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homeostasis

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homeostasis

Any self-regulating process by which a biological or mechanical system maintains stability while adjusting to changing conditions. Systems in dynamic equilibrium reach a balance in which internal change continuously compensates for external change in a feedback control process to keep conditions relatively uniform. An example is temperature regulation—mechanically in a room by a thermostat or biologically in the body by a complex system controlled by the hypothalamus, which adjusts breathing and metabolic rates, blood-vessel dilation, and blood-sugar level in response to changes caused by factors including ambient temperature, hormones, and disease.


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This ability to recognize changes in the homeostasis of these ECP elements allows the man, through experience and practice, to develop ratio sets of these ECE For example, this provides detachment from emotions and thoughts when purely the behavior is desired, or stronger connection to the cognitive when fantasy is desired or required.
It is well established that many environmental contaminants can disrupt thyroid hormone (TH) homeostasis, which is vital during fetal development and for a variety of physiological processes in adults.
Instead of a lot of jargon about feedback and homeostasis and re-equilibration, he remarks that the interaction is a bit like the rock-scissors-paper game: "culture sustains institutions, institutions shape the economy, the economy recalibrates culture and so on and on.
 
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