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What Is Insulin? (Video)

Insulin is a hormone that helps sugar (glucose) get into all the cells in the body for energy. Insulin is made in the pancreas and released into the blood when the glucose level goes up. Without insulin, the sugar in blood would get too high.

What's Type 1 Diabetes? (Video)

Watch this video to see what happens inside the body when a person has type 1 diabetes.