What is Homeostasis?
Channel: Science Showcase
Date: 26/01/2017

Homeostasis is the ability of a living organism to regulate its internal conditions in spite of a changing external environment.

By David Faulkner, UC Berkeley

Original video: https://youtu.be/xvkZm417KgA

The study of perturbations in homeostasis can be approached from either angle: what is necessary to maintain it, or what is sufficient to disrupt it. The scientific disciplines which explore these two approaches are Nutrition and Toxicology, respectively. 

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