Homeostatic Imbalances: Diabetes

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body's main source of fuel or energy. Just like your iPod needs a battery, your body need glucose to keep operating. Here's how your body should work if you didn't have diabetes. First you eat food. Second, you get glucose from the food you eat and that gets into the bloodstream. Third, your pancreas makes a hormone called insulin. Forth, the insulin helps the glucose get into the body's cells to feed them. Then last, your body gets the energy it needs.
The pancreas is a gland near your stomach that helps your body digest food. It also makes insulin. Insulin is like a key to help open the doors to your cells. It carries the glucose into the cells. The glucose can move out of the bloodstream and into the cells. But if someone has diabetes, the body either can't make insulin or the insulin doesn't work in the body the way it should. The glucose can't get into the cells normally, so the blood sugar level goes to high. Too much sugar in the bloodstream can make people ...

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