Type I diabetes is an autoimmune disease where the body destroys pancreatic beta cells and cannot produce insulin. It is treated through lifelong insulin injections or pumps and blood glucose monitoring. Type II diabetes occurs when the body does not properly use insulin and is mainly treated through diet, exercise, and oral medications. Hormone therapy is used to treat various cancers like breast and prostate cancer and involves drugs that block hormones from fueling cancer growth.

1. Treatments of Diabetes

9. Growth Hormone- Alternate Uses -GH has been given to burn victims. The GH has been said to reduce the amount of protein breakdown. -Reverse aging effects possible: users experienced increased strength and slower degeneration of bone mass. -Controversial use in athletics.

10. Risks to GH -Nausea, headache, fluid retention, joint pains, carpal tunnel syndrome. May be linked to some cancers. Side effects supposedly minor and rare. Intersex Conditions -Klinefelter's syndrome (XXY) -Turner syndrome (“missing X chromosome”)

11. Melanin -Melanin is a skin pigment (colors hair, the iris of the eye and the skin) -In the skin, it helps to protect DNA in skin cells from dangerous UV radiation that is found in the sun's light -Melanomas (malignant tumor of melanocytes)

12. -Melanogensis is the process where more melanin is produced in response to DNA damages that are caused by radiation from the sun. -Negative feedback system -Ozone: molecule in the atmosphere which helps to protect the surface of the Earth by preventing UV radiation from reaching the surface and hurting organisms

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