Word: pancreases
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Insulin is a hormone made by specialized cells in the pancreas, whose job is to push glucose out of the blood into various cells in the body. Whenever the amount of glucose in the blood starts to rise, which happens just about whenever you eat, the pancreas pumps out more...
Here's where the difference between Type 1 and Type 2 is clearest. Type 1 diabetics have high glucose levels because their pancreas can no longer make insulin. By definition, Type 1 diabetics must eventually take insulin shots to get their diabetes under control. Type 2 diabetics can still make...
Any scientist who can figure out why Type 2 diabetics are insulin resistant will probably be a candidate for a Nobel Prize. It's not a simple consequence of being overweight. Many obese people are not insulin resistant, and not everyone who is insulin resistant is overweight. Researchers at the...
When health professionals talk about the growing diabetes epidemic, they are usually referring to Type 2 diabetes. But that doesn't mean that Type 1, which afflicts up to 1 million Americans, is under much better control. While both types of diabetes concern the relationship between insulin and glucose, there...
--SULFONYLUREAS These drugs activate the pancreas to release more insulin.