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What chemical breaks down insulin?
Insulin needs potassium to get into the cells.Glucagon is needed to bring your sugar up.
What breaks down sugar in your body?
Insulin
Acid breaks down food were?
Acid breaks down the food in the stomach. Pepsin is the enzyme that breaks down the proteins from the food, in the stomach. Highly acidic pH helps to break down the food.
Can one live with partial pancreas?
The pancreas is what produces insulin in your body. Insulin is a chemical in your body that breaks down the sugars in the food you eat. A persons pancreas can shut down or not work properly, this is commonly associated with Diabetes. Diabetes is a health problem where the pancreas has either shut down or does not produce enough insulin to break down all the sugars. So the answer is yes, but you'd have to live on insulin shots or pills.
What kind of chemical is pepsin?
Pepsin is a digestive enzyme that breaks down proteins in the stomach. It is produced in the stomach and is essential for the digestion of food.
What breaks down food in your body?
Your stomach
What breaks down food?
the stomach
Is pepsin chemical or mechanical digestion?
Pepsin is an enzyme that plays a role in chemical digestion. It breaks down proteins into smaller peptides in the stomach.
Body chemical that breaks down food?
Enzyme is one of the body chemicals that break down food. It is ready in your saliva before you eat. Bile, or stomach acid also breaks down food during digestion.
Does the stomach perform both mechanical and chemical digestive processes?
the stomach does have both chemical and mechanical digestion. Mechanical-the walls of muscle in the stomach push food back and forth Chemical-digestive chemicals rain from try walls and breaks down big food molecules to smaller ones
What goes wrong in the body of a diabetic?
A diabetic cannot produce insulin - which is a natural chemical that breaks down sugars in food. The solution is to inject a synthetic form of insulin at regular intervals to maintain the body's natural balance.
What organs of digestion chemically digest food?
Stomach
