Insulin Production and Type1 Diabetes (Etsuko Uno and Drew Berry, wehi, 2009)

This animation illustrates how insulin is normally produced in the body and how its production is destroyed in type 1 diabetes. Approximately 25 million people worldwide, many of them children, suffer from this disease. There is currently no cure for diabetes and those affected with this disease must endure daily insulin injections for the duration of their lives. It is an autoimmune disease with a genetic factor, possibly triggered by a virus or other infection. It isnot caused by poor diet and lifestyle which are the main causes of type 2 diabetes. Taken from http://www.wehi.edu.au/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• insulin
• diabetes
• type 1
• type one
• medical
• computer animation

[spitoncat]

Thanks for uploading. This brings someone like myself a little closer to understanding the basics of insulin and diabetes.

[wasdom01]

@spitoncat You're welcome. WEHI has a great site too :).

[Le25Roy195]

The animation and narration are fantastic; however, the sound design is quite poor. Poor EQ, compression, and mixing make it difficult to hear the narration.

[Kevincentius]

Great video, so understandable!!

[benway15]

This animator , Drew Berry , is off the charts !! So good .

[rethna30]

This video is great!!!! And amazing sound effects...Really helpful to me...

[lifoest]

The sound effects in this are just fantastic :D