How The Insulin Is Prepared?

The preparation of insulin for diabetic forms all its own. The demand for this hormone is enormous. It has been estimated that there are over 120 million diabetic in the world, many of them requiring treatment with insulin. In the United States, over 14 million patients with the diabetic are estimated (white). Of these, 10 % or 1.4 million are insulin dependent type 1 diabetics and a little over 12 million are type 11, 1/3 of who also require insulin (4 million) of combined total of nearly 6 million patients on insulin at a cost of more than $ 20 billion per year.

Diabetic is the seven leading cause of death in the U.S. (about 150000 deaths per year). Insulin is essential for life. The extracted from the pancreas of pigs and beef after slaughter. German sources estimate that in order to provide 100000 patients with the porcine insulin it is necessary to slaughter 3.3 billion pigs. Likewise, in the United States, 20000 tons of beef pancreases were required per year to supply the demand. In other words it takes 14 cows and 70 pigs' pancreas to supply a diabetic patient in one year. In 1984, 79 million animals' pancreases required to meet the U.S needs. It was the last full year of the animal derived pancreatic insulin. In recent years, the sources of the animal pancreases have diminished considerably.