What does the pancreas do? - Emma Bryce
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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.
By imagining you are a morsel of food entering the digestive system, explain why pancreatic enzymes are so important for helping you achieve your goal of infiltrating the bloodstream with nutrients.
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Emma Bryce
- Director Bill Keaggy
- Artist Chris Roettger
- Animator Eric DeFord, Sol Lee, Janghun Lee
- Narrator Pen-Pen Chen
