Maintaining internal environment

• Type 2 diabetes

  Caused by obesity. Can be controlled by healthy diet, exercise, losing weight

  Body doesn’t make enough insulin or cells stop responding to insluin produced by the pancreas
• Type 1 diabetes

  insulin has to be injected into the bloodstream, often after meal times

  Have to limit your intake of carbohydrate, as they cause a rapid increase in blood glucose
• What are the function of glycogen

  when blood glucose falls glycogen is made

  Glycogen stimulates liver to turn glycogen back into glucose
• What do insulin and glucagon control

  Blood glucose levels
• What are the functions of insulin

  Insulin Moves glucose from the blood into cells, to be used for respiration

  Excess glucose is converted into insoluble carbohydrates glycogen which is stored in the liver and muscles