A covenant is a promise in a written contract or a deed of real property.
Adrenaline increases your heart rate, elevates your blood pressure and boosts energy supplies. Cortisol, the primary stress hormone, increases sugars (glucose) in the bloodstream, enhances your brain's use of glucose and increases the availability of substances that repair tissues. Cortisol also curbs functions that would be nonessential or detrimental in a fight-or-flight situation.
Glucose Homeostasis and Starvation. Glucose Homeostasis: the balance of insulin and glucagon to maintain blood glucose. Insulin: secreted by the pancreas in response to elevated blood glucose following a meal.Insulin lowers blood glucose by increasing glucose uptake in muscle and adipose tissue and by promoting glycolysis and glycogenesis in liver and muscle.nsulin: secreted by the pancreas in response to elevated blood glucose following a meal. Insulin lowers blood glucose by increasing glucose uptake in muscle and adipose tissue and by promoting glycolysis and glycogenesis in liver and muscle.