What hormone regulates your blood sugar?

Answer 1

Every cell in your body requires a constant supply of glucose for energy. Since glucose is transported around the body to those cells, blood sugar levels in the blood need to be regulated. In fact, blood glucose needs to maintained within fairly strict limits because problems will result if those levels get too low (hypoglycaemia), or too high (hyperglycaemia). The control of blood sugar levels is determined by the hormones insulin and glucagon, which are secreted into the blood by the pancreas.

When blood sugar levels are too high, the pancreas secretes insulin, which makes cells in the Liver, Muscle, and Fat Tissue take up glucose (sugar) from the blood, and can be converted to glycogen, for storage. Converting glucose to glycogen lowers blood sugar levels, because glycogen does not affect blood sugar levels. Diabetes is when Insulin does not affect cells as much as it should do, and blood sugar stays high.

When the level of blood glucose is low, then glucagon is secreted from the pancreas, and the cells convert glycogen back into glucose.

If there are low amounts of both glucose and glycogen, glucose can be made from other substances in a process called gluconeogenesis.
Basically, insulin lowers your blood sugar level because it pulls the sugar out of the blood stream to provide nutrients to other organs and tissues in the body. It gets more complicated, but this should give you a general idea.

Answer 2

langahan islets secretes the insulin to convert blood sugar or sucrose into glycogen.Insulin lowers the body's blood sugar level; there are a number of glands and organs which work to process the body's glucose. There are various endocrine organs in the body that work together and produce hormones that play a role in regulating blood sugar. These glands are found in the pancreas, liver and some other organs; they regulate blood sugar levels. The hormones they produced normalize and regulate glucose levels. The pancreas and liver plays the biggest part in this process by forming glucagon which helps promote the breakdown of sugar and regulated blood levels.

Answer 3

When glucose (sugar) has been eaten and is digested, it is then absorbed into the blood stream. If there is enough sugar in the blood already, any extra sugar absorbed into the blood is converted to glycogen by insulin (a hormone from the pancreas) which stimulates the liver to convert extra sugar to glycogen and store it in the liver.

If the blood sugar level then goes below a critical level, another hormone stimulates the liver to release glucose (sugar) back into the blood.

If the glucose storage 'centre' in the liver is full, then extra glucose is converted into fat and stored around the body in special fat-storage cells.

The regulation of blood sugar in the body is an example of homeostasis.

Answer 4

digestive system,circulatory system,and endocrine system regulated the blood glucose in body.

Answer 5

Insulin.

You can think of insulin as a key that "unlocks" the cells in order to allow sugar to go into them.

Answer 6

Insulin and Glucagon

Answer 7

pancreas