Why Do Pancreas Produces Insulin

The pancreas produces insulin, which is a hormone and its essential role is to help transfer glucose or blood sugar to the cells so that they can change it into energy. When you have diabetes this process can either be non-existent or only produce a little amount of insulin. When your sugars or glucose is elevated it’s called hyperglycemia, when sugars are low it is called hypoglycemia.
I am the manager of a medical office, so I have performed a blood sugar prick before. When a diabetic or nurse perform a diabetic or sugar level test, they prick the finger and squeeze a small amount of blood on a test strip. This test strip can tell you what level of sugars you have in the body. Since diabetics pancreas’s either have no function or very little insulin, it is added in just the right amount to help the pancreas by substituting the insulin that brings the sugar levels back to normal.
When blood sugar levels get low, it is hard to function mentally. Thoughts and actions become delayed. It is hard to exercise when your mind feels clumsy. I have run eight marathons as a vegetarian, and going into ketosis isn’t an easy thing to deal with. Sometimes your brain is lacking any clarity, and even deciding to drink water or eat can make you become very irritable. Sugar is a tricky element, you need it to function, but too much of it will make you crash. …show more content…
Exercise is the best way to get your body back to functioning correctly. Your body is overwhelmed by the amount of weight and food you are consuming and your organs are MAD! When your organs become overwhelmed, that’s when problems start to happen and your body starts to fail. When your blood is not flowing correctly in your body, or the amount of sugar is taking over, a person can get gang green and start losing limbs or digits. They also can start getting cataracts or lose their eyesight, strokes or