FOME STRESS E DROGA ....A DOENÇA COMO RUPTURA DE UM EQUILÍBRIO BIOLÓGICO UM LIVRO DO ESTADO MAIS QUE NOVO SOB A CHANCELA DE VEIGA DITO O SI MÃO.....O HOMEM ENFRENTA VÁRIOS PERIGOS (É UM LIVRO SEXISTA EM QUE AS RATAS NÃO TÊM POISO OU COISO,,,) MUITOS DELES RESULTAM DA EVOLUÇÃO MUITO RÁPIDA DA CIVILIZAÇÃO E CONSEQUENTE INCREMENTO DA TECNOLOGIA Drugs, Stress and Human Function" is written for non-major, general education courses in human biology. Based on the premise that students will most readily and effectively learn about what interests and relates to them, the book explores biology from the perspective of health-related issues and experiences that are relevant to all. Building on a nature versus nurture approach, the book presents an integrated view of all major organ systems and explains human biology using real and relevant topics, such as reproduction, stress, nutrition, aging, disease, and drugs. In contrast to many other textbooks in the field, "Drugs, Stress and Human Function" is written in a clear, concise manner, free of the scientific jargon that is often inaccessible to students. The material emphasizes how it works conveying important concepts in an understandable and meaningful way and using simple, straightforward illustrations to clarify information and enhance student learning. The book begins with an overview of the human body. Students then learn about biology at the molecular and cellular levels. Subsequent chapters move the study of biology from the minute to the experiential. The topics addressed include: - Barriers of the Body - The Brain - The Immune System - Infections and Cancer - Pain umans are living: First and foremost humans are living organisms. Although this may sound like an absurdly simple statement, “living” governs the rules by which every human must play by, or they die and become simple matter (molecules and atoms). The fact is, being alive takes a great deal of energy. The cardinal rule of life is that organizational energy (enthalpy) must be put into the system to maintain a bal - ance with the drive towards disorder (entropy) (Fig. 1.1). You, as a human, get this organizational energy that main - tains life by breaking down and processing food that you eat. However, the process of breaking down that food to form usable energy requires oxygen. Simply put, if you do not eat for a relatively short period of time, and you do not breathe for an even shorter period of time, you die. You die because humans produce almost all of their organizational energy by a process that uses oxygen to break down the molecules in food. Without usable energy, you are dead. All living organisms are made up of molecules, which themselves are formed from the fundamental building blocks of matter. These fundamental building blocks are called elements. The word atom means “one” of a particular element. You may remember having seen a periodic table of elements somewhere, especially if you’ve had a chemistry class. There are 92 different elements that exist naturally on earth, and a few dozen more that can be produced by man. Figure 1.1 - Living things must contantly expend energy to stay alive. 2 drugs, stress, and human function Some examples of different elements that you are probably familiar with include oxygen (O), carbon (C), and iron (Fe). These are the fundamental units of matter because you can’t chemically break them down into other things: in other words, they are the smallest individual units of which everything in our world (including humans) is made. Atoms of different elements interact to form larger structures called molecules Humans are a complex society of cells that must attempt to control virtually all aspects of the water environment around their cells. One of many aspects that must be controlled is temperature. Amphibians and reptiles (“cold-blooded animals”) simply find a place to wait out the cold periods and become hypothermic and dormant during the cold times. This greatly reduces their demand for high energy molecules and they let nature warm them back up. Of course this leads to a lot of down time, depending on the climate where they live. In many respects, the level of control sought by humans and other warm-blooded animals is the ultimate in environmental control. Warm-blooded animals like mammals and birds are metabolically free: they can control their internal temperature. However, it is expensive to be warm-blooded. Even among warm-blooded animals some in northern climes hedge their bets by being able to become hypothermic and hibernate. However, animals that are capable of becoming routinely hypother - mic and then warming themselves back upBesides temperature, virtually all aspects of the common water environment of the body, (the blood) must be controlled. The human body is a water based ecosystem in which virtually every aspect must be exquisitely con - trolled or the consequence is disease and death. At its most basic, blood is salt water, as is the environment in - side cells. As discussed above, when the compositions of two water environments sitting side by side are different, the natural drive for disorder is a strong force to make them identical in all regards. Maintaining any difference between the salt content of the water inside cells and the salt content of the general water environment is very expensive in terms of organizational energy. To minimize this problem, the cells of the body attempt to exquisitely control the salt concentration of the general water environmentan overview of the human body 11 Finally, “someone” must be in charge and coordinate the actions of the diverse collection of individuals that make up the society. This function is carried out by the central nervous system (Fig 1.10). There are priorities in the human body: In the society of cells that make up the human body, all groups of specialized cells are not treated equally. There is a prioritization in both the distribution of resources and protection from changes in the environment. The highest priority group of cells is the brain and the spinal cord. Collectively, the brain and spinal cord are referred to as the central nervous system. The central nervous system both controls virtually every aspect of the body’s internal function, and also its interaction with the external world around it. It is mainly the evolution of the central nervous system into the highly organized and complex structure that also makes humans different from other living organisms. The central nervous system is a highly organized collection of very specialized cells. Because of its organization and specialization, it has two very unique weaknesses. First, unlike liver, skin, and many other types of cells there is never a replacement of nerve cells. If a nerve cell dies for any reason, it and its function are gone forever. That is why if a person breaks his or her neck and kills a relatively few cells in the communication path to the rest of the body, much of the entire body may be paralyzed. In contrast, you can remove almost the entire liver and the cells will be replaced. The second unusual quality of the central nervous system is its dependence on the rest of the body to provide for its needs on a moment-to-moment basis. Unlike most types of cells, nerve cells store very little. If the delivery of molecules to the brain by the blood is disrupted for even a brief period of time, nerve cells begin to die

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of the general water environment goes up, the drive is to move water out of cells.