How is insulin taken from animals?!
Question: These days the insulin is manufactured.
They stopped using pigs insulin about 15 years ago, if my memory serves me correctly.
The pancreas of the pig was salvaged at the freezing works when the animals were slaughtered and sold to the manufacturers. They tested it for all the infectious things to make sure it was 'clean', sterilised it, modified it and bottled it. It was as safe as houses, and saved millions of lives. One of the greatest discoveries in medicine.
My mother had a cousin who died of a hyper at 19 - insulin wasn't discovered then, and if you went seriously high you were cactus.
Makes you glad you live in the 21st century really.
Answers: These days the insulin is manufactured.
They stopped using pigs insulin about 15 years ago, if my memory serves me correctly.
The pancreas of the pig was salvaged at the freezing works when the animals were slaughtered and sold to the manufacturers. They tested it for all the infectious things to make sure it was 'clean', sterilised it, modified it and bottled it. It was as safe as houses, and saved millions of lives. One of the greatest discoveries in medicine.
My mother had a cousin who died of a hyper at 19 - insulin wasn't discovered then, and if you went seriously high you were cactus.
Makes you glad you live in the 21st century really.
it was originally taken from the pancreas of a cow, but now they can make it