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Your pancreas knows how much insulin it needs to secrete if you take additional insulin insulin receptors in fat cells will become less responsive to it, so your pancreas will need to secrete more for the same effect. This process is the begining of type 2 Diabetes. You would need to take additional insulin for a few weeks without any break for this to occure.

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