Type 1 Diabetes Informative Speech

Imagine you’re having pizza with your friends. As you reach for a second slice, you think about your needle--and then you remember you don’t have to give shots anymore. Before, you couldn’t just eat whenever you wanted; before you had Type 1 Diabetes. Everyday you had to count carbohydrates and give the correct dosage of insulin for the predicted amount of carbs you might consume. Now, an internal artificial pancreas recognizes an increase in blood sugar and automatically supplies the correct amount of insulin to your blood stream. No more finger pricks. No more shots. No more carb counting. Now, there’s a machine inside of you that constantly controls your diabetes. This new apparatus has changed your life, and you can hardly remember a few
An artificial pancreas would use synthetic methods to generate insulin. This would create an easier lifestyle by eliminating the numerous shots and allowing for better diabetes management and control. More importantly, it would greatly change the lives of diabetics that will allow for a healthier A1c (average glucose concentration), leading to fewer complications and a longer life expectancy. Diabetics are constantly checking their blood sugar but perhaps to no avail. The U.S. Senate and Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs claim in The Potential of an Artificial Pancreas Improving Care for People with Diabetes: “studies have found that even patients who aggressively manage their disease… still spend less than 30 percent of their day in the normal range,” (2). If an artificial pancreas were invented, the lives of Type 1 diabetics would be forever impacted, living longer, healthier lives through more efficient diabetes management by maintaining normal range blood sugars. Gregg Braden points out in his chapter of The Mystery of 2012: Predictions, Prophecies & Possibilities, “Perhaps the best way to discover what we don’t know is to take a look at what we do know” (5). In order for the artificial pancreas to be generated, recent and past technologies are combined to develop the artificial pancreas and improve the lifestyle
José Argüelles points out in his chapter “The Mayan Factor” in The Mystery of 2012, “we are in resonance with the environment” (72). However, these new technologies are causing humans to lose resonance with the environment, as we become robots. Not saying that diabetics want to become robots, they just want to live a healthier, more normal life with fewer complications. An artificial pancreas would remove us from the environment because it is the start of the process of artificial organs. This is to be expected because if it were invented, then it would lead to the invention of other artificial