Sending Goldfish into insulin shock and bringing him back

(For the record, this is NOT HARMFUL to the fish)

My sister is ateacher at a nursing school and she did an experiment where she popped a 27 cent goldfish into a jar with water and generic pet insulin to send him into insulin shock. This is where Sugar (the fish) is in the first minute of the video - notice how he starts to move irregularly. Once he is dumped into a different jar, this one with water and glucose tablets, he "comes back" and is perfectly fine again.

I am not, good at science, but it's something to do with the overabundance of insulin sucks the glucose out of his cells so his cells don't have the glucose they need to function properly and then obviously that's fixed when he's transferred to the glucose solution. It's akin to a diabetic person not having enough insulin - they have an attack, get shaky and sweaty, and need something sweet in them to make the symptoms go away because they need the glucose.

Long live Sugar the insulin fish.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• science
• biology
• chemistry
• nursing
• fish
• experiment
• diabetes
• diabetic
• glucose
• insulin
• goldfish

[vaultofknowledge]

Nothing happened

[fpgustavo]

Not harmful for the fish... Why don't you give one of your friends or even your grandmother an insuline shock and then dump the creature into a glucose tank to see what happens...

[AbyssalC]

In our experiment, we actually let the goldfish enter a state of seemingly dead before transferring him to the glucose solution.

[GearheadRomeo13]

whoa!