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    The human body maintains homeostasis through feedback mechanisms. There are two types of feedback: positive reinforces the original action, while negative causes the system to stop or reverse the original action. The endocrine system uses hormones as chemical messengers to regulate functions like growth, metabolism and reproduction. Insulin is a key hormone that helps maintain blood sugar levels through a negative feedback loop, monitoring blood sugar levels and secreting insulin as needed to keep levels balanced.

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    The human body maintains homeostasis through feedback mechanisms. There are two types of feedback: positive reinforces the original action, while negative causes the system to stop or reverse the original action. The endocrine system uses hormones as chemical messengers to regulate functions like growth, metabolism and reproduction. Insulin is a key hormone that helps maintain blood sugar levels through a negative feedback loop, monitoring blood sugar levels and secreting insulin as needed to keep levels balanced.

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    The human body maintains homeostasis through feedback mechanisms. There are two types of feedback: positive reinforces the original action, while negative causes the system to stop or reverse the original action. The endocrine system uses hormones as chemical messengers to regulate functions like growth, metabolism and reproduction. Insulin is a key hormone that helps maintain blood sugar levels through a negative feedback loop, monitoring blood sugar levels and secreting insulin as needed to keep levels balanced.

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    2.1.

    3 Activity
    Introduction
    So far in this lesson, you have studied the connection between insulin and glucose and how the
    interaction of the two is related to diabetes. But how does your body monitor and control the level of
    sugar in your blood? The human body maintains homeostasis, a steady state, by monitoring
    changes in the internal and external environment and feeding this information back to the body so
    that it can make necessary change. The control of body temperature, heart rate, and the
    concentration of sugar in the blood are all regulated by these feedback mechanisms or feedback
    loops. There are actually two types of feedback mechanisms: negative feedback and positive
    feedback. In this instance, the terms positive and negative do not infer good or bad. Instead, the
    terms refer to the effect the input of information (feedback) has on the output (action) of the system.
    Positive feedback causes a reinforcement of the original action, so the input causes the reaction to
    increase. Negative feedback causes the system to stop doing the original action and to either take
    no action or to perform an opposite action.

    While our nervous system communicates using electrical signals, the bodys endocrine system uses
    chemical signals, called hormones, to regulate body functioning. Hormones are proteins involved in
    maintaining the bodys homeostasis. These chemical messengers carry signals from one cell to
    another and regulate many of the bodys functions, including growth and development, metabolism,
    and reproduction. Hormones are secreted by tissues in the body referred to asglands. Each
    hormone has a specific list of target tissues, and in many cases these include other endocrine
    glands. Hormones are a vital component of the bodys feedback system. Insulin is one of the key
    hormones that helps maintain a healthy blood sugar level.

    In this activity you will investigate feedback and feedback loops. Using knowledge of the
    insulin/glucose connection, diagram the specific steps in the body that function to keep blood sugar
    in balance.

    Feedback mechanism: a process that uses the conditions of one component to


    regulate the function of the other

    Temperature Concept Map:


    Insulin Concept Map:
    Conclusion Questions:
    1. Blood sugar is regulated by a negative feedback.
    2. You dont have insulin so there is not a balance of your blood sugar
    3. If she did not have insulin her blood sugar could have dropped to an
    unsafe level.

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