In a previous lesson we learned about hormones and their roles in regulating and maintaining important processes in our body. In this lesson you will learn about how your blood glucose level is regulated or controlled by two important hormones, insulin and glucose gone via negative feedback system. When you consume a meal it's high in carbohydrates such as rice, pasta and bread. This will cause your blood glucose level to increase. Carbohydrates are essentially long chains of repeating glucose monomer units, much like beads and anectlis. During digestion this is broken apart into glucose which is absorbed into our bloodstream. This increased blood glucose level causes a gland known as the pancreas to create a hormone called insulin. Remember that a gland to create hormones which act on specific target organs. In this case the target organ is your liver which is stimulated to convert glucose to glycogen. Glycogen is basically long multi branch chains of glucose monomers stored in liver and muscle cells. Insulin also causes your body cells to uptake or take in glucose. So this decreases your blood glucose level back to its optimal state. When this system is faulty this leads to a medical condition known as diabetes. If you want to learn more about diabetes this will be addressed in another video. The same response also occurs when you consume foods and drinks high in sugar such as sweets, cakes and fizzy drinks. When your blood glucose level drops such as when you are hungry the pancreas decrease a hormone called glucose. Like insulin the target organ for glucose is also the liver though it stimulates the opposite process to break down a glycogen into glucose. This increases your blood glucose level back to its optimal state. So to review insulin and glucose are two hormones released by the pancreas which act on the liver to regulate our blood glucose level.