Homeostasis

• What is homeostasis?


  Homeostasis is the body's ability to maintain a stable internal environment despite external changes.
• The body has negative feedback systems to maintain homeostasis
• The endocrine system regulates hormones and glands throughout the body.
• What is the pituitary gland?


  master gland in the brain that controls most hormones
• Which organ monitors blood glucose concentration ?


  Pancreas
• What happens if blood glucose concentration is too high?


  Pancreas’s releases insulin which turns it into glucose to use later
• what causes type 1 diabetes?


  when pancreas’s produces little or no insulin
• What causes type 2 diabetes?


  Person becomes resistant to their own insulin. This is caused by obesity, poor diet and lack of exercise.
• Negative feedback is when your body counteracts a change to return the body to homeostasis