As you go along with me on a journey to learn more about
your essential organs in your body…..
today is the day to learn about your pancreas.
Yes, it’s the one and only.
It seems not that important – most people talk about heart and blood pressure.
You hear about it only if somebody mentions it in the news.
This little organ has a lot of work to do for you.
It’s located in the abdomen.
It plays an essential role in converting the food
we eat into fuel for the body’s cells.
The pancreas has two main functions: an exocrine function
that helps in digestion and an endocrine function that regulates blood sugar.
Exocrine glands in the pancreas produce enzymes important
to digestion of carbohydrates and break down fats.
When food enters the stomach these pancreatic juices are
released into a system of ducts that culminate in the main pancreatic duct.
The pancreatic duct joins the common bile duct to form
the Ampulla of Vater which is located at the first portion
of the small intestine, called the duodenum.
The common bile duct originates in the liver and gall bladder
and produces another important digestive juice called bile.
The pancreatic juices and bile that are released into
the duodenum help the body to digest fats, carbs and proteins.
Endocrine Function: the endocrine component of the pancreas
consists of islet cells that create and release
important hormones directly into the bloodstream.
Two of the main pancreatic hormones are insulin,
which acts to lower blood sugar and glucagon,
which acts to raise blood sugar.
Maintaining proper blood sugar levels is crucial
to the functioning of key organs including the brain,
liver and kidneys.
Pancreatic cancer takes 20 years to grow into detectable tumors.
Here’s what the scientists at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute found (and here’s
why this matters in a huge way to people interested in healthy living):
• It takes 11.7 years for one mutation in a pancreas cell to grow
into a “mature” pancreatic tumor (which might show up on a medical scan).
• it takes another 6.8 years for the pancreatic tumor to spread and
cause tumors to appear in other organs of the body.
In all, it takes about 20 years for a person to grow a cancer tumor
and see it spread to the point where their doctor
will diagnose them with pancreatic cancer.
In other words, by the time doctors diagnose you with cancer,
you’ve already been growing it for two decades.
You see nothing in our body is independent.
Every organ is depending on another.
The body is a harmonious living thing.
One organ goes out of whack and sure enough
another one will be affected.
Especially if they are so connected to each other.
Digestion will not work properly if you are
not feeding your body and your soul.
If you’ve been pursuing a lifestyle of junk foods, processed foods,
fried foods, excessive animal products and sun avoidance
(you’re not seriously still slapping sunscreen on your skin, are you?),
then you are probably growing cancer tumors in your body right now.
Almost as if you were trying to!
There is no way to know because cancer tumors or gallbladder stones
don’t show up in diagnostic tests when they’re only 10 years old (usually).
But if you’ve been following a cancer-promoting lifestyle,
you can rest assured you have micro tumors in your body that are growing.
I don’t want to scare you – but the most important thing
is to know and learn how to prevent it.
Tomorrow – I will let you know how you can prevent the disaster.
Eat healthy today!
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