Time for Stress
This hormone is also known as adrenaline and helps you respond quickly to stress.
What is epinephrine?
This hormone helps lower blood sugar by letting cells use glucose
What is insulin?
These cells in the pancreas make insulin
What are beta cells?
This type of diabetes is usually diagnosed in children?
What is Type 1 diabetes?
This Canadian scientist discovered insulin in 1921
Who is Frederick Banting?
This hormone raises your blood pressure by helping your kidneys hold onto salt and water
What is aldosterone?
This hormone raises blood sugar by telling the liver to release glucose
What is glucagon?
This organ helps regulate blood sugar levels by producing insulin and glucagon
What is the pancreas?
This modern device helps people with diabetes track their blood sugar levels
What is a blood glucose monitor?
This is the hormone that was first used to treat diabetes in the early 1920s.
What is insulin?
This is the "fight or flight" hormone released when you're scared
What is adrenaline?
This hormone helps increase your blood sugar during stress
What is cortisol?
These clusters of cells in the pancreas help control blood sugar
What are the islets of Langerhans?
This type of diabetes is often linked to being overweight
What is Type 2 diabetes?
Insulin was first successfully extracted from these animal organs
What are calves?
This is the part of the brain that signals the nervous system to release adrenaline
What is the Hypothalamus?
This condition means there’s too much sugar in the blood
What is hyperglycemia?
This hormone, made in the pancreas, raises blood sugar
What is glucagon?
What injection (purposed for diabetes use) is sometimes used as a weight-loss method?
What is ozempic?
This city in Canada is where insulin was first discovered
What is Toronto?