Homeostasis
The body’s active maintenance of a stable internal environment — temperature, pH, blood glucose, fluid and electrolyte balance, blood pressure, and more — through feedback loops coordinated by the nervous and endocrine systems. When homeostatic set-points drift, illness follows.
Body systems
Organs
Neurotransmitters
Books (10)
Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories
Genetic Homeostasis
Homeostasis
Internal Time: Chronobiology, Sleep, and Why You’re So Tired
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
The Body: A Guide for Occupants
The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
The Wisdom of the Body
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
Podcasts
- Huberman Lab
Stanford neuroscientist Andrew Huberman on physiology, stress, sleep, and self-regulation.
- The Autonomic Homeostasis Activation Podcast - Neuroscience • Emotional Resilience • Trauma Recovery
- The Drive (Peter Attia)
Deep dives into metabolism, longevity, and the systems that keep the body in balance.
Research (8)
- The Glutamate/GABA-Glutamine Cycle: Insights, Updates, and Advances Andersen (2025)
- Glutamate and GABA in Microglia-Neuron Cross-Talk in Alzheimer's Disease Czapski et al. (2021)
- Glutamate metabolism and recycling at the excitatory synapse in health and neurodegeneration Andersen et al. (2021)
- Glutaminases Márquez et al. (2016)
- Allostasis: A Model of Predictive Regulation Peter (2012)
- Stress and Disorders of the Stress System George (2009)
- The glutamate/GABA-glutamine cycle: aspects of transport, neurotransmitter homeostasis and ammonia transfer Bak et al. (2006)
- Organization for Physiological Homeostasis Walter (1929)
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