Insulin is an anabolic hormone, which allows the necessary supply of glucose in the process of energy consumption in the human body, being the key that opens the consumption of glucose, blood sugar in our body, converting it into pure energy. It is produced in the pancreas in function with the Betas cells that produce it, obtaining it from the products and foods consumed by the body and stored for later processing; use that is given when required. It is located in the abdomen surrounded by the liver, spleen, stomach, small intestine, and gallbladder.
Its functions are important for the human body, just like the animal, allowing liver and muscle cells to store glycogen, since it is an energy engine for the body and in its absence the body locates it in fats, which are the main source for getting the energy required to walk, eat and get up. Without this energy the body decreases its performance.
Insulin is released by beta cells and the so-called islets of Langerhans in two phases; one acts quickly, when the consumption of food increases the level of glucose in the blood, entering the beta cells; The other is slow and progressive, a product of what is formed in the verse, which acts independently of the amount of sugar found in the blood. Regulates metabolism, by controlling the hormones that generate hyperglycemia and keeping sugar levels low, stimulating lipogenesis, thus lowering lipolysis, and increasing amino acids in cells. It makes an important contribution to human growth from its gestation. The malfunction, the total absence or resistance of the organism of insulin in the human body, give way to a syndrome called Metabolic Syndrome, diabetes in its different types, obesity, Hypertension, Dyslipenia, polycystic ovaries, high blood sugar, high cholesterol, fatty liver, accumulation of abdominal fat, among others. The deterioration of the cells is progressive, decreasing the amount of this hormone, along with it the way to metabolize it, being the only way to sustain the body with treatment based on synthetic insulins.
