Tag: sodium
Doctor’s Diary: No Such Thing as a Coincidence
I find coincidences everywhere I look, all the time. Consider a simple blade of grass. One could write a long treatise about the simultaneous goings-on therein.
Water Is a Problem, and Your Body Has an Ingenious Solution
The sodium-potassium pump is an innovation that allows your cells to combat the forces of nature and in doing so, prevents disaster.
Let’s Think About a Zygote Like an Engineer
Actually, life is a series of millions of hard problems that have to be solved all the time, or else.
Liquid Harmony: How Our Bodies Manage Salt and Water
Left to their own devices, the laws of nature tend toward degradation and death, not life.
How We Balance Water and Sodium to Maintain Life
On their own, the laws of nature don’t tend toward life. To stay alive, living things utilize ingenious solutions.