🔬 Medical science
The pancreas has two roles: it secretes digestive enzymes into the gut and produces hormones (insulin, glucagon) that regulate blood sugar. Pancreatitis is commonly caused by gallstones and alcohol; type 1 diabetes is autoimmune; pancreatic cancer is associated with smoking, genetics and chronic pancreatitis.
Diagnosis uses enzymes (lipase), glucose/HbA1c, autoantibodies and imaging.
🧩 The GNM model
Claimed conflict: GNM links the pancreatic glandular tissue to a "conflict with family members" (often an inheritance or money dispute), and ties the insulin-producing islet cells to "resistance" and "fear-disgust" conflicts said to underlie diabetes and hypoglycemia.
Germ layer & brain relay (GNM model): GNM classes the pancreatic acini as endoderm controlled from the brainstem and the islet (sugar) cells as ectoderm controlled from the cerebral cortex.
Two-phase course (claimed): GNM claims the glandular tissue proliferates in conflict activity and is broken down in healing, while the islet-cell "sugar" conflicts are said to alter insulin/glucagon output during the active phase.