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The pancreas is an organ, deep in the stomach, that makes insulin to help control the amount of sugar in the blood. Diabetes happens when sugars build up in the blood if the body is not making enough insulin or doesn’t use its own insulin very well. In 1862, Georg Ebers found a document in an Egyptian grave that indicated the symptoms of diabetes have been around for about 35 centu