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Hi everyone thanks for tuning in to another episode of ask mark anything. My name is Herschel Perth

and I'm the doctor Hyman Plus Camille manager and I'm joined by Darcy Gross. Hi Darcy. Hi.

And she's one of the producers of the Long Jeopardy Roadmap Docu series and of course we're here with

our expert doctor Mark Hyman. Hi doctor Hyman. Hello everybody. Thanks for joining us today and so

we've collected all of the questions from our community and we're here to ask mark anything. So let's

go ahead and get started. So Dr. Hyman our first question is about the pancreas. What does it do

in our body? What's its function and what's the best way to have good pancreatic health? Great question.

Most people have no idea what it does. It's essentially an endocrine organ producing hormones

and an exocrine organ producing enzymes and other things we need to digest our food. So it's kind

of got a dual function. The endocrine part is producing insulin. There's beta cells in the pancreas

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