Metabolic Health

Here’s How to Make Your Pancreas Healthier via Lifestyle Choices.

Pancreatic disorders are serious, causing mortality and suffering, but there are viable solutions to lower the risks of disorders.

Dr Mehmet Yildiz (Main)
EUPHORIA
Published in
9 min readJun 30, 2022

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The Importance of the Pancreas for Health

All organs play a critical role in our survival and prosperity. I write about them to create awareness and reduce associated risks with lifestyle changes.

Interestingly, the pancreas seems to have less attention in the literature than the brain, heart, liver, lungs, and kidneys.

However, like other organs, the pancreas plays a critical role in our health.

A damaged pancreas can cause serious health issues and even death. My goal is to create awareness of the health of the pancreas in this story.

The pancreas, considered a small organ (around six inches long), exists in the upper abdomen behind the stomach.

The pancreas has two critical functions for our health. For example, it creates hormones and enzymes essential for metabolism.

The enzymes created by the pancreas are essential for digesting food, especially…

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Dr Mehmet Yildiz (Main)
EUPHORIA

Scientist, Technologist, Inventor, focusing on HEALTH and JOY. Founder of ILLUMINATION, curating key messages for society. Connection: https://digitalmehmet.com