What is more, it is known from animal experiments — and autopsies on patients who died during treatment – that prolonged medication with cortisone tends to atrophy the adrenal cortex. In fact, cases have been known where the cortex had virtually wasted away completely. If the body is given a substance which it should produce itself, then the organ which normally has this function will degenerate because it has become superfluous. The same principle applies to the muscles. If they are not exercised they will grow weak and flabby, resulting in atrophy, wasting away. We have the same evidence of such a thing happening in the case of diabetes and treatment with insulin. The doctor will readily admit that insulin is a help but not a cure. Part of the pancreas, the part that actually produces insulin, begins to degenerate if too much of the medication is given. Orthodox medicine is aware of this fact and a conscientious doctor will prescribe the absolute minimum dose necessary. He does not want to discourage the pancreas from manufacturing its own insulin, or perhaps even cause the still active islets of the pancreas to degenerate as well. It is obvious that the treatment which produces results without the need for insulin is to be preferred at all times.

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