Sentences with phrase «needed by the pancreas»

Banting and Best did not foresee the extraordinary trouble caused by taking the hormone from an external source rather than having it secreted as needed by the pancreas.

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The injectable drug was inspired by the digestive system of the Gila monster, which needs to eat only three or four times a year; a chemical compound in the lizard's saliva called exendin - 4 seems to jump - start its pancreas after its multimonth fasts.

At one end of the spectrum, thick mucus derailed the function of the body: It blocked the pancreas from delivering enzymes needed for food digestion and absorption, resulting in malnutrition, and also caused severe lung infections, often killing children by age 5.

«In trials to date, users have been positive about how use of an artificial pancreas gives them «time off» or a «holiday» from their diabetes management, since the system is managing their blood sugar effectively without the need for constant monitoring by the user,» they say.

Reduction of post-prandial insulin needs by pectin as assessed by the artificial pancreas in insulin - dependent diabetics.

In type 2 diabetes, the pancreas is not attacked by the immune system, but either produces less insulin than is needed, or the body is unable to use the insulin the pancreas does produce.

When levels are too high, the pancreas signals to your liver (by using the blood's favorite gang sign, insulin) that it needs to convert the excess fructose into glycogen.

Understanding that because of your condition your risk of type II diabetes increase because the pancreas may not be producing as much insulin as you need but also knowing that insulin is an enzyme which is built by proteins and having to limit your fats, that leads toward more of the foods I just recommended, lean meats with many fruits and vegetables or a vegetarian / vegan diet.

Other studies have shown that soy protein is less effective for body builders than whey protein because its amino acids are more likely to go into splanchnic circulation (stomach, small intestines, colon, liver, pancreas and spleen) than into peripheral regions such as muscle tissues.4, 5 This makes sense because whey protein provides greater amounts of the branched chain amino acids (BCAAs) leucine, isoleucine and valine as well as more methionine and lysine, all of which are critically needed for muscle building.6 - 9 Researchers have also found the low BCAA content of soy protein adversely affects muscle building by disrupting both leucine signaling10 and the activation of myogenic translation initiation factors.

And trypsinogen is a prohormone that is also produced by the exocrine pancreas, and needed to create trypsin.

Supplementation of digestive enzymes: Enzymes to take the place of those not produced by the pancreas are needed at every single meal.

The most important therapeutic measure is to withhold all food, water and medications taken by mouth in order to reduce the need for the pancreas to work.

As the pancreas weakens, it can no longer produce the insulin needed to remove the excess blood glucose produced by the over consumption of starch.

So a doctor removes your pancreas, another independent variable, and that CA N'T cause diabetes whatever the evidence to the contrary????? That's plainly ridiculous - it's a straightforward logical fallacy to suggest that as something caused by W, X or Y, that Z, independently, can not, No science even needed.

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