population is either pre-diabetic or Type II diabetic.