If you ever get the itch to write a beginner s guide to slin........well that would be fantastic bro.
I may consider it later in the year but it would be filled with lots of research to validate claims either way. If I'm going to stick myself out there and promote insulin use, it will only be founded on clinical research and anecdotes by myself. The problem with writing up material for beginners is that a large portion of beginners (but certainly not all) have about a 3-5 minute attention span. If you can't give them the brass tax in a few lines, they won't bother thumbing through the entire article/research.
This is why people don't like giving information particularly about insulin. Ideally, we could provide the data, research & anecdotes and
our interpretation fully understanding that we are fallible and could be wrong. However, we know good and well that beginners don't think this way and are looking to trust someone else on what to do without fully understanding the current body of knowledge around the biology of insulin use. They want to trust you just the same as they would a doctor. Well I'm not a doctor, even though I'm certain I know more about insulin & endocrinology than your typical general practitioner.
I don't have malpractice insurance. They do.
Taking someone's word for it isn't particularly a bad thing unless you do so: 1) without thorough understanding of the biological processes in the body pertaining to that drug/chemical or 2) you don't know enough about the topic to disagree with a more educated individual on the subject matter.
So this is why I (and others) are slow to talk about these things because in a day and age where people want to shift blame and not take personal responsibility, when noobs read my article and jump in head first and cause themselves to have a diabetic coma and have to go to the hospital for treatment, when momma asks them where they go the notion they could do this, the last thing I want is someone to say "Fueledpassion said so". Momma will come looking for me then and I don't need angry momma's trying to blame me for her son's ignorance of how things work.
It's one thing to say "yeah, it works" and "insulin isn't dangerous if used appropriately" and "insulin with GH are synergistic" and etc etc. But it's an entirely different thing to start walking people through how to do it. That'd be like telling someone, yeah, "heroine does indeed kill the pain and puts you in a peaceful place" as compared to telling them where to get it, how much to get, how to cook/mix it with blood and where to inject, etc etc.
One makes a true/false statement, the other actually walks people through how to do it. Thing is, you need to know enough about the biological processes to be able to check and adjust your method mid-way thru. For instance, you need to know how insulin will react when you inject it into a little vein in your tummy fat. The result is
problematic, if you aren't prepared for it. But that's just one example. Another would be if you take it several times per day (which I would normally do myself) but your intervals are shorter in duration than the active life of the insulin in the blood, you'll get compounding effects of insulin by the 4th or 5th dose, you see.
Anyways, I'll have to think on it and decide what to include versus what not to include. I realize that I could just say to myself, "people are going to do it anyways so they might as well be informed". This is a true statement. But what is also true is that I would likely have convinced a percentage of people to take it who were not seriously considering it prior to hearing my opinion. This is the unsettling part. I would have to figure out how to keep my opinion and interpretation of the data far removed from the article so as to stay neutral and force each reader to draw their own conclusion about it. This problem doesn't exist for steroids, ironically, because they are probably more harmful to the body over the long haul. People want and will take steroids for quick gains and the thriving black market proves such a robust demand exists. Insulin however has a negative connotation and is generally the subject of excessive fear-mongering, albeit is partly founded in truth, but largely founded in hyperbole. This means anyone convincing others of insulin's safety would also be convincing others to take something that they otherwise would not.
What I truly wish could happen is that the forum could be interactive, in that I would write an article about insulin (or anything for that matter) and have it broken up into several parts. It would be wonderful if the reader would have to answer a questionnaire at the end of each part (a questionnaire that I devise based on the material). If they pass the questionnaire, then the next part of the article appears for them to read. Otherwise, without passing the quiz on the material that would otherwise be impossible to answer without reading the dang thing, they would not be granted access to read the rest of the articles. With an entire forum built on this programming, we could encourage and revolutionize how people perceive information on the web by creating pre-requisites in order to have access to more advanced information. We've always said that part of the problem with certain drugs is that it falls into the hands of naïve users. It would be the same exact concept that we have with driving vehicles or gun safety. We put in place educational structure that ushers people very gradually into the wealth of knowledge they seek and in the right order to boot.
Someone needs to do this. I would provide help.
