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What is the principle function of the hormone insulin?
Insulin controls the sugars in your body.Insulin is a hormone secreted by the beta cells of pancreas which regulates glucose levels (an increase in insulin lowers blood glucose). The pancreas senses the level of glucose in blood and secretes the amount of insulin accordingly.
How is it that the insulin stops working and or doesn't produce enough?
This question consists of two separate sections. The insulin made in a person's body may become less effective if a phenomenon known as insulin resistance develops. Genetic and environmental factors interact to make insulin less effective at the level of the cell membrane, so that excess fats and sugars in the blood are not used appropriately. The body's first response to insulin resistance is to produce more insulin in specialized areas of the pancreas known as beta cells. Over time, beta cells become less able to produce insulin, and blood sugars may continue to rise.
Which organelle, found in this plant cell, breaks down sugars for cellular energy?
The organelle responsible for breaking down sugars for cellular energy in plant cells is the mitochondria. Mitochondria are considered the powerhouse of the cell due to their role in producing ATP through cellular respiration, where sugars are broken down to release energy.
What hormone is secreted by the adrenal cortex necessary for the use of sugars fats and proteins?
Cortisol is the hormone secreted by the adrenal cortex that is necessary for the metabolism of sugars, fats, and proteins. Cortisol helps regulate blood sugar levels, metabolism, and immune responses in the body.
Is a sugars and oxygen in the muscles producing lactic acid physical or chemical change?
This is a chemical change.
What effect does hormone insulin have on our body after eating a meal that has cabohydrates?
Insulin handles the absorption of sugar. Carbohydrates are sugars.
Process of producing too much insulin?
If your body produces too much insulin, you are what they call Hypoglecimic. This is not diabetes. Diabetes is when your pancreas produces no insulin at all. Hypoglecimics just have to check their sugars (depending on how bad theirs is) and eat carbohydrates to keep their sugars up. Hope this helps.
What part of the digestive system produces insulin?
Insulin is not stored, the body makes it on demand. Also it is not part of the digestive system, rather it is a hormone regulating the amount of sugar in the blood (it does however kick in when you have eaten something). Insulin is made by the islets of Langerhans, which are the regions of the pancreas that contain its endocrine (i.e., hormone-producing) cells.
Does Sonia Sotomayor still have diabetes?
Yes. Sonia Sotomayor was diagnosed with Type I diabetes, an autoimmune disease that attacks the pancreas and destroys the body's insulin-producing cells, at age 8. In type I diabetes (formerly known as juvenile diabetes) the body stops producing the insulin hormone that converts sugars and starches into energy. Although it can be managed with diet, exercise and insulin injections, it does not remit like Type II diabetes sometimes does. Sotomayor's diabetes is reportedly well controlled, with A1C levels consistently under 6.5.
What does the insulin do?
regulate blood sugars
Why is whipped topping bad for you?
Whipped topping is not the healthiest thing to eat in large quantities because it contains simple sugars and fats. The simple sugars spike insulin, which is a storage hormone. When you combine this with the fat it contains, it can help cause obesity.
How does the body return the glucose level to normal?
Blood glucose is regulated with two hormones both produced in the pancreas:called insulin.the catabolic hormones glucagon, cortisol and catecholamines which increase blood glucose;the anabolic hormone insulin, which decreases blood glucoseIn diabetic individuals the pancreas has either ceased to function (Type 1 diabetes) or has decreased its output wth an associated failure of the cells to utilize the enzyme messages (Type 2 diabetes)
What happens if cells do not get insulin?
You would be unable to metabolize sugars and either die of starvation or cellular damage.
Which hormone level increases immediately after a meal?
Food has sugars and other minerals. Excess of Sugar shall increase diabetes. So to control this sugar immediately after a meal insulin is secreted. This is why people who have less insulin inject it right after a meal.
Why the pancreas is called heterocrine gland?
It is both an endocrine (gland that secretes hormones; insulin, glucagon, and somatostatin, among others...) and a digestive gland (breaks down sugars). Search Wikipedia for Pancreas and it'll give you the "details".
Why does diabetes affect the pancreas?
The beta cells in the Islets of Langerhans in the pancreas secrete insulin. Type I DM is caused by an autoimmune attack that destroys these cells. Sometimes people with chronic inflammation of the pancreas can also develop a type I type of diabetes.
How do you become a diabtic?
Diabetes is due to a deficiency of insulin or the inability to recognize/process insulin. Insulin breaks down sugar. Consuming excess amounts of sugar could lead to diabetes if you have trouble processing sugars.
