Why is the pancreas and liver so important in the digestive system?
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 at
4:13 pm
saraa. asked:
Why is the liver and pancreas so important in the digestive system. Also what substances they produce and can you please explain their function.
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Stage 4 Lung Cancer
The pancreas produces insulin, via the islets of langerhan cells. If it were not for Insulin, the body cells would be starving for glucose, the energy supplied by the digestive process.
The liver, among other functions, removes what we can not use after we eat or drink.
Stage 4 Lung Cancer
Hi, the goblet cells in the pancreas produce insulin as already mentioned and it also produces Glycagon. Insulin in the anabolic (building) anabolic compound which forces the carbs in your body to go into storage around key parts of your body like the liver e.t.c.
Glycagon does the opposite of insulin, being the catabolic (breakdown) compound. The key thing is that the pancreas senses the blood sugar level and reacts to control it by producing these chemcals accordingly….. Forms of diabetes (type 2 e.t.c.) are caused by abnormal or failed functions within the pancreas.