What does the pancreas do?

2015-02-19

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Explore how the pancreas operates, and how this organ helps with digestion and controlling your sugar levels.

Beneath your ribs, you’ll find, among other things, the pancreas -- an organ that works a lot like a personal health coach. Emma Bryce explains how this organ controls your sugar levels and produces a special juice that releases the nutrients from your food to help keep you in the best possible shape.

Lesson by Emma Bryce, animation by Tremendousness.

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