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It is used to stimulates body cells to take up and use blood sugar?
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What hormone regulates your blood sugar?
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.
What is the body chemistry associated with insulin resistance?
High blood sugar from food stimulates the pancreas to secrete insulin into the blood. However, in insulin resistance, the insulin is secreted but is only partially absorbed by the tissues.
The first organ to respond to rise in glucose blood level?
pancreas
What carries nutrients to the body's cells?
Blood carries nutrients to the body's cells.
What carries oxygen to the cells of the body?
The heart pumps the blood around the body by contracting.
What effect does insulin have on sugar?
Insulin allows glucose(sugar) to enter the body's cells. Insulin also stimulates the liver to convert glucose to glycogen and store it for later use. The end effect is blood sugar is decreased.
How does the path of sugar to your body cells look like?
Depends on how you consume the sugar. Usually through blood cells, but sometimes the sugar enters straight to your cells. There is no definite answer.
Hypoxia stimulates kidney cells to release?
Hypoxia stimulates kidney cells to release erythropoietin, which is a hormone that regulates red blood cell production. Hypoxia is a condition where a part of the body or brain is not getting sufficient oxygen. When this condition occurs, there is an increase red blood cell production.
Where can you find C6H12O6 in your body?
this is the symbol equasion for glucose (sugar) it is carried around our body in the blood to our cells!
What hormone regulates your blood sugar?
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.
Where does insulin travel in the body?
To every cell in the body. It facilitates the introduction of sugar into the cell. Without enough, the sugar builds up in the blood ....too much, the sugar is rapidly used up and discarded, leaving you in a dangerously low Blood Glucose level and Sugar starved cells...especially brain cells.
What part of blood carries minerals vitamins sugar and other foods to the body's cells?
plasma.
What part of the blood carries minerals vitamin's sugar and other foods to the body cells?
plasma.
What part of blood carries minerals vitamins sugar and and other foods to the body cells?
plasma.
What part of the blood carries minerals vitamins sugar and other foods to the body's cells?
plasma.
What hormone helps body cells get sugar from blood?
Insulin, produced by the pancreas, enables the body to take up and use glucose sugar from the blood. Diabetics have an inability to take up glucose from the blood and can have high blood sugar, which is easily fixed by administering insulin.
Give an example of how homeostasis is maintained?
An example of homeostasis is regulating blood glucose concentration. The body does this as follows: If there is enough glucose in the blood, the hormone insulin (from the pancreas) stimulates the liver to store the extra (not needed at the time) glucose as glycogen. If the blood sugar gets low, another hormone stimulates the liver to release the glucose back into the blood. If the storage in the liver is full, glucose is converted into fat in special cells around the body.
