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health articles 1141 [28501]What is the Importance of Insulin and Glucagon in Diabetes Hormones like glucagon and insulin regulate the level of sugar in your blood, thus avoiding diabetes. This two hormones are secreted by your pancreas and are the key in protecting you from diabetes. The most important thing to know in this case is that the production of these two hormones is the ultimate thing that protects us form diabetes or any other sugar related problems that you might suffer from. First let us talk about the first important hormone in avoiding diabetes; insulin. It is produced by the beta cells of your pancreas. What makes your body produce insulin is of course a high sugar level in your blood. Without the production of this hormone, you will suffer from diabetes. To protect you from diabetes, when the levels of glucose in your blood are high, the insulin produced is higher, and the other way around, thus doing everything it can to protect you from diabetes. Glucagon, the other hormone that fights against diabetes is produced by the alpha cells of your pancreas. This hormone works the other way around than insulin, because the both are very tighten up together in fitting against diabetes. So if you have a high level of glucose in your blood, than no glucagon will be produced, because at the same time insulin will do it s part in avoiding diabetes. On the other hand, if the levels are too low, glucagon is produced. What this hormone does in fighting against diabetes is to make your liver release all the glucose that it has stored. But this hormone does that, making sure that it does not increase the glucose in your blood, thus leading to diabetes. The normal level of glucose in a person that does not suffer from diabetes is somewhere between 70 to 100 mg/ dl. Any diabetes test should be taken after fasting, because right after you eat, you level of glucose tends to get a little bit higher, but that does not mean you have diabetes. Ins