Insulin

Insulin

Where is the pancreas located?

• The pancreas is a part of the digestive system
• It is located high up in your abdomen and lies across your body where your ribs meet at the bottom.
• It is shaped like a leaf, and it's about 6 inches long.
• The pancreas has two functions : It produces pancreatic digestive juices and it produces insulin and other digestive hormones.

Purpose for Insulin

Which gland controls insulin?

• Insulin is a hormone which plays a number of roles in the bodies metabolism.

• Insulin also regulates how the body uses and stores glucose and fats. Many of the body's cells rely on insulin to take glucose from the blood for energy.

• Insulin helps control blood glucose levels by signaling the liver and muscle fat cells to take in glucose from the blood. Insulin therefor helps cells to take in glucose to be used for energy.

• Insulin is produced in the PANCREAS, when protien is ingested insulin is released.

Hyposecretion

Hypersecretion

• Due to a lack of insulin from non fuctioning beta cells of the pancreatic islets, you could have type one or type two diabetes.

• Type one diabetes generally occurs in people younger then 20 years old, this is the consequence of an autoimmune destruction of islet beta cells.

• Type two diabetes usually occurs in people who are over the age of 40 and overweight.

• A tumor of the islet beta cells will cause an overproduction insulin.

• Some symptoms that go along with too much insulin in your body : anxiety, sweating, body tremors, elevated body temperature, disorientation, and the patient can go into insulin shock due to the overdose of insulin.