This presentation provides an introduction to Diabetes.What is diabetes and what happens in the body? You will learn how diabetes is a term used to describe the body’s inability to produce sufficient amounts of insulin and how insulin as a pancreatic hormone functions as a main glucose regulator, that makes sure our glucose levels are balanced. Both high and low blood glucose levels are dangerous. When you have diabetes, the lack of insulin will cause high blood glucose levels, which slowly poisons parts of the body. Lecturers: Professor Steven Bloom & Professor Jens Juul Holst. Narrator: Richard Steed. Instructors: Assistant professor Nicolai J. Wewer Albrechtsen, Professor Signe Sørensen Torekov and professor Jens Juul Holst.