Margaret Cuomo

Learning that whole grains, legumes, fruits and vegetables can help prevent many cancers, including cancers of the prostate, breast, mouth, throat, esophagus, lung, colon, kidney, pancreas, thyroid, gallbladder, and probably other cancer types is a powerful lesson that can have a significant impact on children's lives.

American Celebrity

Sharon Jones

I was onstage one night and was singing. I hit one note, and I just doubled over. It was like being punched hard in the back. I couldn't put my back up on the plane seat because of the pain. I got massages, thinking it was muscle spasms. The doctor told me at the time that it was my pancreas. I didn't even know.

American Musician

Sara Pascoe

The pancreas releases insulin to make you ready for fight or flight when you're scared. So if you don't fight or flight - if you stay onstage, telling jokes - then your body stores more fat in your tummy which makes you insulin resistant. All comedians have fat bellies, even if they exercise.

English Comedian

Eric Topol

Seeing your glucose every minute on your phone, it really changes your lifestyle. You ask yourself, 'Do I really need that piece of cake? No, because I don't want to stress out my pancreas.

American Scientist

Tom Rath

I first found out I had cancer on my eye and lost an eye to this disease when I was 16, and I've since had cancer in my kidneys and pancreas and a host of other areas.

American Author

Frederick Banting

Diabetes mellitus is due to a deficiency of the internal secretion of the pancreas. The main principle of treatment is, therefore, to correct this deficiency.

Canadian Scientist

Jean Kerr

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

American Playwright

Michael E. Mann

We don't invent our natures. They're issued to us along with our lungs, our pancreas and everything else.

Marshall Brickman

I secrete jokes like the pancreas secretes... whatever the pancreas secretes.

American Writer

Patrick Soon-Shiong

The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.

South African Businessman

The pancreas is crucial for digestion and regulating blood sugar, implying health and vitality.

Vital Organ

Don't confuse the pancreas with the liver; both are involved in digestion but have different functions.

Not the Liver

The word 'pancreas' is a technical term, often used in medical contexts more than in daily conversation.

Medical Term

 its concepts have been put to use on tumors of the lungs, liver, and pancreas. Meanwhile, doctors are experimenting with using it to treat conditions such as Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, and obsessive compulsive disorder. The pain of a cancer diagnosis can be devastating, but advancements in these non-invasive procedures

Performing brain surgery...

 Now failure to produce enough insulin is incompatible with life. And insulin resistance, as its name suggests, is when your cells get increasingly resistant to the effect of insulin trying to do its job. Once you're insulin-resistant, you're on your way to getting diabetes, which is what happens when your pancreas

Peter Attia: What if...

 and turn back the clock and recreate stem cells from themselves and these cells have the property of pluripotency meaning they can develop into any cell type of the body so heart tissue Brighton tissue the beta cells of the pancreas bone tissue any cell type most people think of stem cells as a way

Turning back the clock...

 So when the snake bit its prey, this enzyme got into the animal's wound. And when this protein proved to have a harmful effect, and helped the snake catch more prey, it became favored. So now what was a gene in the pancreas makes a venom in the mouth that kills the snake's prey.

Where do genes come...

 they trigger the pancreas to release insulin. Insulin stimulates the body's fat cells to make another hormone called leptin. Leptin reacts with receptors on neuron populations in the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus has two sets of neurons important for our feeling of hunger.

How does your body know...

 where acid and gastric juices and enzymes further break the food down. The food then travels to the small intestine, where fats, proteins, carbohydrates and micronutrients are further broken down, with help from the pancreas, gallbladder, liver and the microbiome,

Why you shouldn't worry...

 others, only counterclockwise, and even though the human body looks pretty symmetrical on the outside, it's a different story on the inside. Most of your vital organs are arranged asymmetrically. The heart, stomach, spleen, and pancreas lie towards the left.

Why are human bodies...

 helps us understand something called insulin sensitivity. The more a given unit of insulin lowers blood sugar, the more sensitive you are to insulin. If insulin sensitivity goes down, that's known as insulin resistance. The pancreas still sends out insulin,

How do carbohydrates...

 That actually leads to a pretty crazy story about how clones are transforming sports and your life. Well, maybe not yet, but soon. So let's take a deeper look at how the polo G.O.A.T and the pancreas are linked.

The GOAT and the...

 that releases the nutrients from your food to help keep you in the best possible shape. The pancreas sits just behind your stomach, an appropriate home, as one of its jobs is to break down the food you eat.

Pancreas