Essay On Homeostasis

Ever wonder why the body shivers when it gets cold? Homeostasis keeps body conditions steady and constant. So, this means that when the body shivers, that is homeostasis taking place trying to keep your body temperature at a constant degree. Homeostasis maintains normality in the body in many different ways. Some examples include osmoregulation, thermoregulation, chemical regulation, and behavioral homeostasis. While homeostasis controls these processes, homeostasis must also go through a separate process of its own in order for things like osmoregulation to be carried out. These “inner processes” are called negative and positive feedback. These processes will be explained in depth throughout the paper. Homeostasis uses negative and positive feedback when a sensor is alerted in the body. The sensors will alert the brain, and then the brain decides whether to activate either negative or positive feedback based on the situation it is trying to control. One process of homeostasis is called osmoregulation. Osmoregulation helps maintain a constant state in the body by cleaning out all of the extra
This process is the body trying to remain constant by altering the actions/ responses of the body due to its environment. Behavioral homeostasis is very similar to thermoregulation. Behavioral homeostasis performs much like a thermostat in a house would work. If the thermostat is set to a certain temperature, the air conditioner/ heater will come on and off based on whether the room needs to cool down or heat up in order to reach that steady temperature. For example, if a thermostat was set at a certain degrees and the temperature of the room was falling, the thermostat would turn the heat on until that constant, set temperature is maintained. If the temperature in the room began to rise, the thermostat would kick on the air conditioning unit until the room temperature was back down to the constant