Nature has had to produce interesting solutions to maintain…
Nature has had to produce interesting solutions to maintain metabolic homeostasis: For example, when the beta cells of the pancreatic islets are stimulated to secrete insulin, there is a risk that the insulin could actually lead to reactive hypoglycemia and thus starve the brain (this actually happens when diabetes mellitus patients artificially inject too much insulin or inject in normal dose but just don’t eat sufficiently); there is also a risk when one eats a carbohydrate-free protein meal because amino acids stimulate insulin secretion the way carbohydrates do which (alone) means all of the glucose in the blood at the time would be up taken into cells that are insulin-sensitive during that meal, inducing hypoglycemia. With that, what do you recall nature’s solution to offset both these insulin-based effects are?
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