regulating blood glucose levels.

Question 1

what happens after eating something like a carbohydrate-rich meals

Answer 1

your blood glucose level will begin to rise.

Question 2

what happens when your blood glucose level begins to rise

Answer 2

alpha cells of pancreas stimulated to releases insulin into the blood.

Question 3

what should you do when your blood glucose levels rise.

Answer 3

insulin should be released or injected into yourself if you diabetic.

Question 4

what does the insulin do

Answer 4

1. body issues take more glucose.
2. liver takes up glucose and stores it as glycogen.

Question 5

what happens when the body tissues take up more glucose

Answer 5

your blood glucose level falls to a set point; stimulus for insulin release diminishes.

Question 6

what does it mean when your blood glucose level falls to a set point

Answer 6

your panaceas stops releasing insulin.

Question 7

what happens after you skip a meal

Answer 7

decline in your blood glucose level.

Question 8

what happens when you have a decline in your blood glucose level

Answer 8

beta cells of pancreas stimulated to release glucagon into the blood

Question 9

what happens when glucagon is released

Answer 9

the liver breaks down glycogen and releases glucose to the blood.

Question 10

what happens after glycogen has been broken down and glucose has been released

Answer 10

blood glucose levels return back to it’s set point; stimulus for glucagon release diminishes.

Question 11

what happens after your blood glucose levels return back to it’s set point.

Answer 11

your pancreas stops releasing glucagon.