Trump asks whether he should be taking insulin despite not being diabetic [View all]
Source: USA Today
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump pondered on Tuesday whether he should be taking insulin, a hormone typically prescribed to diabetics, during an announcement for a plan which would aim to drastically reduce the price of insulin for people on Medicare.
"I don't use insulin," Trump said. "Should I be? Huh? I never thought about it. But I know a lot of people are very badly affected, right? Unbelievable."
In people with Type 1 diabetes, the pancreas can’t make insulin. Those with the condition require several doses of insulin a day.
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Asked later by a reporter why he would take insulin, Trump asked surgeon general Jerome Adams to answer, in which he explained to the president that, "Your body, Mr. President, actually makes insulin endogenously."
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