Tag: The Designed Body
Temperature Control: Too Hot, Too Cold, or Just Right?
The system that regulates our core temperature seems to naturally know how to get the job done.
Thyroid Function: When Real Numbers Don’t Add Up
The thyroid function of our earliest ancestors must have followed the Goldilocks principle by being just right so they could survive.
Keeping Cool, Warming Up: Appreciating the Body’s Temperature Control System
The system our body uses to control its core temperature demonstrates irreducible complexity.
Thermoregulation and Thyroid Control: A Beautifully Irreducible System
The body’s system to control thyroid function, plus basal metabolic rate, heat production at rest, and core temperature, seems to know what it is doing.
Temperature Control: Heat and Temperature — What’s the Difference?
The body must follow the rules and keep its core temperature within a certain range to stay alive.
Diabetes: When Blood Glucose Control Fails
The body needs to know when to store glucose and when to release it.
Absorbing and Storing Energy: How the Body Controls Glucose
Just like a car needs energy, in the form of gasoline, to run properly, the body needs the energy in glucose to survive.
The Digestive System: The Stomach and Beyond
The gastrointestinal system demonstrates irreducible complexity because every component has to be present for it to be able to do its job.
You Are What You Eat: The Beginnings of the Digestive Process
To digest and absorb life’s necessary nutrients, the gastrointestinal system depends on many parts working together.
Immune Defense: How Antibodies Work
The proteins of the adaptive immune system work to help the body’s immune defense with extra intelligence, firepower, and precision accuracy.