Type One Diabetic

On September 6th 1876, the Scottish physician and physiologist John James Macleod was born near Dunkeld.

J J Macleod is arguably the most famous Scot you will hear about today that you never knew before, he was instrumental in discovering a drug that has saved countless lives while working  at the University of Toronto in 1921, for which he shared a Nobel Prize for  Medicine. 

He was the son of the Rev. Robert Macleod. When later the family moved to Aberdeen, Macleod went to the Grammar School there and later entered the Marischal College of the University of Aberdeen to study medicine.

In 1898 he took his medical degree with honours and was awarded the Anderson Travelling Fellowship, which enabled him to work for a year at the Institute for Physiology at the University of Leipzig.

He was noted as one of the co-discoverers of insulin and given the Nobel Medal for this discovery. Macleod’s main work was on carbohydrate metabolism and his efforts with Frederick Banting and Charles Best in the discovery of insulin used to treat diabetes. For this Banting and Macleod were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1923. Macleod was awarded half of the Nobel Prize for the discovery of insulin in 1921 which he shared with James B Collip.

A chronic, autoimmune condition that occurs when the body's own immune system attacks and destroys the insulin producing beta cells of the pancreas.

This attack leaves the pancreas with little or no ability to produce insulin, a hormone that regulates blood sugar. Without insulin, sugar stays in the blood and can cause serious damage to organ systems.

People with T1D must inject or pump insulin into their bodies everyday to carefully regulate blood sugar and stay alive.

T1D:

Means insulin dependency for life.

Diagnosed at any age.

Threatens devastating complications.

Demands meticulous planning to avoid life-threatening situations.

T1D is not:

A lifestyle disease.

Something you outgrow.

Contagious.

Caused by sugar.

Preventable.

Curable...yet.

They've done all this shit to make taking insulin & knowing your blood sugar easier, but they still don't know how to hack motivation. And that's what is missing from Healthcare.

There's still so much motivation, attention and engery needed to keep yourself feeling good. Not just alive.

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Happy World Diabetes Day!