{"id":123149,"date":"2021-05-28T20:15:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T03:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/the-biohacking-movement-and-open-source-insulin"},"modified":"2021-05-28T20:17:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T03:17:56","slug":"the-biohacking-movement-and-open-source-insulin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/the-biohacking-movement-and-open-source-insulin","title":{"rendered":"The Biohacking Movement And Open Source Insulin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-biohacking-movement-and-open-source-insulin.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In March of 2014, I knew my eight year old daughter was sick. Once borderline overweight, she was now skeletally thin and fading away from us. A pre-dawn ambulance ride to the hospital gave us the devastating news \u2013 our daughter had Type 1 diabetes, and would be dependent on insulin injections for the rest of her life.<\/p>\n<p>This news hit me particularly hard. I\u2019ve always been a preparedness-minded kind of guy, and I\u2019ve worked to free myself and my family from as many of the systems of support as possible. As I sat in the dark of the Pediatric ICU watching my daughter slowly come back to us, I contemplated how tied to the medical system I had just become. She was going to need a constant supply of expensive insulin, doled out by a medical insurance system that doesn\u2019t understand that a 90-day supply of life-saving medicine is a joke to a guy who stocks a year supply of toilet paper. Plus I had recently read an apocalyptic novel where a father watches his 12-year old diabetic daughter slip into a coma as the last of her now-unobtainable insulin went bad in an off-grid world. I swore to myself that I\u2019d never let this happen, and set about trying to find ways to make my own insulin, just in case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March of 2014, I knew my eight year old daughter was sick. Once borderline overweight, she was now skeletally thin and fading away from us. A pre-dawn ambulance ride to the hospital gave us the devastating news \u2013 our daughter had Type 1 diabetes, and would be dependent on insulin injections for the rest [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":630,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123150,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123149\/revisions\/123150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}