After a meal the food we eat is broken down, and our blood sugar rises due to the carbohydrates. In order to evade serious problems such as kidney and cardiovascular damage, blood sugar levels have to be decreased and brought back to the set point of 70-110 mg per decilitre. Due to this increase in blood glucose, beta cells of the pancreas respond by secreting insulin. Insulin has numerous significant effects, it stimulates most body cells to increase their rate of glucose uptake from the blood, it also increases the cellular rate of glucose utilization as an energy source and it stimulates the liver cells, which responds to this increase in blood glucose by stopping the breakdown of glycogen (stored glucose) due to the drop in glucagon, most
