Andrew Huberman· PhD
there was this other hormone that comes from from the the — pancreas called glucagon right and so glucagon which also discovered in the 1920s glucagon is kind of the anti-insulin so — when blood sugar goes low glucagon is released in order to cause your liver to release glucose into the blood so glucose glucagon and insulins are these two opposing hormones glucagon was known for a long time but but people discovered in s of the 1980s that the glucagon Gene is expressed in other tissues other than the pancreas and it's differentially processed the protein is differentially processed to produce different hormones hormones other than glucagon and they discovered there was one in the intestine and so they called it glucagon like peptide because it came from the same gene but it's just slightly different it's cut up slightly differently and this hormone was an in creedon