pancreas

What:

"Glucose is like the fire within you... The Pancreas is like an Air-Conditioner...
Insulin is like Cool Air...
Beta Cells are like Light Bulbs...
Carbohydrates are fuel for the fire..." The linked page is a highly metaphorical discussion of the human body.

Writer: Ellis Toussier-Ades Bigio-Antebi

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Date: Dec 29 2013 1:46 PM

What:

"We can use the analogy that the pancreas is like a building manager that uses a key (insulin) to unlock the building so that the employees (glucose) can go to work (enter the cells)."

Writer: Not Stated

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Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated

Date: Dec 29 2013 1:45 PM

What: "My pancreas is like a bad thermostat. When "normal" people start running/working out, their pancreas stops sending insulin so the sugar can be utilized by the muscle....." The link between a thermostat is a valid one. Most people understand how a thermostat works. It an electromechanical device that's sensitive to temperature changes. Likewise, the Pancreas is an organ that's sensitive to glucose fluctuations.

Writer: BAMArunner

LCC: RC

Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated

Date: Nov 27 2010 5:44 AM

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"My pancreas is like a bad boyfriend hanging around doing nothing, stressing me out, causing me to use drugs, and being an all around pain in the ass"

Writer: www.facebook.com/tayler.hackett

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Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated

Date: Dec 29 2013 1:43 PM

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"It is a testament to reliability that most adults do not know much about the pancreas. We don't simply because we don't have to. From the moment of birth, the pancreas is like a machine on autopilot - silently working in the background doing its job meal after meal, day after day. We may only have one pancreas, but it usually lasts a lifetime processing over 100,000 meals and rarely ever breaks down."

Writer: Not Stated

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Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated

Date: Dec 29 2013 1:34 PM

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"The pancreas is like a raisin-cake, with the Islets of Langerhans represented by the raisins."

Writer: t1wayne

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Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated

Date: Dec 29 2013 1:51 PM

What:

"The pancreas is like a tree, where the ducts are the branches, and the islets [of Langerhans] are like bird's nests," she says. "They don't communicate with the tree itself, but they have to have a tree to live." Those bird's nests, and the insulin-producing beta cells within them, are crucial to human health - when beta cells go awry, diabetes results."

Writer: Bridget Wagner

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Date: Dec 29 2013 2:01 PM