2006-10-02 02:06:21 · 5 answers · asked by Ronin 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Diabetes
Most of the tissue (by mass) in your body requires insulin to take sugar in, mostly muscle and fat. Nervous tissue can take sugar up without insulin, but that is not enough to keep levels down when either insulin levels are insufficient or your body develops resistance to the hormone.
2006-10-02 13:26:59 · answer #1 · answered by The Doc 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Insulin is a "helper" hormone. Glucose or sugar cannot enter a cell without an escort so to speak. Insulin is this helper or escort, it escorts the glucose into the cell. All cells in all organ systems need glucose since glucose is their fuel.
To answer below. You may be diabetic but you obviously do not understand how it works. The reason for checking the "sugar" or glucose is to monitor the levels in the bloodstream. This will tell the patient if more insulin is needed to get the glucose into the cells to feed them. All organs are made of cells that need this glucose fuel to survive. I seriously doubt you are a diabetic since you have to little knowledge on the subject.
2006-10-02 02:12:11 · answer #2 · answered by Tulip 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do not think that organs need insulin to transport sugar. If i remember right, insulin breaks down the sugar into glucose and helps turn it into ATP
2006-10-02 02:09:48 · answer #3 · answered by John Steigns 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
All tissues in your body require sugar, and insulin is what gets that sugar into your tissue cells, of every organ.
2006-10-02 13:24:21 · answer #4 · answered by RN806 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
insulins travels thro ur body in the blood stream not thro organs hence the reason that diabetics have to check their sugar levels by pricking their fingers making them bleed and putting it on a test strip.
2006-10-02 02:40:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋