I, uh I'm a diabetic.

This is a diabetic ulcer. It's tragic.

like stents and insulin pumps for the diabetic.

We can't keep blaming our overweight and diabetic patients

What I'm about to show you is a diabetic ulcer.

So what happens when a person gets a retinal degenerative disease like macular degeneration?

Giving vampire blood to Jason Stackhouse is like giving Ho Hos to a diabetic.

My data indicates that I've got about average risk for developing macular degeneration, a kind of blindness.

Every year, thousands of cochlear implants, diabetic pumps, pacemakers and defibrillators are being implanted in people.

In many forms of blindness, like retinitis pigmentosa, or macular degeneration, the photoreceptor cells have atrophied or been destroyed.

That night, I was taken into the emergency room and diagnosed as a type 1 diabetic in full blown ketoacidosis.

Plus having a plateful of daily greens will dramaticly lower your risk of cataracts and macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness in the U.S.

And she told me the nurses hadn't mentioned this that she was blind, that she had been completely blind from macular degeneration for five years.

If you were a diabetic and you didn't have money for insulin would you steal to get the money or just die?

I got paged by the E.R. around 2 in the morning to come and see a woman with a diabetic ulcer on her foot.

We can continue to eat that delicious, convenient, tasty processed food and watch ourselves and our children grow steadily more overweight, depressed and diabetic, or . . .

This is why one in three American children or one in two, if Afroamerican or Hispanic will become diabetic and obese as children or young adults.

I think a lot of times we hear about diabetics, diabetic ulcers, we just don't connect the ulcer with the eventual treatment, which is amputation, if you can't heal it.

We will now have a simple diabetic test strip that can detect your disease in 5 minutes for 3 cents, but also tell you how to optimally cure the disease and treat it.

There are 10 million people in the U.S. and many more worldwide who are blind or are facing blindness due to diseases of the retina, diseases like macular degeneration, and there's little that can be done for them.

So why was it that, just a few nights later, as I stood in that same E.R. and determined that my diabetic patient did indeed need an amputation, why did I hold her in such bitter contempt?

There are all other sorts of applications, merging your phone and diagnostics, for example measuring your blood glucose on your iPhone and sending that, potentially, to your physician so they can better understand and you can better understand your blood sugars as a diabetic.