The Function Of Pancreas & Pancreatitis – Dr. Berg on Pancreatic Insufficiency | DrEricBergDC

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hi guys I wanted to create a video on

some unique things about the pancreas

and its function and its malfunction

okay the pancreas is located underneath

the left ribcage it can also extend over

to the right a little bit but it has the

interesting dual function of being an

endocrine gland and an extra print gland

okay so it makes hormones and it can

make and secrete enzymes okay

so insulin you pretty much know what

that is it regulates the blood sugars

right at lowers the blood sugar glucagon

is a hormone that opposes insulin so

what happens this is triggered when

you’re not eating so it does the

opposite of insulin so it raises blood

sugar by mobilizing fat to keep your

blood Sugar’s level between meals okay

so and it’s also triggered by exercise

and consuming a moderate amount of

protein and also how it’s at one of the

fat burning hormones glucagon

but you know what insulin does now you

know what glue gun does enzymes every

time you eat the pancreas is a workhorse

to produce enzymes to help you digest

food especially if you’re consuming more

cooked foods or pasteurized foods things

like that because your body has to break

it down the enzyme lipase for example

works with bile to help break down fats

to the smallest particle so there’s a

lot of enzymes that your body makes one

is being called elastase which basically

is a protein enzyme that helps

specifically break down elastic fibers

like collagen facha cartilage that type

of thing and then you have bicarbonates

so bicarbonates are there to help

neutralize the acid coming down from the

stomach so it has a little tube and you

got the stomach you have the small

intestine so that acid coming down there

needs to be neutralized because you have

like between one and three very very

strong pH and you need to quickly chill

that out so that’s why your pancreas

makes the bicarbonates to neutralize the

acid coming in the small intestine okay

so there’s a condition called endocrine

pancreatic insufficiency okay that’s

basically when the pancreas stops making

enzymes alright so here are the symptoms

diarrhea

loss of appetite weight loss so then we

have stat areia which is basically your

body’s not breaking down fats so the

stool is oily and it leaves the little

skid mark in the toilet and it has a bad

odor okay and then you have gas

abdominal or stomach pain decrease

absorption the fat size of item ins and

it can affect blood sugars in other

words pancreatic insufficiency can cause

type 1 diabetes and even type 2 diabetes

because you’re decreasing the function

of the pancreas so what happens when you

have one part of the gland being

dysfunctional you’re gonna have the

other part too so when you no longer can

produce the enzymes you’re no longer

going to produce the hormones as well

okay now I want to talk about the causes

of periodic insufficiency so you have

cystic fibrosis which is an inherited

condition which basically starts really

blocking the function of different

organs of sinus lung liver and pancreas

so that would be one cause the next

cause would be something called chronic

pancreatitis so there’s this chronic

inflammatory condition of the pancreas

which could be caused from gall stones

because if you block that duck with the

gallstone and it backs up these enzymes

back up those enzymes are so powerful

especially the proteases they can start

dissolving creating inflammation and its

own gland okay so that would be one

cause or there can be a virus or an

autoimmune condition of the pancreas or

the person drinks a lot of alcohol

really destroys the pancreas or

high-fructose corn syrup

the liver dust doesn’t differentiate

between the effects of high fructose

corn syrup and alcohol they’re both very

very similar so consuming high fructose

corn syrup is like drinking alcohol as

far as the liver is concerned it creates

a lot of liver damage but it also has

something called a cytotoxic effect on

the cells of the pancreas that make

insulin okay in other words they kill

the beta cell they have the capacity to

actually kill the

make insulin and that is a link between

high fructose corn syrup and not just

pain chorionic insufficiency but

diabetes directly so there’s two

additional things that go even beyond

regular sugar high fructose corn syrup

which is a type of sugar or you can have

pancreatic insufficiency which is

another cause of diabetes so there is a

huge link between high fructose corn

syrup and diabetes

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