which is the role of insullin in the human body ?

Question

and which is the substance which is doing the opposite?

Answer 1

Insulin does only two things in the body: It converts sugar into glycogen which is stored in the liver (about 48 hour's worth). And it converts the rest of the sugar in your blood into fat, which it stores inside of a vacuole in your cells.

Answer 2

sorry but i I just wanted to say what an idiot spirit of the radio is, is he that desperate for the two points that you have to abuse people??? Please ignore their comment if it's something you don't know then it's a valid Q and alot better then some of the rubbish you get on here.
Insulin, produced in the pancreas helps regulate carbohydrate metabolism ie break down glucose and has an affect on fat metabolism, assisting the liver. There isn't a substance as such doing the opposite it's just a case of sugars in insulin breaks them down

Answer 3

Insulin doesn't break down sugar it enables it to be used by your bodies cells - if you have diabetes you don't make insulin (type 1) so your body can't absorb glucose from your blood, this leads to high blood sugars. Taking insulin allows the sugar to be absorbed and your blood sugar lowers, but taking too much insulin makes your body absorb more of the sugar from your blood than it should and gives you a hypo. Sorry I don't know what the opporsite is.

Answer 4

In layman's terms, insulin enables glucose to be used by the body's cells. (Foods that you eat are broken down into simple sugars, one of which is glucose.)

The substance which does the opposite of insulin is glucagon.

Both substances are produced by the pancreas, and need to be kept in balance. Too much of one is regulated by a release of the other, unless, of course, the person is diabetic. In type 1 diabetics, an autoimmune disorder, the beta cells of the pancreas are destroyed by the body's own defences. This results in the diabetic patient needing insulin injections to enable carbohydrates to be utilised. For further information about the pancreas, please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancreas

Answer 5

All this talk of 'aura' in the human body is stuff and nonsense and a myth created by 'spiritualists' who postulate a 'spirit' which is superior to the 'body'.There is no logical proof of this. Man as is well known has evolved from monkey and if he has come up all the way it is not due to any spirit in him or over him or lighting his ways through the dark alleys of evolution with some 'aura'. He has come up by dint of reaction to the evens he was facing. He had gone wrong many a times. A line of humans which was shorter in height than the present evolved man but was physically more resembling the modern man existed in Africa has disappeared beyond a trace and its existence can be deduced only from bones excavated. This talk of soul,spirit,aura are all the outcome of the blinding of the vision of human beings who ,while they unconsciously reacted to situations wrongly and then retraced their steps and followed the correct path has given rise to such theories about a certain light(aura) outside our body but akin to it and which show man his way through the blind process and road of evolution.

Answer 6

Insulin is the polypeptide hormone released by the pancreas that regulates carbohydrate metabolism. The opposite of insulin is glucose.

Answer 7

Insulin helps your body flush out sugar and put it to use as a source of energy.

Answer 8

i can surely answer this because my dad has diabetes,insulin helps the body by keeping the blood sugar levels regulated and getting enough insulin into your blood sugar.

Answer 9

To measure the sugar intake. If someone has to much sugar or not enough sugar. Its use for diabetics.

Answer 10

insulin is to counteract sugar in the blood