Thread: insulin

does using insulin suppress natural insulin from the pancreaus?

Originally Posted by VictorZ06

I would say no for a human with a healthy/normal pancreas. It's a guess, I just don't see how a properly functioning pancreas will stop producing it's own insulin with the presence of extrogeneous insulin.

If you push the body long enough with supplemental "anything" without a deficiency to begin with, it MIGHT cause some sort of dysfunction. Type I DM is a helluva disease because your body doesn't produce any insulin whatsoever, thus the patient will need insulin forever.

Type II, you still are producing slin because the islet cells aren't destroyed, but the tissues just aren't receptive or you are not producing enough.

The body is really adaptive to extremes, but when it comes to hormones...you can never be safe enough