Controlling blood

• What is homeostasis ?

  Maintenance of a constant internal environment
• How to increase blood glucose ?


  Eat/drink sugary foods
• How do decrease blood glucose?

  Exercise

  Respiring
• What does insulin do?

  Decreases blood glucose levels
• How does insulin move?

  Through the bloodstream

  Goes to target organs
• What are the target organs?

  Liver

  Muscle cells
• What does insulin do to glucose?

  Turns it into glycogen

  Liver stores it - levels back to normal