Is it possible to make home-made insulin? How do you do it?

Answer 1

Actually, it is possible to make homemade insulin. The ADA magazine, Diabetese Forecast published the story about 10 years ago of a couple who lived in China when the Japanese invaded China during WWII. The Japanese destroyed the economy and insulin became completely unavailable in China. The husband was a scientist, so to keep his Type I wife alive, he and several of his scientist co-workers bought pigs, put their pancreases through certain procedures, purified their result, and then tested it on other animals.

When the day finally came that the wife ran out of insulin, her husband brought it home for her to use. It was a dark brown color, and, to ease her anxiety he told her it was "fish insulin," although she says she knew what it was. She injected herself and they spent the rest of the night watching her for danger signs. When she lived, the discovered it worked and continued to make batches of it until they were liberated. He provided a sample of his "homemade insulin" to scientists in the US and received a medal for his success.

However, unless your life is in danger and there is no way to get real insulin, as it was for this man's wife, don't do it. Also, note that this man was a scientist who had access to scientific equipment. He also knew how to propertly sterilize and handle the animals he used.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

1. Human food not being good for dogs Good concern, this is mainly chocolates, onions, soda, things like that. As well as corn... 2. Chemicals in our food Another good point but what's not fit for human consumption, is put into pet food. 3. Too much fat Dogs process fat differently than us, I do take the skin off chicken if there seems to be a lot of excess. 4. Diseases found in meat That's why you get meat that's for human consumption. I'm not sure what exactly you're concerned about? I feed a raw prey model diet. Ground is bad because you loose nutrients when you grind, same with cooking, and dogs cannot properly digest rice, carrots, or potatoes.

Answer 4

Absolutely not, insulin these days is recombinant human insulin, made by specially modified bacteria kept in very specific conditions in large plants dedicated to it. Before that it was extracted from animals (mostly cows and pigs). Insulin is a protein hormone, it is synthesized from living things, not something you could make in any chemistry lab, and certainly not in your home

Answer 5

my wife is diabetic and yes I have perfected sterile means for producing insulin. Those of you who are commenting obviously don't have a loved one with diabetes, if you did you should be concerned with the question of how you would get them insulin if it were not available because of some world wide disaster. worst case scenario maybe, but not impossible. I love my wife and would do anything to make certain she could survive anything with me. I'll give you a hint, insulin used to be derived for human use through pigs, from there you can break it down.

Answer 6

Hmm, I'm not sure. If you mean killing a person and taking their pancreas to make a home made insulin maker machine. I would say no. Where do they get insulin from anyway???

Answer 7

Did you see dLife on Sunday by any chance? The story the previous poster described was aired then.

Answer 8

I would't go there

Answer 9

No, it's not possible.

Answer 10

Not very likely. I wouldn't even attempt it.