Personally, I am not about to take one single drug. I would exercise 12 hours per day if I had to avoid high blood pressure and high cholesterol drugs. Give me the needle any day any time over some kind of drug. Diabetes is about inadequate insulin, and it is that simple. Without insulin, you will have a whole body disease and a whole family disease. Inadequate insulin and high blood sugar causes behavioral problems, marrital problems, damages the bones, the brain the kidneys, the liver, the intestines, the thymus, the stomach, causes nerve damage and will even make the skin decay if the deficiency becomes great enough. Any body can treat their diabetes just like I do. However, must simply do not want to make an effort to do what I do. I inject Humalog every two hours and have done that for years, I exercise as much as 3 hours per day, take zero drugs and I don't give a crap what any doctor says about statin drugs and diabetes. As far as I am concerned that is just that -- crap. Here I am with cholesterol  bouncing around between 100 and 120 and they tell me I need statins. I don't think so. They tell me I need blood pressure meds to protect my kidneys. That is not true. Humalog insulin actually will stop hyperfiltration, the kidney disease of diabetics. Substantial research with rats has demonstrate that diabetic rats without insulin had enlarged kidneys and filtering tubes. Within a few days of insuin administration, the kidneys returned to normal. However, the diabetic can not escape the huge responsibility they are faced with and in my case shots every two hours. What is the big deal anyway. I carry my insulin in a purse every where I go and think of it as my portable but external pancreas. Treating my diabetes is so incredibly simple with only one type a short acting type. I know you will say everyone is different. With inadequate insulin, even for only 20 minutes, your liver will start producing excess fatty acids and release glycogen to raise the blood sugar. Essentially the liver goes crazy. So the insulin works sort of like a water faucet controlling the release of glycogen, and the neurons need a steady release of glycogen 24-7. I could write volumes and volumes of books on this very subject, but doctors who should no better, don't teach their diabetic patients the truth about how insulin works. Now I have been diabetic for 40 years and you should actually ask yourself how a person could be diabetic for 40 years has not kidney issues, has a genius level mental capacity, while many diabetics have impaired cognitive function, loves life, filled with incredible joy, energy has a resting heart rate of 45 beats per minute. Sure the heart rate rises with excitement just like anyone, but God designed men and women to work daily, and in modern society the most exercise most people do is pick up a spoon and stuff food in their mouths. Now 65 percent of my relatives have diabetes and I am the only one who lives healthy. Some say it is their choice, everyone has to die sometime, and I will just listen to my doctor. I watch and observe diabetics taking drugs, I watch them over the years get weaker and sicker. I know of some who have had multiple heart attacks from drug use. Yet insulin in the adequate supply will help the heart. When people have excess fatty acids, the heart uses fatty acids for fuel instead of glucose. Consequently the heart grows weaker.  I feel like Ayn Rand in that I hold the secrets to helping America's diabetics. But who am I? I do not wear a white coat so I am nothing. I am just a lowly diabetic who has no merit in the field of profits and keeping people sick to earn bigger profits. In fact, there has to be -- there has to be something wrong with if I have been diabetic for 40 years. I only seek to help and ask for no money, but money means more to the medical profession than good health.