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Diabetology (BLOOD SUGAR) Part 2 Encore with Mike Natter

Ologies with Alie Ward

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The Rise of Insulin in America

Today is world diabetes day. Dr. Banting, he discovered the therapeutic use for insulin. He was able to kind of distill it from, I believe, a dog's pancreas and use it in a young diabetic boy who saved his life. And so now we've somehow come into this very unfortunate and corrupted place of capitalism where they're only three major pharmaceutical companies at manufacturer insulin.

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