Pancreas can you live without it?

Answer 1

Yes, you can live without your pancreas. Your body would stop making the regular amounts of insulin your body needs to live, so you would need to take insulin shots regularly. Also, your pancreas makes digestive enzymes that your stomach uses to help break down food to digest, so you would need to take some sort of aid to help digest your food.

Answer 2

yes! your pancreas is where insulin and glucagon are produced. insulin and glucagon help regulate your blood sugar. without your pancreas, these two hormones would not be produced. that is also why pancreas cancer is very dangerous.

Answer 3

The pancreas has two roles in the human body. The first function is to produce enzymes that break our food down small enough to be absorbed into our body. Secondly, it functions to produce the hormones insulin and glucagon.

Answer 4

The answer is NO, this is the main source for insulin, where it helps maintain your glucose level in your blood after you eat, and support by glucagon when you fasting.

Imagine you lived without pancreas, uncontrolled glucose level in your blood will cause

chaos for the whole circulatory system.

Answer 5

YES you can and you do not immediately become a type one diabetic if you have if you have a islet cell transfer...and I think before something like that is printed it should be researched. My son had a total pancreatectomy with islet cell transfer in 2002 and is still Diabetes free.

Answer 6

Yes, you can live if It doesn't produce enough insulin to break down the sugars in the body (diabetes). You'd just have to take insulin pills or shots until you could get a transplant. Good luck, the transplant list is long.