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Within this theme we will be looking in more detail at how our body works in maintaining glucose levels, what insulin is, how it acts and how it changes in people with different types of diabetes.

- T1: How the body decreases blood glucose concentrations after eating
- T2: How the body produces glucose when we are fasting
- T3: What is insulin?
- T4: How does it act?
- T5: How does insulin control key pathways?
- T6: How does insulin change in type 1 diabetes?
- T7: How does insulin action change in type 2 diabetes?
- T8: Why is insulin given to people with diabetes?
- T9: Other key hormones in control of glucose homeostasis