1.   You use insulin to store the excess sugar away until your blood sugar levels drop.

2.   Because the body cannot use insulin efficiently, the pancreas churns out more and more of it in an effort to keep blood sugar normal.

3.   But not long after that, if all goes well, new oral drugs could postpone or even prevent the need for some to use insulin.

4.   Diabetics either cannot make or cannot properly use insulin, a hormone produced in the pancreas.

5.   Insulin is used for food and energy regulations.

6.   The disease is marked by the inability to make or properly use insulin, a vital hormone needed in metabolizing sugar.

7.   The only negative, she said, is that the drug is injected, much the same way a diabetic uses insulin.

8.   Over time, the body loses the ability to use insulin properly.

9.   Pigs were chosen because diabetics for years used porcine insulin, which has just one amino acid different from human insulin.

10.   But never decide to use insulin based on a GlucoWatch reading without first double-checking with a fingerstick test, the FDA warned.