Sentences with phrase «production by the pancreas»

The elevation is caused by insulin resistance (decreased ability of the body to respond to insulin) and by decreased insulin production by the pancreas.

Many factors can affect and destroy insulin production by the pancreas, including Cushing's disease, steroid and immune system problems, pancreatic infection or stress - but often times a precipitating factor will never be identified for why the pancreas suddenly cease to produce insulin.

Diabetes is a common in cats and is a disease of glucose (blood sugar) regulation due to either lack of insulin production by the pancreas or lack of insulin effectiveness in the body.

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But that production stops after a meal, when insulin is released by the pancreas and performs its main task of removing sugar from the blood and shepherding the glucose to multiple types of cells that absorb it for energy.

Furthermore, fish oil doesn't only make cells more sensitive to insulin, it also reduces the production of insulin by the pancreas.

Sugar depletes testosterone by increasing blood glucose levels, causing the pancreas to produce more insulin, leading to insulin resistance which can inhibit testosterone production.

The body reacts by dropping the pancreas» production of insulin and increasing the hormone glucagon.

If the excess blood sugar isn't used, shortly thereafter our pancreas reacts to reduce the high the blood sugar by increasing production of insulin and stores the extra glucose as fat.

A variety of health conditions can adversely affect the body's ability to produce its own digestive enzymes resulting in production of poorly functional enzymes or diminished secretion of enzymes by the salivary glands, stomach or pancreas or reduced enzyme activity in the intestinal brush border.

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/magres/research/diabetes/documents/BantingDiabeticMed.pdf In the fasting state, you're not consuming any food to be converted to glucose, but your liver is constantly producing glucose in order to keep your body functioning, unless that production is suppressed by insulin, which your pancreas releases in either a small steady amount or a large amount in response to food.

Adrenaline, nor - adrenaline and cortisol are hormones which are secreted under stress, they impair the movement of food along the intestines, decrease blood flow to the intestines, impair digestion and absorption by suppressing the production of stomach acid as well as decreasing the production of insulin by the pancreas.

So developing fatty pancreas protects us by shutting down production.

A study from the Cleveland Clinic suggests gastric bypass surgery not only has the ability to help patients lose weight, but also to help the pancreas increase insulin production by five-fold.

It is caused by decreased insulin production in the pancreas or decreased response / sensitivity to insulin.

Diabetes is caused by the poor production or poor functioning of insulin, a hormone made by the pancreas.