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Understanding Temperature: Cold-Blooded versus Warm-Blooded Animals

_{Howard Glicksman
April 30, 2016}

Conventional scientific wisdom says that warm-blooded animals evolved from cold-blooded ones.

Temperature Control: Too Hot, Too Cold, or Just Right?

_{Howard Glicksman
April 24, 2016}

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

_{Howard Glicksman
April 17, 2016}

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

_{Howard Glicksman
April 11, 2016}

The system our body uses to control its core temperature demonstrates irreducible complexity.

Thermoregulation and Thyroid Control: A Beautifully Irreducible System

_{Howard Glicksman
March 30, 2016}

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?

_{Howard Glicksman
March 23, 2016}

The body must follow the rules and keep its core temperature within a certain range to stay alive.

Diabetes: When Blood Glucose Control Fails

_{Howard Glicksman
March 9, 2016}

The body needs to know when to store glucose and when to release it.

Absorbing and Storing Energy: How the Body Controls Glucose

_{Howard Glicksman
March 2, 2016}

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

_{Howard Glicksman
February 26, 2016}

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

_{Howard Glicksman
February 21, 2016}

To digest and absorb life's necessary nutrients, the gastrointestinal system depends on many parts working together.

Immune Defense: How Antibodies Work

_{Howard Glicksman
February 16, 2016}

The proteins of the adaptive immune system work to help the body's immune defense with extra intelligence, firepower, and precision accuracy.

Another Layer of Defense: The Adaptive Immune System

_{Howard Glicksman
February 9, 2016}

Helping the rest of the immune system, the adaptive immune system brings extra intelligence, firepower, and precision accuracy to the field of battle.

The Body as a Battlefield: Proteins of the Innate Immune System

_{Howard Glicksman
February 3, 2016}

These proteins bring other immune cells to the field of battle, make neutrophils and macrophages more effective, and fight invading microbes.

Defending the Body: Neutrophils

_{Howard Glicksman
January 29, 2016}

It is the neutrophils that are the main defenders against infection.

The Immune System: The Body’s First Responders

_{Howard Glicksman
January 25, 2016}

In order to survive, the body needs a system that can detect and identify invaders.

The Immune System: An Army Inside You

_{Howard Glicksman
January 14, 2016}

Our immune system works like a military exercise where the enemy must be tracked down, identified, and destroyed.

Defending the City: The Body’s Two-Pronged Defense Strategy

_{Howard Glicksman
January 9, 2016}

Infections are possible in almost every organ of the body.

Hemostasis: Maintaining the Right Numbers Is Crucial

_{Howard Glicksman
January 5, 2016}

It takes imagination to believe that the ultra-complex and delicately balanced process of hemostasis came about by chance and the laws of nature alone.

Clotting: Controlling the System

_{Howard Glicksman
November 28, 2015}

If any one of the many clotting or anti-clotting factors were absent, life would be impossible.

How Clotting Factors Form a Fibrin Clot, Completing Hemostasis

_{Howard Glicksman
November 17, 2015}

Where do the fibrin strands come from?